Reflections of the Rational Republican:

In Kansas, longtime GOP Sen. Pat Roberts faces doubts as he scrambles to hold seat:



KINSLEY, Kan. — Shirley Deege is a proud Republican. For as long as she can remember, the nurse has been voting for Pat Roberts — in the 1980s, when he represented a vast patchwork of dusty plains hamlets such as hers in the House; in 1996, when he first ran for the Senate; and every six years after that.

“Looking back over my life I’m wondering, ‘What major things has he done for Kansas?’ I’m coming up empty,” said Deege, 53, as she sipped coffee while waiting for Roberts to arrive at the country fairgrounds here this week.

“He’s basically furniture in the Senate, and the people in Kansas know that,” said national GOP strategist John Weaver, a former McCain adviser. “You could give the average Kansan 24 hours to come up with something Pat Roberts has done in the Senate, and after 24 hours, even the crickets would be standing there befuddled.”

“I’m 78 years old and I’ve been voting for [Roberts] since the beginning,” Darrel Miller, a retired wheat farmer, said after seeing Roberts in Kinsley. “I don’t wish him any ill will. I just think we need a change.”

To energize Republican base voters, Roberts is turning up the rhetorical heat. At a stop in Dodge City on Monday, he said he wants to put Reid “in the cloak room, maybe put him in the closet.” Roberts also told the crowd that “our country is headed toward national socialism.”

“A vote for me is a vote to change the Senate back to a Republican majority,” Roberts told reporters in Kinsley. “We’ll get things done, and it means a stop to the Obama agenda.”


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Blacks have been voting for Democrats forever. What have Democrats done for them? At least Republicans are capable of becoming rational enough to see the problem. Can we say that for African Americans?

 

Actually plenty of educated African Americans do vote Republican, it's just a small percentage overall. Perhaps that small subset, who worked hard in the classroom and succeeded in their careers, sees what Democrats have done all these years.

 

I'm an acquaintance of one. She's an M.D. and listens to Fox incessantly.

 

Can't speak for African Americans ,but luke was right when he said there needs to be term limits , fresh blood.

 

You won't get an argument from me. Term limits would be awesome.