I believe he represented the Tea Party far more than Roberts did. If he hadn't then Roberts wouldn't be scrambling trying to win back their support.
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.
What Roberts did to Wolf is exactly what you just complained about: denegrating a man with name calling and all sorts of Democrat tactics. And in not a single ad that I'm aware of, and I live in the KC media market, did Roberts say what he stood for. It was all personal attacks on Wolf. So if that's the kind of tactics you're opposed to then you should be directing you ire towards Roberts as well.
But he didn't run a conservative campaign promoting conservative issues -- he ran as a mud slinging Democrat.
Roberts didn't either. And he still isn't. Now, I don't live in Kansas but I did for twenty-five years. Kansas didn't lose much when Wolfe lost.
Roberts is, as I've said time and again, the personification of everything that is wrong with the GOP establishment and everything that disgusts people about politicians. He has lost all touch and whatever interest he ever had in his constituency. He has an approval rating in that state that is lower than Obama's. He believes his Senate seat is his by divine right. If we do not begin to root out these dinosaurs now then when? If we do not begin to remake the GOP now then when? If we want something other than an endless progression of McCains and McConnells and Grahams and Cochrans then it's time for conservatives to send a message. Otherwise it will never change. And if the time for that message is not now then when?
“I believe he represented the Tea Party far more than Roberts did. If he hadn’t then Roberts wouldn’t be scrambling trying to win back their support.”
National Tea Party endorsements have poured in for Roberts, among them pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson and talk radio host Laura Ingraham.
Expected to roll through Kansas and endorse Roberts this month are Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky, as well as House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis.