Yeah, I’ve actually looked at his record. He’s never been on the “far left” in his career. You want real liberal or hard left ? Look at his two RINO predecessors, Nancy Kassebaum and Jim Pearson, the latter of which (despite being a Republican) voted almost like Ted Kennedy. Roberts is the most Conservative Senator in that seat in over a half-century, and he’s more Conservative than the junior Senator, Jerry Moran (whom I trust will receive the full-on blitz from you guys in 2016, yes ?).
You’ve ignored everything I’ve said about Wolf. You don’t know anything about the man beyond campaign promises, which are worthless these days. You don’t know who he is, what he is or how he’d vote. It’s all naïve hope and blind faith. He could be another Pearson, a REAL Socialist, and you’d be stuck with that until January 2021. Fortunately, that won’t happen.
The only thing about Roberts that I recall is that he was being "played" by Jay Rockefeller on the Senate Select Intelligence Committee during the Bush administration in what became known as "memogate."
Rockefeller authored the famous "pull the trigger" memo that was found by staffer Manuel Miranda that laid out the Democrat strategy of using their minority powers to tie up the committee in fishing expeditions to gather data on Bush. Roberts was willfully ignorant that the Democrats would be secretly trying to undermine his "bipartisan" committee that he was so proud the chair.
Eventually, Orrin Hatch caved to Democrat pressure and had Miranda fired for discovering the memo in an unsecured shared committee server, rather than using the contents of the memo to question the Democrats' behavior. It was yet another example of how Democrats pressure Republicans into not playing strong cards that are dealt to them.
-PJ