For those who say I don’t know Roberts voting record, here it is. Quite the consistent conservative isn’t he??
Roberts (KS) - 2013 - 87% (Average) - 90% (Heritage) - 84% (CFG) - 84% (ACU) - 91% (FreedomWorks)
Roberts (KS) - 2012 - 62% (Average) - 65% (Heritage) - 55% (CFG) - 72% (ACU) - 54% (FreedomWorks)
Roberts (KS) - 2011 - 74% (Average) - - 78% (CFG) - 80% (ACU) - 65% (FreedomWorks)
Roberts (KS) - 2010 - 93% (Average) - - 93% (CFG) - 96% (ACU) - 91% (FreedomWorks)
Roberts (KS) - 2009 - 87% (Average) - - 93% (CFG) - 96% (ACU) - 77% (FreedomWorks)
Roberts (KS) - 2008 - 69% (Average) - - 77% (CFG) - 72% (ACU) - 57% (FreedomWorks)
Roberts (KS) - 2007 - 66% (Average) - - 57% (CFG) - 92% (ACU) - 50% (FreedomWorks)
Roberts (KS) - 2006 - 69% (Average) - - 57% (CFG) - 84% (ACU) - 67% (FreedomWorks)
Roberts (KS) - 2005 - 81% (Average) - - 76% (CFG) - 88% (ACU) - 79% (FreedomWorks)
But I’m just a Massachusetts liberal trying to remove conservative senators, right?? What I’m really trying to do is identify the Orrin Hatch types, those that vote conservative around election years, then screw us over when safely reelected, or that because they’re in their late 70’s and will likely be in their last term, and will be free to screw us over. We need to remove as many of these people when we have the chance, that is, at election time. And there’s only two chances left, Roberts and Alexander, on August 5th and August 7th.
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The key point is that if he’s elected, it’ll be his last term..and thus he has NO, ZERO, NADA, accountability to the voters for his actions, and votes, the next 6 years....
Pat Roberts has a good constituent services operation, so he has a number of supporters who believe that he does a good job for Kansas. The people that he really takes care of are in the big Agri businesses and the aviation industry. They have lobby operations in D.C., so he actually knows them. Since he doesn’t live in Kansas and hasn’t since 1957, he doesn’t know too many of us who do.
To me, these so-called conservative ratings charts don’t tell me anything if they do not include the difference between CLOTURE VOTES and floor SHOW VOTES. This is a constant trick and I’m not sure that these ratings organizations are getting the whole story.
The problem is you can’t beat something with nothing. And Milt Wolf has proven to be an inept campaigner and no threat to Roberts.
Roberts last ran in 2008. If you look at his ratings you see he wasn't doing what you say around election years. His most conservative ratings are after the election years. Also farm state Senators get dinged on these ratings for representing the issues of their constituents. These ratings are based on percentage of votes that agree or disagree with the rater's agenda. There are votes that are vastly more important than others an that is not taken into consideration.
It is kind of like Obama's claim that he signed less executive orders than Bush. That may be true, but the effect of those EO's is tremendous.