After getting pounded by the state’s minority party two gubernatorial elections in a row, the Kansas Republican Party might have sought a new leader likely to unify right and middle. Maybe Kris Kobach of Kansas City, Kan., who was elected state chairman Saturday in Topeka, will turn out to be that guy. But so far the law professor and unsuccessful candidate for Congress has been defined by his intemperate words on illegal immigration, eminent domain and the Kansas Supreme Court.
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Isn’t this that Conservative Right-winger? Yeah, that’s going to unify the Kansas GOP party.
…Voting Crat…Will watch them fall…Americans will wise up to Crats…Crats lose Congress in two years…
Dothead = TrollerTroller = GolfnutsGolfnuts = Dave
Dave’s not here man
You can tell he’s a CON just by looking at him.
He’s the pipe smoking society frat boy from “Animal House.”
Capn,That is the mental image get for RepubliCons. I suggest they officially change the RepubliCon mascot from an elephant to a frat boy.
I think this is one of those red meat threads they talked about at the meetup.
MOM. I MISSED OUT!please explain?
Dave (moi) <– only posts on this name.
There is no such thing as an “intemperate word” on ILLEGAL aliens or ILLEGAL immigration.
As there are no “intemperate words” on any other criminal.
This is the first of what promises to be many quotes from Kobach’s detractors.
“…he’s convinced that he’s so right, that he’s unwilling to listen to other people whose perspectives differ from his, and he ends up scaring them off.”
-Andy Wollen, Chairman of the Kansas Tradition Republican Majority
Love how the Eagle wants to give the State GOP advice.
Sebelius hardly pounded Shallenburger in 2002. She got 52.5%!
Tracy, the editors talked about what topics they chose to throw out. They said they regularly joke about this being one to rile up the bloggers.
One of the other bloggers remarked about it being ‘raw meat’ for us…meaning to fight like wolves over.
Smiley, yes they got pounded.The Gov wasn’t the only race.Ya’ know?
Amazing recall, Ed.
What’d she get last time?
And speaking of Repub idiocy, remember when the Liar-in-Chief said that he’d fire anybody who’d leak Valerie Plame’s name?
Turns out that Presidential SpokesLIAR Ari fLIEscher said under oath that Libby told him about Plame just days before the leak.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070129/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/cia_leak_trial_8
In other words, FLIEscher knew and Bush didn’t?
Incompetent or liar? . . . I think both actually.
Shit Ma, we do that even on an open thread.It’s sooo much fun when you got a bunch of buffoons like the GOP has right now!Ain’t it hilarious how some of the wingers show up everday to say how slanted the eagle is and how much they hate it?I’ll keep offering to show them some winger blogs that they will believe are fair and balanced.
You know you’re in DEEP SHITwhen your (former) spokespersondemands immunity before speaking!
There was a LOT more to his leaving than just being tired of being the running screen.
I wonder why they waste their time reading something that is, with out a doubt, is going to rile them up!
And then complain about it.
gster, yep.Wingers come here and complain that the Eds are hippy, commie, pinko, left wing fags, along with the liberal love fest of regulars,and then…………they want you to take some funkin’ link that in a nutshell says you’re a liar.IF they can find a winger link.
The Kansas Senate has 40 members, 30 are Republicans.Sounds the we are doing just fine.
52.5% in a red state ain’t that bad. ;)
(Sorry for the grammar. it doesn’t work as well the correct way.)
fleet,
Don’t be surprised if that changes in the not-too-distant future.
52.5%?? Where did you come up with that? I would be very surprised.
The title of this article is:Does state GOP want to win?
They already have. According to rd, we have 52.5% of the Kansas Senate.
Those of you that think Kansans hate Brownback…
Last night on the Ch12 local news at 10, they showed some quick poll numbers of how Sammy would do in presidential races vs. Hillary, Gore, Edwards…
He beats them all. I don’t recall the percentages, but none of them were close at all – maybe 55-45 in one or two of them.
Dims, you still have plenty of work to do if you think Kansas is turning blue.
That’s really sad. But if you put one repub up over one dem, lets see how those numbers stack up.
I hear Walt Chappell is thinking about running for U.S. Senate against Roberts in 2008!
Kris Kobach is the best thing that could have happened for the D’s. He will continue to split the moderates away from the ConHeads, recruit more ConHeads to lose to D’s, support politics above policy.
What’s not to love?
“I hear Walt Chappell is thinking about running for U.S. Senate against Roberts in 2008!”
Now that is REALLY SAD!
Um, fleet? Where did I say the dems had 52.5% in the senate?
Scroll back, hon. You’re lost.
golfer – I saw that too – in passing. Was that a Kansas poll or a national one? I have to figure it was local.
That’s what happens when I half-watch the news while working on other things.
Ben,I saw it in passing, too. So I can’t tell you, but I’m almost certain it was Kansas voters.
Pmom,It WAS one on one. A series of independent polls: Sammy vs. Hillary, Sammy vs. Gore, etc.
That’s pretty sad that so many people would vote for Brownback. He’s like Phill Kline.
Perhaps not enough people know this.
Eagle staff, get on it.
Oh and you were going to tell me about the kids?
