Attacks from the right often weaken a sure bet. I believe Roberts would have been a sure bet if not weakened by the right. Sort of like what Pat Buchanan did to George H.W. Bush that helped Clinton get elected. I’ve seen it happen other places too.
It just seems to me that the right would have higher priorities to target than someone like Roberts. Yeah, I know he runs with some dirtbags but that can be said for most anyone in politics.
That all said, I don’t live anywhere near Kansas (I did live there about 25 years ago) so I don’t know all the particulars. Either way, I just hope Obama doesn’t control the senate his last two years. He’s that dangerous.
Fair enough. Let Roberts win under his own power. If he’s as great as his supporters here say, why wouldn’t he win in a walk?
While I understand your argument, I’m not willing to leave the field open to incumbents on the strength of it. Incumbency is incredibly powerful. If they haven’t easily earned the goodwill and support of their party and general election voters, then there is something fundamentally wrong with how they represent their state.
So, no attack from the right should be sufficient to weaken a good conservative candidate (especially in Kansas) as far as it has Roberts. He seems to have fundamental problems. I’ll purely guess that part of it has to do with the distasteful intervention of the NRSC.