Posted on 02/27/2014 12:53:44 PM PST by cotton1706
Sen. Pat Roberts's (R-Kan.) primary challenger, radiologist Milton Wolf, picked up a national Tea Party endorsement on Thursday, an indication recent controversies haven’t sunk his campaign.
The Tea Party Express became the latest national conservative group to throw its weight behind the candidate. He also has the support of the Senate Conservatives Fund and the Madison Project.
Wolf faced questions this week about graphic X-ray images he posted to Facebook with off-color comments, which have been deleted but were reported in local newspapers in Kansas. Critics and medical experts alike have called the posts inappropriate, and they became fodder for two attack ads by Roberts, including a radio spot that calls Wolf “creepy.”
But in their endorsement, Tea Party Express Chairwoman Amy Kremer acknowledges the controversy and says Wolf has handled it well.
“We were happy to see Milton Wolf stepping forward and apologizing for posting some X-rays on Facebook several years ago,” she said.
She goes on to say that the story is “what’s wrong with politics today.”
“Political consultants dredge up things from years ago and try to make a big deal out of something minor. They are so desperate to stay in power that they attempt to destroy every good person that tries to change the political culture in favor of solving problems and getting things done for the people,” she added.
Kremer also notes in her endorsement that Wolf’s medical background makes him well-suited to take on health care reform.
Wolf has made his medical background a central focus in his bid to unseat Roberts. He charges Roberts hasn’t done enough to prevent or dismantle ObamaCare, and that as a doctor he’d be in a better position to tackle healthcare reform.
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Now muster the circular firing squad in 3, 2, 1.....
Congrats to “Obama’s cousin”, he now joins John Raese, Richard Mourdock, Sharron Angle, Justin Amash, Mark Neumann, Christine O’Donnell, and Marco Rubio as candidates that the “Tea Party Express” thought would make us proud.
Don't get me started on that Neumann endorsement. I went round and round with some flack poster from TPX - a California-based organization - about their GOP Senate primary endorsement of Neumann who was polling around 10%.
He/she kept posting TPX press releases about their endorsement. I asked her/him to stop posting TPX press stuff about the 2012 Wisconsin Senate race, given the facts that:
1) Neumann wasn't a conservative and had ZERO chance of winning the nomination,
2) Local Wisconsin Tea Parties were endorsing Eric Hovde who was within 5 points of the leading GOPe candidate,
3) the TPX endorsement was confusing to Wisconsin GOP voters, and
4) Wisconsin FReepers obviously knew more about the race than some yahoo from California.
Words escalated & abuse notifications were exchanged. Turned out that he/she turned was a friend of JimRob's and I received a stern warning to co-exist or else.
Bottom line - late GOP low-information voters (yes, the GOP has low-info voters, too) helped Neumann surge to 21% and caused Hovde to lose the nomination to GOPe former Governor Tommy Thompson 35% to 31%. Tommy went on to run a predicted and uninspiring general election race to a liberal lesbian congresswomyn from the People's Republic of Madison. Gee thanks, TPX!!!
I hope I’m not out of line here. I seem to be still wondering just what is the significant difference between the Tea Party Patriots and the Tea Party Express if there are any. I have been to various Tea Party Patriot chapters or group functions in my area and I must say that they don’t seem to articulate nor express interests that I can readily identify with and the subjects I want to know more about are almost never mentioned. These people kind of sound like Teapublicans instead of what Tea Party activists should be articulating, or at least not many of the issues that as a right thinking conservative should think IMO. They seem to shun me when I get around to identifying myself as a pro Christian Conservative. Is the TP Express cut from the same cloth? Hope not.
Please remember that the Tea Party groups formed around economic liberty and cutting spending, not social issues. While many conservatives have faith and incorporate those ideals in their politics, identifying yourself as a Christian will NOT endear you to any of the Libertarians who are drawn to TP's economic platform and have infiltrated and usurped control of some TP groups.
Not my flavor of Tea I'm afraid. I can support a few issues the TP and I have in common but there are not too many I'm afraid. Supporting the lesser of two evils leaves one still supporting evil. Again, thanks for your reply.
Milton Wolf posted xrays of gun shot victims on his Facebook and twitter accounts and made jokes about.
Milton Wolf's medical imaging company is involved in an anti-trust case for price fixing.
Wolf is a fake. The Kansas gun groups and the Kansas prolife groups are supporting Pat Roberts.
Robets needs to be beaten over the head about his 65% Heritage score from the last Congress. He is no longer a conservative when not up for reelection.
We’ve been burned by too many fake born again conservatives like McCain and Hatch. Roberts must go.
Which is why I'm NOT supporting a guy with no track record that's never lifted a finger for conservative causes before running for the U.S. Senate, but goes around endlessly referring to himself as "Obama's fearless conservative cousin"
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