Being anti-abortion doesn’t make him “like Phill Kline”. Kline self-destructed. Sammy is much brighter.
My kid had a stellar weekend in Salina: 7 events and 6 new personal best times. And she’s already statistically in the top 2.5% of all swimmers nationally in her age group.
THEN, this weekend in Wichita, she swam 10 event and got 8 new personal bests.
AND, she swam an unbelieveable anchor leg on her relay team – coming from 2 seconds behind to win by .01 sec. It was outstanding.
Congratulations to your kid.
Sam is just as fruity as Phill Kline.
You’re in the minority about Sam. Remember, he won with 69% of the vote in 2004. =)
Golfnut:
Brownback may have won with 69%, but he wasn’t running against Walt Chappel!
OK just a joke!
By the way:
You go girl swimmer!
Thanks Worker. I’m very proud of her.
As a Republican the last person I would turn to for advice would be a left-wing bigot like Rhonda Holman.
As for Wollen and the rest of that pack of losers, check their funding and then also check who their members donated to and I’m betting it’s heavily Democrat in both cases.
If they’re such a “Majority” why can’t they even control one district of their alleged party?
Agreed that Sam is fruity. His position on immigration sucks, his position on the war on terror sucks, the people he has around him are questionable at best. Sam better do well elsewhere, cause he’s upset a lot of people here.
The subject of this thread is the KS GOP. What the hell is there problem?
“There”problem is that they’re still winning because the Democrat Party is still about killing babies, betraying our foreign policy and religious bigotry.
If you don’t want to kill your baby, have sex with someone of your own gender, or betray your country, the Democrats having nothing for you.
Which category are you in, Jerry?
“The Kansas Senate has 40 members, 30 are Republicans.Sounds the we are doing just fine.
Posted by: fleettwood | January 29, 2007 at 04:09 PM
52.5% in a red state ain’t that bad. ;)
(Sorry for the grammar. it doesn’t work as well the correct way.)”
Posted by: RD | January 29, 2007 at 04:29 PM
rd-It’s all right here. 52.5%??
“The title of this article is:Does state GOP want to win?
They already have. According to rd, we have 52.5% of the Kansas Senate.”
Jerry-You question has already been asked, but still not answered.
Ben & Jerry,Lots of NUTS and FRUITS around here lately.Please return them to your ice cream.
Their problems are many.Deep seated inferiority complex,resulting from rejection in early childhood.
Right wing, fundie, nutjobs who want to shred the constitution and turn America into a theocracy. Sure they believe in freedom as long as it’s the forced to live by their Bible kind.
“hippy, commie, pinko, left wing fags,”
Hey, careful there Tracy.
I resemble that remark!
Heheheheheheheh!
ROFLMAO!!!!
“left-wing bigot like Rhonda Holman”
OMG!
The profound irony of that stuns me into uncharacteristic silence…
Republicans do control both the kansas house and senate.
Proving again that Sebelius has no coattails down ballot, except for Paul Morrison.
So… what’s the gop legislature going to do about water?
They could set themselves up to win back cedar crest if they actually provided the leadership the state isnt getting from “governor leadership”
And we saw how well doug’s strategy of “do nothing-blame sebeius” worked for them in 06.
I wonder if the gop will do something different, or just so the same old things harder and faster?
ksfg, this far out, it’s risky to say anything, but I shall hazard the guess of “the same old things, faster and harder”.
Sebelius hardly pounded Shallenburger in 2002. She got 52.5%!Posted by: Ed Smiley | January 29, 2007 at 02:05 PM
The Kansas Senate has 40 members, 30 are Republicans.Sounds the we are doing just fine.Posted by: fleettwood | January 29, 2007 at 04:09 PM
52.5% in a red state ain’t that bad. ;)
(Sorry for the grammar. it doesn’t work as well the correct way.)Posted by: RD | January 29, 2007 at 04:29 PM
Fleetwood,
Does that help with your reading comprehension any? Granted, I posted 20 minutes AFTER your post, but if you think I have the leisure time to loll around just waiting to comment on one of your posts, you have another think coming.
Care to try again?
Gentle Ben writes,
“”There”(sic) problem is that they’re still winning because the Democrat Party is still about killing babies, betraying our foreign policy and religious bigotry.
If you don’t want to kill your baby, have sex with someone of your own gender, or betray your country, the Democrats having nothing for you.”
Here’s the humdinger: Ben’s email address references something called the ‘Mainstream Coalition’ (!)
Gentle Ben, hate to break it to you, but your views appear to be, shall we say, rather out of the mainstream. More accurate to place them toward the whackjob side of aisle. Your views also don’t seem resonant with this organization:
http://www.mainstreamcoalition.org/
Enjoy hanging out in your fool’s paradise, deluding yourself that your views have any connection to those of the ‘majority.’
One of the most important outcomes of the 2008 election needs to be the removal of Pilshaw from office.
This judge was voted as one of the very worst judges of the 18th by hundreds of her legal peers.
The Republicans need to get busy and it would be great if they would bring a female to the election fray in 2008 to replace this judge.
Sedgwick County and our country at large need closure to Pilshaw’s court and antics.