It's SIMPLE.
- Vote AGAINST "ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS" !
- Vote FOR REAL CONSERVATIVE "Tea Party Candidates" !
Posted on 10/13/2014 7:43:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A national tea party group will hold a news conference in Wichita on Monday with U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, but leaders stopped short of saying whether the group plans to endorse the Republican incumbent.
“It will be an announcement,” said Taylor Budowich, executive director of the Tea Party Express, a California-based group that describes itself as the nation’s largest tea party political action committee.
The news conference, set for 11 a.m. at the Sedgwick County Republican party headquarters in west Wichita, will be attended by Roberts and local tea party leaders and activists, Budowich said.
Earlier this year the group endorsed physician Milton Wolf in his bid to unseat the three-term senator in the state’s Republican primary....
(Excerpt) Read more at kansas.com ...
Just go ahead and endorse him
They heard the conductor shouting, “all aboard”, as the train let go the brakes.
I doubt they are going to stand up there and say: he’s a bum, don’t vote for him!
Where is Dr. Wolf?
Back in the day, after a primary was over, you shook hands with the winner and supported him enthusiastically in the general election.
I guess times have changed.
They have indeed. We have an issue right now with a Republican state rep who started exhibiting the tell-tale signs of RINO-ism. He was challenged & beaten in the primary. Now he’s signed on to a write-in campaign on his behalf.
Every county organization should be requiring candidates to commit to endorsing the winner. Otherwise, no party support. We have to stop our own people from sabotaging us.
Back in the day you didn't try and destroy your opponent personally and professionally. Or do you really think the investigation by the Kansas Medical Ethics Board of Milton Wolf over that Facebook post is just coincidental?
Matt Bevin isn't endorsing Mitch McConnell. I highly doubt that Chris McDaniel will ever endorse Thad Cochran. I don't expect Milton Wolf to endorse Pat Roberts. And can you blame any of them for not doing so?
Lots of people trying to drag Roberts across the line as the winner.
Palin
McCain
Cruz
Dole
Paul
Ryan
Gingrich
Huckabee
http://www.robertsforsenate.com/index.cfm/endorsements#ddc69d43-8127-49ea-850b-a74baade94f0
nope.
The GOPe is no friend of conservatives, why should we be friendly to them?
Roberts is not Thad Cochran
Yes I can and I do blame them.
The first campaign I ever volunteered was back in 1976 when RR ran against Jerry Ford in the primaries. I was a volunteered for RR in the primaries. After RR lost, he endorsed Ford and campaigned for him in the general election.
Call me old fashioned if you like, but I expect that in every race.
The Dems have fierce primary battles too. But after the primary is over, they always circle wagons around the party nominee.
Ego maniac - You Betcha!!!!
Stick a fork in him (at least in his own home town, church and party he claimed he wanted to lead) he's done!
Sore loser. Plain and simple.
My understanding is that he’s been pretty conservative—including with his opposition to amnesty. If we don’t back Senators who dare to take conservative positions in office, we really don’t deserve conservative senators.
In 2012 I campaigned hard for Ted Cruz in the Texas primary against David Dewhurst. Dewhurst was expected to win. He lost. Curz was then elected to the Senate and I have not been so happy to vote for a candidate in a general election since I voted for Reagan in 1980 and 1984.
This year I campaigned hard for Steve Stockman in the Texas primary against John Cornyn. Cornyn won. So now I am going to vote for Cornyn in the general election. Do I still think Stockman would have been a better Senator? You betcha. Is Cornyn better than the Democrat alternative? You betcha.
If the Democrats/Harry Reid hold onto the Senate this election, then the conservatives in the Senate have no chance of blocking anything that Obama and Reid want to do during the next two years. There will be no filibusters allowed unless Harry Reid wants to allow them. Obama's far left wing judicial appointments will be legislating from the bench for the next 30 years.
If the Republicans/RINOs take the Senate, then the conservatives will at least have a chance to filibuster some of Obama's far left wing appointments. Will enough conservatives in the Senate find their balls and do it? Maybe. There are a lot of RINOs in the Senate, but in a Republican/RINO controlled Senate it will only take 40 conservatives to filibuster.
Also, if the Republicans cannot take control of the Senate this year then they have little chance of taking control of the Senate in 2016. Mathematically, it just doesn't work. This year there are mostly Democrat seats up for election (as a result of the Democrat sweep in 2008). In 2016, there will be mostly Republican seats up for election (as a result of the Republican sweep in 2010).
The only way for the Republicans to pick up seats in 2016 will be if they have a better year in 2016 than they did in 2010, when the Tea Party was new and motivated. That means throwing out some Democrats who got elected in 2010 and holding onto every Republican who got elected in 2010. That is not going to happen. The best case scenario is for the Republicans to take the Senate this year and hold onto it in 2016.
The point I am getting to is that we have to look at the long game. This year the Republicans need to take over the Senate, even though that means re-electing some RINOs. We then need to focus all of our energies on getting better candidates to vote for in 2016.
Then, in 2016, we will have a chance of electing a conservative President and replacing RINOs in the House and Senate with conservatives.
The only way to overturn most of what Obama and the Democrats have done over the past 6 years is to elect a conservative President supported by conservative Senators and Representatives in 2016. There will not be much that a conservative President can do in 2016 if the Democrats continue to hold the Senate.
Vote FOR REAL CONSERVATIVE "Tea Party Candidates" !
I don't consider that to be simple, I think simple minded is more like it. This is what you do in the primaries. The so called Tea Party candidate (debatable), Milton Wolf lost the primary even though many Kansans, including me, voted for him. There is no Tea Party Candidate to vote for.
The choice is to vote for Roberts or the flaming liberal Democrat posing as an Independent. Staying home isn't a choice, it's just a stupid decision to join with the other idiots ranting at the moon.
He's definitely no Ronald Reagan (whom he claimed he most looked to as an example)! Reagan stood next to Gerald Ford the next day after losing the Primary to and endorsed Ford as "his candidate for whom he would work and support to get elected."
To quote Lloyd Benson, "I knew Ronald Reagan, Milton, and you're NO Ronald Reagan!"
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