Snakes in the Kansas Grass
By Erick Posted in 2008 | Kansas | KS-02 — Comments (7) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
The Kansas Progress has an important post you all should read.
The Kansas Republican Party recently voted 82-60 that they have "no confidence" in Steve Cloud of Lenexa, KS. He's one of Kansas's Republican National Committeemen.
Cloud is a member of the "Kansas Traditional Republican Majority," ("KTRM") which is not a traditional values group, no, it supports a traditional Republican majority that is liberal, pro-abortion, and in favor of taxes. Cloud apparently event encouraged people to send money to KTRM and avoid sending money to the evil rightwingers at the Kansas Republican Party.
As Kansas Progress notes, Cindy Neighbors, a liberal Republican, lost a bid for re-election to pro-life Republican Mary Pilcher Cook in 2004. How did Cloud take the news? He said
The bad news is that people like Cindy Neighbor lost and people like Rob Boyer lost. Those are shining stars in the Republican Party, and the conservatives beat them, and that's a travesty."
FWIW, Cindy Neighbors, once a liberal, tax and spend, pro-choice Republican, is now a Democrat.
Conservatives need to keep a sharp eye out for snakes in the grass like Steve Cloud. No doubt he's supporting Lynn Jenkins in KS-02.
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Many people who wish to enter public service, (or just want power) find themselves living in deep red states, and know they have to be under the Republican label in order to get elected, even though they personally aren't conservative.
If these same people were living in a blue state, they would label themselves as Democrats. To them it's just a meaningless label they have to use to get to where they are going.
Conservatives need to be diligent, although reasonable, in weeding these people out of our party. In especially conservative states like Kansas, there is just no excuse for RINOs in office.
"Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich. "
William F. Buckley, Jr.
I don't know if you heard of Chris Koster, the state senator from Western Missouri who was running for attorney general and then switched parties, now declaring himself to be pro-abortion, and having always been pro embryonic stem cell research. He could be a textbook case of that. Glad you pointed it out. It may not be just that RINO's have liberal streaks in them, but deep down they are not Republicans at all, and are simply wolves among sheep, so to speak
"You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be reealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe."
--John Adams
I thought RINOs were on the endangered species list?
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I live in Texas, and I recently attended an event where my state representative spoke about how liberal the Republicans in the state legislature were. It's part of the reason that so many bizarre and irnoic events took place in the last legislative session. If the outcome hadn't been so destructive, they would be comical.
I don't think Republican primary voters pay attention. I don't know if this is a recent trend, and I don't know if it happens with Democrats too, but Republican primary voters are without question in some kind of daze. Why they vote in primaries puzzles me greatly. We end up with a legislature that doesn't represent its constituents. I really don't think primaries should be open to the general public. Most of the people don't know what they are doing, and they ought to have to be more involved or knowledgeable to vote in a primary.
I don't know about Kansas. Given what I've seen, I would assume it is a liberal state. Their ultra-liberal governor has the support of a majority of both conservatives and Republicans. If it has not turned liberal in recent years, the voters must really be tuned out.
I was an intern for a conservative research institute in Austin this past session, and was appalled by how many "conservative" legislators would not listen to us, and turned their back on what they said they held dear. But we were very encouraged by the ones who did stay true.
Menlo, are you anywhere near Austin?
"You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be reealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe."
--John Adams
Thankfully, I don't. I live up in Ken Paxton's district. He said he was starting a committee or something to make attempts to get the Republicans to represent their constituents. I do hope something happens to get Texas Republican voters to pay attention in the primaries and not just vote for incumbents or those who have name recognition.
This was actually my first year to really pay attention to the state legislature. I couldn't believe my ears when I heard an interview with David Swinford on the radio. How many of his voters are going to find out he said that he couldn't care less about them?! Then my own senator gets a Muslim cleric to lead the state senate's first Muslim prayer in Texas history right before Easter. Nothing gets done in the house (despite passing the 2/3 hurdle in the senate) because they were too busy arguing over who would make the best speaeker. Then the the voter ID bill dies by one vote only because one Democrat who had been in surgery gets wheeled in the room just as his name is called for a vote. Instead, they pass bathroom regulations for businesses. I can't understand why no conservatives are choosing to run. The Democrats certainly don't have trouble getting liberals all the time. If only everyone were like Dan Patrick.
From what I heard, the last couple of sessions were really the first ones in Texas history where conservatives were starting to make any headway. Apparently, it took the voters a VERY long time just to learn that Democrats stopped representing them decades ago. I wonder how much longer it will take the Republicans to see their mistakes.
Whether they're big-government, high-taxes, pro-choice, anti-gun or whatever the panoply of leftist causes some Republicans take on, it's very discouraging to see those people in positions of power.
Let's keep encouraging the true conservatives, and let them know how much they rock! Thankfully there are still some left!
"You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe."
--John Adams