Comments on: Panel of Pat Roberts endorsers finds Pat Roberts is Kansas resident

By: Estragon

Estragon — Sun, 25 May 2014 01:01:02 +0000

Pat Roberts has a lifetime rating of 86.40 from the ACU.

If you think it is important to unseat him, you are definitely out on the lunatic fringe.

Again, the problem with all these so-called “tea party candidates” (I don’t recall being asked to vote on any of them, so it seems just asserting the title is enough) is lack of proper vetting. Fox, for example, posted patients’ x-rays on Facebook without permission. They weren’t identified by name, but if you think that’s okay, well . . .

And his tactic seems to have been the Obama Plan – disqualify your opponents from the ballot. But hey, that’s okay, ’cause he’s “tea party,” right?

Let’s review this “revolution” so far: in six years and three cycles so far, exactly two GOP incumbent Senators have lost primaries – but only Lugar was unseated, because Murkowski won as a write-in over the inept Joe Miller.

At this rate, it has been calculated you will unseat all 47 incumbent Republicans in only 282 years!

So I guess you could say you are in it for the long haul, then?

By: Subotai Bahadur

Subotai Bahadur — Sat, 24 May 2014 21:08:32 +0000

In the 1980’s my family was flying back from Ohio [Columbus, Ohio-Chicago-Denver] where we had gotten my father settled in a hospital after what turned out to be his final heart attack. We were flying as cheap as possible. On the leg from Chicago, sitting right behind us was Mike Strang [R CO-3] who was my Congressman. He flew home every weekend to his ranch in the mountains west of us. I feel kinda sorry for him, because I had him cornered for a couple of hours and as you may have gathered; I am a wordy and opinionated bugger. But until Mike retired, he was both one helluva good Representative and an old line rancher. He knew what his people wanted and thought because unlike modern Congress-critters he lived among them.

As far as Pat Roberts is concerned, it is merely the Republican version of John Conyers in Detroit. Conyers failed to meet the petitioning qualifications to get on the ballot [after doing it every election for 50 years]. A Federal judge appointed by Obama literally a couple of months ago ruled that forcing a petition carrier to be a registered voter violated the carrier’s civil rights [two of Conyer’s carriers were unregistered convicted felons …. who were wanted again], and that so long as the candidate “had good faith” when gathering signatures, the letter of the law did not apply.

We live in a banana republic where the Nomenklatura, regardless of which wing of the Governing Party they belong to, are above the laws that we serfs must obey.

By: legacyrepublican

legacyrepublican — Sat, 24 May 2014 18:11:54 +0000

About ten years ago, my wife and I took a brief flight to Tucson from Dallas to meet up with friends.

On that plane was the Republican representing part of the Tucson metropolitan area. He was flying coach.

We found out that he made that trip every week, flew coach, and had a car at the airport. He drove himself home.

He has since retired.

But, guess what we thought of his qualifications to represent his district.