So be it. She will help us elect a Republican speaker and all that.
What we can't have is two conservative candidates if she runs. If Ryun can beat her in the primary, maybe he can win the general too. If he can't, then she's probably the better general-election candidate. Hopefully, if Jenkins runs, a popular conservative will also run and get Ryun to drop out.
All in all, it sounds like a sticky situation.
Having been rejected in the 2006 election why should we believe he can come back and win in 2007? I admit I haven't looked into it in any great detail, but I don't believe that the track record of politicians who were turned out of their office in one election then ran and were elected back to the same office in the next general election is very good.
All in all, it sounds like a sticky situation.
Indeed. They say that all politics is local, and it's no different here. We're paying the penalty for having a divided party and contested primaries are quite often the kiss of death. Roughly half the Republicans out here are people who think exactly like some of those who have posted on this very thread. The whole idea of the Republican party being a big tent is absolutely rejected by them. Unless you march in lockstep with them on abortion and creationism in schools and each and every issue they support you will get branded a liberal RINO apostate. Well, as you might imagine members of the more moderate wing of the party don't react well to being told that they aren't real Republicans. So you have the situation where if the candidate of one faction wins the primary then the supporters of the other faction either sit out the election or support the Democrat. It's cost us election after election, and could have cost more. And Kris Kobach isn't going to change it.