Ted Cruz to campaign for Pat Roberts

Washington Post ^ | 10/06/2014 | Sean Sullivan

[GIdget2004]

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) will campaign for Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) later this week, Roberts's campaign announced Monday. The tea party star becomes the latest well-known Republican to join the effort to rescue Roberts, who polls show is trailing independent candidate Greg Orman.

The Texas senator will help launch a Roberts campaign bus tour on Thursday. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) will also join the effort.

"To stop the liberal Harry Reid-Barack Obama agenda, we must win the Senate Majority – and we can’t do that without Pat Roberts back in the Senate," Cruz said in a statement.

An NBC News/Marist poll released Sunday showed Roberts trailing Orman by 10 points. Orman has not said which party he would caucus with if the majority comes down to him.

[Uncle Miltie]

My point is that Amnesty has an absolute majority in Congress, between Democrats (100%) and the GOPe (some middling fraction).

The power of those caucuses means we can’t discount the possibility of Amnesty passing, either with or without a Republican majority.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Yeah, I noticed the pharisees have been quiet since Palin and Cruz went to Kansas.

wonder why???

[C. Edmund Wright]

If he’s as great as his supporters here say, why wouldn’t he win in a walk?

Except, of course, no one ever said that. How's that reading comprehension coming?

[Lakeshark]

Moping or saying whuuuuut is obviously one of the ways of coping with cognitive dissonance.......

Frankly, I think a lot of these people are Axelrod plants, the rest are quite honestly dumber than even the GOPe........and that's about as far up the dumb scale you can get.

There are about fifty or so of them here all the time, day in and day out, and they are loud.

[laplata]

Which, if any, republican senators are acceptable to you?

[laplata]

Good points.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Which, if any, republican senators are acceptable to you?”

No no no... Not going there. My point is right now, I will take as many as possible to get the majority. I only want McConnel to lose.

Several years back on this site, I said I was 99% Conservative. I was called a liberal. I could only assume by that is the same would apply to our political candidates.

[laplata]

I understand.

[citizen]

And yet, some around here will continue to say Roberts should lose........

You know....for some time now, I have been beginning to believe that all these "I'll-never-vote-for....!" loudmouths are actually well-established lib trolls who are here to disrupt and try to keep good Repubs from winning in the general elections. I mean, it's the same crew showing up on every thread, like here for Roberts, posting the same type of garbage and I'm afraid they are actually harming the conservative brand.

Even though the possibly may be remote [or not] just imagine, if they were to actually succeed in damaging Roberts with the general Kansas voting public and therefore boosting that liberal "independent", that one senate seat might save Harry Reid's Leader position just like they saved 0bama's narrow azz in 2012.

[citizen]

Let me amend the above by saying “some of these” rather than “all of these.”

[laplata]

You know....for some time now, I have been beginning to believe that all these “I’ll-never-vote-for....!” loudmouths are actually well-established lib trolls who are here to disrupt and try to keep good Repubs from winning in the general elections. I mean, it’s the same crew showing up on every thread, like here for Roberts, posting the same type of garbage and I’m afraid they are actually harming the conservative brand.

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You are correct, IMO. Infiltrators.

[C. Edmund Wright]

I think some might be liberal trolls, but there are some conservative Freepers on here who hate Mitt Romney more than they hate Obama - who are foolish enough to think that a vote is some kind of statement of punishing the establishment - and who will have no part of an intelligent discussion on when the Republic is better served by sending a message, or better served by simply voting the Democrat out of office.

That are the irrational pharisees.

[laplata]

Well put.

[deport]

This is why many are heading to Kansas.
Some include Dole, Palin, McCain, Cruz, Paul, Ryan, and others.

Kansas Senate Polling Data

Poll	Date	Sample	MoE	Orman (I)	Roberts (R)	Spread
RCP Average	9/14 - 10/1	--	--	45.4	40.2	Orman +5.2
NBC News/Marist*	9/27 - 10/1	636 LV	3.9	48	38	Orman +10
CBS News/NYT/YouGov*	9/20 - 10/1	2013 LV	3.0	40	40	Tie
USA Today/Suffolk*	9/27 - 9/30	500 LV	4.4	46	41	Orman +5
Rasmussen Reports**	9/16 - 9/17	750 LV	4.0	45	40	Orman +5
FOX News	9/14 - 9/16	604 LV	4.0	48	42	Orman +6

[CommerceComet]

"The NRSC sent six workers to the Kansas City area for the final 10 days, and they knocked on more than 10,000 doors in Johnson County alone, a party official said. A Washington phone bank set up by the NRSC also made more than 40,000 phone calls in the final three weeks."

That's not exactly a scorched earth campaign by the GOPe. Over 250,000 people voted in the Republican primary. Six people for 10 days and 40,000 calls, most of which probably go unanswered due to caller ID, isn't a shock and awe type blitzkrieg.

Besides if Milton Wolf would have made a persuasive case, this final activity by Roberts wouldn't have mattered. Most of the TEA Party people I know didn't vote for Wolf because they weren't sure whether he was a true conservative or not. There was a level of distrust which would have eliminated if Wolf had run an effective campaign.

[CommerceComet]

I would view the top two polls as outliers. It looks like Orman has about a 5-point lead which could easily evaporate as people begin to learn more about him.

[Uncle Miltie]

Dang, you can’t read well, can you.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Not a single person - unless they’ve done it in last couple hours, said roberts was “that great.”

Your imagination exceeds your comprehension.

[laplata]

ping

[Uncle Miltie]

Pound sand.