It is rare that I see a senatorial candidate make such huge unchecked mistakes in a campaign leading up to a primary where there is real concern about his ability to survive a tea party opponent who has no money. But Senator Pat Roberts, who yesterday went on the air in Kansas City to joke that he came back to Kansas 'When he had an opponent' today magnified it by pointing out his kids went to school in Kansas, when in fact, they only did for three months.
http://www.breitbart.com/...
fending off persistent questions about his residency status, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) noted in a radio interview last week that “my kids went to school” in Dodge City, Kansas, as a means of demonstrating his ties to the state he represents roughly 1,400 miles away in Washington, D.C.
But a close inspection of that claim shows his children only attended school there for about three months, and attended and graduated from high school in Alexandria, Virginia, although they later attended college in Kansas.
Tea Party Kansas Republicans, who have bought entirely into the idea that Chris McDaniels was screwed by insiders in Mississippi are looking at turning their party fury against Pat Roberts in Kansas.
The fact that Roberts keeps making mistakes would be one thing, but he picked the worst week possible for these kind of mistakes.
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This weekend in Wichita, the Kansas Fair Tax group will be having their assembly 'Evil Under the Dome' (that evil, of course, being Democrats basically) http://www.fairtaxkc.org/
Who will be there?
Why:
Kris Kobach, Republican Attorney General
Todd Tiahrt, candidate in District 4 (Wichita)
Mike Pompeo, candidate in District 4 (Wichita)
Milton Wolf, Senatorial Candidate and..
That's right. Senator Pat Roberts is officially ducking the event.
The Kansas Leadership, through Kasha Kelly, has officially endorsed Milton Wolf, the tea party candidate and it appears as though the KS FairTax and other lobbies will do so as well.
Pat Roberts repeated gaffes will fill conservative email boxes from now until the primary, and the open question being asked is the most deadly: "Is Pat Roberts too old for his job", a topic that came up this morning on conservative radio out of Kansas City.
Roberts, 78, will now have to fend off questions of whether or not his age is part of why he is making these kind of slips, and once we start that debate he may be in real trouble.