Live from the Republican' Self-Made Gehenna: Mind you, the "moderate" Kansas Republican was the only other person besides Paul Ryan ever on the Republican national ticket to attend the RNC and endorse Trump. But this new bunch of Kansas Republicans will not be as crazy:
DJW: Last Night's Primaries:
A bad night for team Brownback:
At least 10 conservative Republicans in the Kansas Legislature have lost their seats in the primary election... Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce... Tom Arpke... Forrest Knox... Jeff Melcher... and Greg Smith of Overland Park. At least five conservative Republicans in the House lost... as well, all of them in Johnson County... Rob Bruchman... Brett Hildabrand... Jerry Lunn... Charles Macheers of Shawnee and Craig McPherson.... Moderate Republicans made the election a referendum on the state’s budget problems and battles over education funding.
And:
Ed Morrissey: How Did Tim Huelskamp Lose His Primary that Badly?:
Kansas Congressman Tim Huelskamp... lost his primary battle against Roger Marshall... in... a landslide....
Marshall had 57 percent of the vote to Huelskamp’s 43 percent when The Associated Press called the race....
The incumbent had the backing of... Americans for Prosperity and Club for Growth, while Marshall was getting a ton of monetary support from... the US Chamber of Commerce.... A GOP base which was supposedly so opposed to the establishment and business as usual in the GOP that they nominated Donald Trump for president. Huelskamp was about as “outsider” as they come... removed from key leadership positions by John Boehner’s supporters, along with Justin Amash and David Schweikert.... Marshall ran a campaign in which he accused his opponent of doing more “grandstanding” than actual work....
In the end, however, I suspect it just came down to the money... outside groups poured more than $2.5 million into the massive, 63-county stretch of Kansas farmland. Much of the advertising litigated Huelskamp’s commitment to supporting local agriculture in Congress...
It looks to me like Tim Huelskamp ran against Washington, and then spent six years in Washington and so became Washington--and the Republican primary voters of western Kansas didn't see any of the benefits of his election that Huelskamp had promised them...
