As others have posted, he lost the Governor’s race.
I think that flop speaks for itself.
Not really. You used two pejoratives without a substantive criticism. Candidates lose sometimes and manage to make a comeback. Kobach ran for the State Senate in 2000 against a left-wing RINO and lost the primary. He ran in 2004 against a Democrat U.S. House incumbent (Dennis Moore) and lost. He was a “two-time loser” by the time he ran for Secretary of State in 2010 and prevailed with 59% of the vote statewide. He got fractionally higher than his 2010 performance in 2014, even as Brownback poorly performed.
Reagan lost the Presidential race in 1976 to Ford and yet he made a comeback, should we have similarly dismissed him and all other candidates who lost and were trying again ?
Almost any Republican running for Governor of Kansas in 2018 would’ve been in a difficult position. Jeff Colyer likely would’ve lost, too. Kansas LIKES electing Demonrat & RINO Governors. Brownback was the outlier in 5 decades of Governors in 2010 and 2014, the only Conservative Republican elected in 5 decades.
If Kobach had won in 2018, he would’ve been the first Republican to win a 3rd consecutive race for the party for Governor since 1954. Since 1956, with the lone exception of 1964, Kansas has alternated parties for Governor. No Republican or Democrat in that time has passed off the office, except via resignation, to a member of the same party at the next election.
When you attack a candidate, you should understand the facts and the dynamics at play (both of the race, candidate AND the state or locale), and when you don’t, your criticisms can be easily dismissed and seen as ill-informed. You made similarly ill-informed comments regarding Alabama’s Senate race as well recently and used personal insults in place of actual and logical arguments.