Sen. Pat Roberts Defeats Tea Party Challenger, Wins GOP Primary. So what’s with Kansas Republicans? Are they happy with their aged, RINO, career politician who doesn’t even own a home in Kansas? Or did they think they were voting for Pat Robertson?
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I suspect that these RINOs put sidewinders in there to take votes away from the challenger on a tight race to throw it off enough so that they will win. I've seen scenarios like this many times and that's why I am suspicious. I really wished we would start seeing more new faces in the republican political arena because I'm sick of these RINO career bastards getting richer and richer year after year off of thier special interests and lobbiests.
What does it take to get rid of these RINO assholes? Even when they manage to vote one out, the scumbags just move to another state and run again. Or change parties, no better then the liars across the isle.
Like Charlie "The Tan Man" Crist in Florida.
He lost as a Republican (RINO), so he ran as an Independent, lost again, and is now running as a Demorat.
He was solely responsible for huge education funding cuts, and is running on increasing education funding!
Meanwhile, in my own personal congressional district, the Tea Party incumbent beat the RINO establishment-backed challenger whose negative lying-ass TV and radio ads have been irritating the shit out of me for weeks. The Chamber of Commerce backed the challenger and once again the Chamber endorsement and financial backing failed. Ha:
http://reason.com/blog/2014/08/05/amash-beats-back-crony-republicans-prima
This got me laughing (it's all anyone wants to talk about today):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/08/06/justin-amash-won-on-tuesday-and-then-things-got-interesting-video/
About the Arab-American thing: the best friend I made in college was Palestinian just like Justin Amash. That's when I learned that Michigan has a sizable population of Christian Palestinians. These are people who left the Middle East to get away from Muslim crazies. And when I say Christians, I mean ancient Christians, who trace their Christianity all the way back to Jesus Himself. Obviously, these are not the kind of Palestinians who are going to have any sympathy for Muslim extremists of any kind, not after battling Islam for the last 1,500 years. So for this slimy RINO challenger to call Amash "Al-Qeada's best friend in Congress" was not only a lie, it was historically ignorant and bigoted.
Now that I see the numbers, it's the usual story. Roberts didn't manage to get a majority, but two other challengers managed to split the anti-Roberts vote enough to give him the plurality. Final: 48%-41% with two spoilers taking the other 11%. It's a good bet most of that 11% would have gone to Wolf if those two yahoos hadn't been in the race. I wonder what purpose those two thought they were serving.
If we want to beat incumbents, we need to field ONE challenger, not a group of challengers. The same thing is going to happen in Tennessee - Lamar Alexander has more than one challenger for the Republican nomination... EIGHT altogether. Talk about splitting the anti-incumbent vote!
People are so damn lazy!!!!
Term limits fixes a lot of these issues.
The idiot voters bitch and complain about the shitbags in D.C. but then when they have a chance to get rid of them they turn right around and vote for the incumbent. Maddening.
I know that the Kansas Governor's conservative policies have been receiving some flack from the residents, that might have something to do with this.
It's discouraging, that's for sure. The Republican establishment is killing the party. Or maybe they've already killed it and we just haven't accepted the hard truth yet.