If Lightner picks up serious support, there is no way either she or Kobach can win the primary.
I am G--d----- tired of conservatives splitting the conservative field in primaries. Are we completely incapable of being team players?
Hopefully she'd pick up more Taff voters, but...
"I am G--d----- tired of conservatives splitting the conservative field in primaries. Are we completely incapable of being team players?"
It's not an issue of "Conservatives" being team players, it's about Republicans (authentic or self-proclaimed) being team players in this particular district. The anger and bitterness between the Conservatives and Moderates (sic) RINOs in this district are considerable. Conservatives won't vote in the general for a pro-abort RINO. RINO "moderates" won't vote for an unapologetic Conservative. Dennis Moore benefits from the split either way. I think Kobach will end up being another Phill Kline (not necessarily a bad deal, Kline lost the race in '00, but won the State Attorney-General job 2 years later), and Taff will probably duplicate his loss in the general again (if he is nominated). Lightner is the 3rd way, she's not a male (the predecessor to Vince Snowbarger, the last GOP-Conservative, was a woman), she IS Conservative, she's a proven-vote getter (Kobach failed in his last race to win a State Senate race), and I believe she is the best of all the candidates to take on Moore (who can't villify her as he might all his male opponents).