And with a Roberts win the GOP establishment proves once again that they can ignore and belittle the Tea Party at will. So there is no use in trying to oppose or change them. The Tea Party will fade away. And we'll be stuck with an endless stream of McCains and McConnells and Cochrans and Roberts and Grahams and Alexanders now and in the future, because those are the types the establishment will prefer.
That is only if you believe that Wolfe was a true grass-roots guy that many in the Tea Party convinced to run under their banner. I never saw any evidence of that.
Wolfe was a conservative guy with an interest in getting into politics, who from what I say took up the mantle of the Tea Party and self-proclaimed himself "the Tea Party" candidate.
What happened next was even worse. He ran a campaign that denigrated a good conservative old-timer with name calling and all sorts of Democrat tactics and did very little to espouse and run on the sensible conservative issues that caused Tea Party activists to rise up and organize in the first place.
I'm not saying the guy was a fraud, because we had FR posters that knew him. But he didn't run a conservative campaign promoting conservative issues -- he ran as a mud slinging Democrat.
Now, I don't live in Kansas but I did for twenty-five years. Kansas didn't lose much when Wolfe lost.
If Roberts wins, KS will at least have a US senator with a long track record of opposing and voting against all BHO’s policies and SCOTUS appointments.
If Orman gets elected Reid and BHO get another rubber stamp-—coming from a very conservative state.
Do you actually think Orman would be a better senator than Roberts?