What if John McCain throws a party and nobody comes? Count Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts among a growing list of GOP senators who’ve confirmed they won’t be attending the party’s national convention next month in Minneapolis.
Instead, Roberts will be campaigning hard on a statewide tour. Although he has a double-digit lead over Democrat Jim Slattery, Roberts apparently feels vulnerable.
Republican Congressional Committee chairman Tom Cole reportedly advised some embattled Republicans to steer clear of the convention. So far, GOP no-shows include Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Gordon Smith of Oregon, Ted Stevens of Alaska and Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina. And now Roberts.
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Good choice, Senator Pat Roberts. Even though I doubt if Jim Slattery will be a challenge for you, best to get out on the campaign trail here in Kansas and talk to the voters again.
Go for it Senator Pat, we need to hear from you.
Well, the GOP couldn’t have picked a worse place for their convention (Minneapolis is where Larry Craig, R-Sen-Idaho went tap dancing for same-sex sex a while back).
Couple the setting-ourselves-up-for-ridicule location with the fact that both Augustus Stupidus and Dick Cheney will speak, in prime time :lol: , and if you’re a sitting R Senator you’re presented with an event to avoid, not to attend.
2008: the election year when we voters are going to have to accept that both parties apparently think nothing of filling their collective feet with lead.
“Pedant” notes –
“…the GOP couldn’t have picked a worse place for their convention (Minneapolis is where Larry Craig, R-Sen-Idaho went tap dancing for same-sex sex a while back).”
Also, the MetroDome is the shadow of that I-35 bridge that collapsed due to CONservatives ignoring America’s rotting infrastructure.
So cheney will be attending? Last I heard McCain was requesting he not be present, not be given a slot for a speech… BOTH bush and cheney and then McCain? Well, be prepared to be lectured on how to be afraid, very afraid!
Monkey lies again!
Monkey, it has been well documented that the bridge in question had a design flaw, from the very beginning.
“Franklin” throws this hissy fit –
“…the bridge in question had a design flaw, from the very beginning.”
And hadn’t been adequately inspected for more than seven years when the DOT determined it was “one of the safest bridges in Minneapolis/St. Paul.”
They may have been right.
They still might be right, now that no one risks life and limb by crossing it anymore.
Will the mayor of Detroit attend the Democrat convention?
The design flaw would not be detected, with an inspection.
Nobody realized the FLAW until the failure of the bridge.
Its about time Roberts felt the need to ‘come home’ during an election. He’s been MIA for years and years. He’s lost all connection to Kansas people.
Re-election projection:
Roberts 58%
Slattery 42%
The criminal Mayor of Detroit is an Obama supporter (maybe even a Delegate).
Will the criminal Mayor of Detroit attend the convention?
Will Senator Larry Craig be there?
I mean it’s close to one of his old haunts and all!
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Franklin
Posted August 17, 2008 at 11:59 am | Permalink
The criminal Mayor of Detroit is an Obama supporter (maybe even a Delegate).
Will the criminal Mayor of Detroit attend the convention?
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So Franklin is now judge and jury of all he detests? Might I remind this moron that this is the United States of America, and we believe in the Bill of Rights, and that a man is innocent until proven guilty. It is up to the courts of this great country, along with a jury of his peers, should he so decide, to try and judge him according to the laws of the land.
By the way, you still haven’t answered XXX’s question.
O, and the Mayor of Detroit will not attend.
I’m inclined to agree with Paul that the bridge defects would not have been detected through inspection. I’m more interested in how it got there in the first place. Sort of like that hotel ‘bridge’ collapse where it was discovered that construction deviated from engineering plans.
Ksgolf - I doubt it will be that close.
If I were Roberts, I wouldn’t want to be associated with those people either.
Smart move on his part.
He’s gotten what he wanted from bush, bush bucks. Now time to try and distance himself. Saw this in the making back then.
Maybe that is part of why he got off the Intelligence (sic) Committee.
The Dems have already openly promised many suprises in Denver. I project a really big surprise.
The GOP will gather in Minn and look like a herd of drunken elephants staggering across the road and frozen in the headlights of an oncoming convoy. Sept 1 in Minnepolis will be the tragic prelude to a more tragic November for the party that has turned its back on its core principles and gone neo-con.
Roberts is continuing to separate himself from his past, both as the bush partisan SIC chaiman, and now distancing himself from the party royalty. Think he’s trying to burnish mccain’s maverick badge and put it on. Problem is, he only has a couple instances where he diverged from the party.
But Kansans’ have such short memeories it’ll probably work. And, you won’t see the Eagle refreshing anyone’s memory.
When (if) he wins he’ll climb right back into the partisan Republican saddle, like he was never gone.
So true, so sad, Phantom. The Eagle won’t remind and the next bright and shiny object is always waiting to be admired.
Meanwhile a few of us remember Roberts is complicit in bush’s war of choice, needless deaths and ruination of our economy. He covered for bush and sold America’s soul.