Kansas City Star columnist Steve Kraske didn’t wait for history to draw conclusions about what the 2006 election will mean for Kansas politics.
On Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, he wrote: “Boffo re-elect. Presidential-style campaign ads. Now, can she pull off a major legislative achievement? To be listed on every Democratic vice presidential short list in ‘08. (Yeah, she’s from Kansas, but she’s a woman, right?)”
On Kansas Democrats: “What’s this? A bench? Lt. Gov.-elect Mark Parkinson stands in the gubernatorial queue for 2010. Then there’s Morrison, Boyda, Moore. Suddenly Democrats are everywhere.”
As for Kansas Republicans: “Think Tuesday’s election results will knock some sense into ‘em? Think again. Principle trumps politics. Internal strife reigns.”
Posted by Rhonda Holman
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The obvious conclusion to draw about all this is that the Kansas Democratic Party has more to offer people and candidates who are truly concerned about the issues that are most important to the economic survival of Kansas families.
I think what has happened is that independant-minded people have opted for the “less disciplined” Democratic Party. Thus we see a variety of approaches rather than the lock-step enforced in today’s GOP.
Or maybe the moderate repubs got sick of the ultra right making the decisions for them. If you recall, Mays and all his buddies like Shallenburger have been not so friendly to those who don’t toe the line.
Sometimes, we want something to be true so badly it blurs our vision. That is what has happened to the writer of this story. This is still Kansas and it’s still Republican. Wishing doesn’t make it otherwise.
This is Kansas and we have a Democratic Governor, and two out of four Democratic Representatives.
Clinging to the illusion that it’s a “Republican state” doesn’t make it otherwise.
Face it woody, the midwest is the new, hot political battleground.
And you just lost a HUGE battle.
NA-NA, NUH-POO-POO!!(sticking out tongue while making moose antlers and acting generally immature)HA!
Republicans need to ditch their love affair of evangelicals. They will continue to loose.
But I doubt it. I guess if the GOP really want to rally their base, they can exhume Terri Schiavo body from the grave and put her back on the respirator and feeding tube.
Joe, you are so very right, as a Repulican that voted straight democratic in this election, it was the “loose nut” evangelical wing that drove me across the line. I hope the next step is to tax all of the deist organizations that just rip off the weak minded.