Not All Of Obama Relatives Are Socialists

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Barack Obama's fire-breathing conservative cousin set to run for the U.S. Senate to stop his family turning America 'into a second rate welfare state'

By David Martosko In Washington
PUBLISHED: 11:40 EST, 13 September 2013 | UPDATED: 05:06 EST, 15 September 2013
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This is not your typical political dynasty-in-the-making: A second cousin to Barack Obama is considering a run for U.S. Senate, and he's a fire-breathing conservative.

Milton Wolf, whose mother's cousin was also Obama's grandmother, is a Kansas radiologist who writes columns for The Washington Times and produced videos for The Daily Caller last year.
Neither publication is known for its patience with the president, and Wolf fits right in with their politics. He is gauging support among conservative leaders for a primary challenge to Sen. Pat Roberts.

'They say you can't choose your family,' Wolf said in one Daily Caller video, 'but I say you can choose to stop your family from turning America into a second-rate, European-style social welfare state.
'The current Republican establishment has become a mere speed bump on the Democrats' road to a government-run social-welfare state.' Wolf writes in his most recent Times column. 'As President Reagan described the Republicans in Congress in his time, and it's equally true today, "We had rabbits when we needed tigers."'

His critique of the 'kinder, gentler' GOP that emerged from the first George Bush's presidency isn't lost on conservative leaders inside and outside of Kansas. Many of them got an email from Wolf three weeks ago which some see as an entree to a political run.

'If you've ever asked yourself what you can do and you're ready to fight for America ... email me,' he wrote, according to Politico. 'It's time for the patriots to save America from our failed political class.'

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The aging Sen. Pat Roberts isn't conservative enough for Wolf, who casts himself in the role of Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and other right-wing young guns


Obama has his hands full with Syria and an upcoming budget battle, so it's unlikely he's paid much attention to his distant cousin in Kansas

Sen. Roberts, a 77-year-old former Marine, has been in Congress since 1980 and jumped from the House to the Senate in 1997. He's not a moderate Republican in the mold of South Carolina's Lindsey Graham or Maine's Susan Collins, leading some to wonder why Wolf considers him part of a slide toward a weak GOP.

Roberts voted against the confirmation of CIA Director John Brennan and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. He opposed raising the debt ceiling at Obama's request. He cast a vote against the Obamacare law in late 2009, and against a comprehensive immigration reform proposal this year. And abortion-rights and gun-control groups give him a 'zero per cent' rating, indicating that he's staunchly pro-life and pro-firearms.

But he did back the now-infamous 'fiscal cliff' bargain with Democrats in late 2012, the measure that bore so-called 'sequester' budget cuts, including deep slashes to the Defense Department.

Wolf wrote in April that 'We need more Ted Cruzes and Mike Lees, more Rand Pauls and Marco Rubios,' referring to four Republicans seen as among the most conservative senators.

That column made a point of defending outsiders who ran as primary upset hopefuls against longtime incumbents – a role in which he may cast himself next year when Roberts comes up for re-election.

Not a kissing cousin: President Obama has never acknowledged his distant cousin Milton Wolf, but he may have to call the conservative doctor 'Senator' soon.


'Today's Republican superstars,' he wrote, 'were yesterday's GOP primary enemies ... Now the Republican establishment hopes you'll forget that they opposed these men just as they did Reagan.'

Roberts seemed indifferent to a primary challenge when Politico interviewed him Thursday. 'Obviously the water is fine: Anybody can enter a primary – for that matter, an election,' he added. 'I take every race seriously. There isn’t an election that goes by that I haven’t taken seriously.'

But he claimed he's 'not vulnerable. I'm in a very strong position.'

Those words could come back to haunt Roberts if Obama's conservative cousin begins to make inroads in a state like Kansas.

Wolf did not respond to a request for comment, but one Republican strategist said his chances of winning a primary are better than most.

Wolf gave a campaign-style stemwinder at a conservative conference this year, sounding more like a politician than a guest speaker

He 'isn't well-known on the coasts, but apparently he's been the topic of dinner-table conversation in Kansas ever since he outed himself as a conservative during the Obamacare debate in 2009.'

'If Roberts gets complacent, and if a few super PACs put money behind him, or the Club for Growth or the Heritage Foundation lays an endorsement at his feet, well, who knows?'

Wolf addressed the conservative Red State Gathering this year in New Orleans, where he laid out his political philosophy.

'Not everybody in the family things you are just a bunch of "bitter clingers." ... I love the Lord our God, my firearm of choice is the Ruger SR-556, and I have hatred toward no man – only toward bad government that destroys our freedom and our future.'

It could almost have been a campaign speech, and next year Kansans could hear more of it.


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