It was good to see the GOP turn away challenges and win the high-profile governor and senate races in Kansas. I’m sure Brownback is better than the Democrat he beat, and I’m sure he’s better than the moderate/liberal Republicans in the state.
But conservatives should never forget how terrible Brownback was on immigration while in Congress and the Senate, and what a hypocrite he was on refugees.
He was one of the Republicans who helped torpedo the mid-90s attempt at comprehensive immigration reform that would have reduced legal immigration and ended unending mass chain immigration. In other words, the GOP could have passed a bill that might have halted or at least slowed the immigration-driven demographic shift of the nation towards the Democrats. Clinton even signaled initial support for the bill (or at least the Jordan Commission’s findings that the bill was based on). But Brownback and other liberal-on-immigration conservatives helped derail the effort, and Clinton never had the make a tough choice between signing or vetoing a reasonable bill that would have been popular with the general public but unpopular with professional ethnic interest groups.
And as a Senator, Brownback was one of the biggest cheerleaders for importing refuguees...just so long as they weren’t dumped in Kansas that is!
I won’t excuse Brownback on immigration. He is a good governor and Kansas is lucky to have him. Beats Sibelius or Graves or Finney or.....
They were dumped in Kansas and you know it. Large groups of refugees came from Sudan and Somalia into Kansas.