Tea Party Express Backs Pat Roberts

[big_dog]

Source: The Wichita Eagle 10/14/2014 6:34 AM

Eight months later, US Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) and the Tea Party Express are now traveling the same road. The California-based tea party group, best known for its national bus tours in support of conservative Republican candidates, endorsed Roberts’ re-election bid on Monday. In a news conference punctuated with the Pledge of Allegiance and a prayer for a Roberts victory, the Tea Party Express threw its support behind the senator, who spoke briefly at the event.

Roberts reprised his campaign themes that opponent Greg Orman is a natural Democrat masquerading as an independent and that an Orman victory could deny Republicans control of the Senate. In some election scenarios, an Orman victory could put him in the position of deciding whether the Senate continues under Democratic control or swings to join the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

“This election will determine the direction of our republic,” Roberts said. Orman has not committed to caucusing with either party, saying that he would join with the Senate majority if there is one and, in case of a tie, caucus with whichever party shows the most interest in bipartisan cooperation in solving the nation’s problems.

After Monday’s tea party event, the Orman campaign issued a statement saying that it shows Roberts is uniting with the far right wing of the Republican Party in an effort to keep his job. “Embracing extremist politicians like Ted Cruz, who led the job-killing government shutdown last fall; Sarah Palin, and the Tea Party Express is just more evidence that Sen. Roberts is part of a broken political system,” said Orman campaign manager Jim Jonas.



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[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

1. Why can't we find more Democrats like Orman?

This guy tells it like it is and people in a red state are embracing it. The silent majority has had enough of the same old trickle down bullshit from assholes like Roberts.

[big_dog]

2. wingnuts are circling the wagons

Roberts is calling in all of his chits from 40+ years in Washington just to stay even/-3 in the polls http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2014/10/key-races-tighten-in-kansas.html

[marble falls]

3. Like these derps weren't already going to vote for the sack of poop.

[blkmusclmachine]

4. Tea Party would back dog poop, if you put an (R) after it

[big_dog]

5. eight months ago, Roberts was the devil incarnate to these wingnuts

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what a bunch of frauds the tea party is

[Mike Daniels]

6. Given this cave-in you have to wonder why the GOP defers to the Tea Party in the first place.

The Tea Party and its "candidates" like Cruz know they wouldn't survive a general election if they broke away from the GOP and formed a third party.

So, when their candidate loses a GOP primary to an establishment candidate that they demonized do they show any intellectual consistency and run their candidate as an independent? Heck no. They run back to support the GOP candidate that cleaned their clock in the primary.

And yet the GOP bends over backwards to accommodate these clowns.

[big_dog]

7. Roberts had to pay them all off by running Palin, Cruz, Jebbie etc. in there before the election

its all an elaborate shakedown scheme. you dont get the 'tea party cred' unless you pay their wingnuts to come and do campaign events to get their 'endorsement'

[jtuck004]

8. "Daddy, you were born this ignorant?" "No child, but I did spend a night with the Tea Party Express"

Not that they don't exist in both major parties, btw. Just differ in the ways they shit on their neighbors.

[big_dog]

10. eventually the wall st types will resort running their own candidates in the primaries

thereby cancelling out the tea party threats

[bullwinkle428]

9. These assholes always resort to the "default" position.

They went from "ROMNEY IZ THE ANTI-KRIST!1!" to "HE'Z AR GRATE WITE HOPE1!" in the blink of an eye!

[quakerboy]

11. Huh. So many openings

Would that make him an astroturfbagger, or just a Carpetbagger walking on Astroturf?