Posted on 03/29/2022 9:48:42 AM PDT by cotton1706
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Key conservative initiatives are likely to fail in Kansas this year because a few Republicans are breaking with the rest of the Legislature's veto-proof GOP supermajorities.
Republicans have pushed measures through the state Senate tightening election laws and weakening school vaccination requirements, but not with the two-thirds vote needed to override potential vetoes from Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly. A proposed change in the Kansas Constitution aimed at limiting future tax increases also died in the Senate for lack of a two-thirds vote.
Because former President Donald Trump won over many conservatives and abortion opponents, his supporters control the Kansas GOP, and anti-vaccine activists and election-conspiracy promoters have gained influence. But conservatives' struggles in the Legislature show that with Kelly as governor, they still need more-centrist establishment Republicans' support.
“The biggest question, arguably, in American politics right now is, where are the fault lines in terms of Trump Republicans and Republicans?” said Bob Beatty, a Washburn University of Topeka political scientist.
Elections in 2020 moved the Legislature to the right, particularly in the Senate, where only a handful of GOP moderates remain.
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Time for another Trump rally in Ok. Don’t hold back - name names.
^5
These are the ones that are sleepers or blackmailed.
See.
No Rinos.
Vote them out.
Can we really expect much of a conservative agenda?
It is clear as day.
Those “moderates” are really just your average scumbag democrat who knows they could never win in Kansas running as a transparent democrat.
So it’s all about taking power by any means necessary, including pretending to be a republican, which is not a big deal for a psychopath leftist.
Hey Bob Dole in the end did us a solid, endorsing Trump.
I remain convinced that the GOP is not the permanent natural home for political conservatism. There will always be a critical cohort of grifters who can short-circuit any good movement towards bibliocentric virtue and upset their status. At the moment that natural home does not exist, and I am not certain where it might come from.
And Landon-Kassebaum. Another winner.
Kansas has always been a three party state - Democrats, conservative Republicans, and moderate Republicans. Moderates are making a come-back.
-——Permanent natural home——
There is no other home
The problem is that of going a bridge to far
Politics is the art of the possible
Sure and Mitch gave us Judges.
Something is rotting in Kansas.
This is what you get when you elect a Democrat governor.
Why did Brownback fail so miserably? I thought he was POTUS material. Ok so the moderates had more success. Couldn’t they have looked moderate while pushing conservative? I always thought Dole would have made a great president for 4 years. America was having none of it. BJ was very lucky. No major issues-country on auto-pilot.
My longtime dear departed friend Walter Williams used to say, “Politics is the art of the *plausible*. It is economics that is the art of the possible with limited resources.”
As to your comment, it may indeed be true that the American system is so compromised and corrupt that there is no natural home for conservatives. We must truly adopt the mentality of living in occupied territory and act accordingly.
Bob Dole was a perfect example of a get along Republican. Always willing to make a deal usually negative to our side.
Just like Bush, he let the media run over him while running for President.
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