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.
He seems to have fundamental problems.
I agree.
My hope is that, if republicans control the senate, a few in the party — like Sessions and Cruz — will keep them from doing some really stupid things. If Obama has control of the senate, that hope is diminished.
Except, of course, no one ever said that. How's that reading comprehension coming?