This has nothing to do with all of this GOPe horesepoop.
Gov. Sam Brownback-—hardly a RINO-—is also behind in the polls.
What IS the matter with KS???????????????????????????
That’s the bigger surprise. Brownback lowered taxes across the board, but of course we’ve had non-stop hand wringing over how much the serfs have been able to keep. The KS Supreme Court is also requiring more and more money go to the schools (not directly of course - after the Legislature votes on funding and the usual suspects sue). So it’s been non-stop “no money for the children” BS for the last year.
To understand the Kansas Republican Party, you must understand Kansas History. They are the Free Staters. The most popular watering hole in uber liberal Lawrence is the Free State Brewery. Republicans in Kansas believe that they are personally responsible for freeing the slaves, without their sacrifices in Kansas, it never would have happened. This attitude has passed down through the generations with the result that the Kansas Republican Party has a sizeable proportion of liberals in their ranks.
They controlled state politics for many years because they held the balance of power. They would side with the Democrats when convenient, and they would blackmail the other Republicans to advance their liberal causes. They gave us two terms of Kathleen Sebelius.
Sam Brownback set out to do something about this. After he was elected Governor, he went after 12 notorious liberal Republicans in the Legislature. They all lost in the primary and the Kansas Republican party is no longer controlled by liberals, it is conservative and almost threw out Pat Roberts, who has a conservative voting record, but otherwise doesn’t care much about the state.
The defeated liberals are all mad as wet hens about this and have vowed revenge. They are joined with the teachers union and the Democrat party to defeat both Brownback and Roberts. Orman and Davis are their shills. Since the Democrat Party essentially doesn’t exist in this state, the only way this happens is through these has been liberal Republicans. Right now, they are being aided and abetted by many self proclaimed conservative purists who think that payback is in order because some Leawood doctor claimed that he belonged to the Tea Party. I voted for Wolf in the primary, but that was the end of it. Roberts and Brownback represent the interests of conservatives and they will get my vote.
“is also behind in the polls”
Okay. Back to sarcasm school with all three of you!