Roberts already wants a fourth term

robertsmugWhen Sen. Sam Brownback gives up his job to run for governor next year, it could be Kansas’ only open seat for a while. The Hutchinson News reported that Sen. Pat Roberts, who is officially Kansas’ “junior senator,” already plans to run for a fourth term in 2014 and had $82,256 in campaign cash as of September. If Roberts won in 2014 and served the full six years, by the way, he’d be 84 when his term ended in early 2021. At that point, Roberts’ 24 years in the Senate would make his longevity among Kansans second only to Bob Dole’s 27 years.

6 Comments

  1. AW
    Posted November 8, 2009 at 8:34 am | Permalink

    Term Limits!

  2. Monkeyhawk
    Posted November 8, 2009 at 9:36 am | Permalink

    Yeah.

    Ol’ Pat Roberts really looks forward to retiring to the old family homestead — a dusty unused apartment above a drug store in Dodge City — instead of what his wife calls her “Dream Home” in suburban Maryland.

    Oh, he has the drugstore cowboy rhetoric, but no one in Washington takes him seriously. He carries Repubic Party water like the brooms in that Mickey Mouse “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” cartoon.

    Fine.

    Kansans probably don’t deserve any better.

    Live with it.

    The guy’s a dolt and has done nothing of consequence in the Senate on behalf of his constituents.

    “We gonna round up a posse and lynch a ‘libruhl’ out by the dry gully ‘cuz we know how a coyote stays alive and this ain’t been my first rodeo.”

    That kinda gibberish works with Kansas CONs.

    Fine.

    Just what has Pat Roberts accomplished with that?

    He’s a pretty pathetic “hero” to fawn over.

  3. oliveoyl
    Posted November 8, 2009 at 1:31 pm | Permalink

    Term limits! YES

  4. Phantom
    Posted November 8, 2009 at 3:06 pm | Permalink

    Like we say in Kansas, “It’s time to hang up your spurs and six guns and ride that lonesome trail into the sunset. Your rodeo days are over.”

  5. politicalmama
    Posted November 8, 2009 at 7:47 pm | Permalink

    I’m not a fan of term limits. I think that it does encourage people to keep doing what they’re supposed to do and have the knowhow to get things done. That said, I don’t feel Pat represents me nor Kansas well. I want him out.

  6. Phantom
    Posted November 9, 2009 at 8:38 am | Permalink

    Roberts needs to retire and let some young person have his job, jobs are scarce!