Political celebrities weighing in on Kansas races

Some well-known pundits and advocates have weighed in on Kansas’ weirdly competitive campaigns. Ann Coulter wrote that Sen. Pat “Roberts is likely to win in Kansas as soon as the ‘independent’ candidate, Greg Orman, is forced to take a position on something – anything – and conservative Kansas voters realize he’s the Democrat.” “What’s the Matter With Kansas?” author Thomas Frank wrote a column for Salon headlined, “In Brownbackistan, everything is awesome! And don’t let any liberal tell you different,” in which he called Gov. Sam Brownback’s Kansas “a microcosm of everything that is wrong and disastrous with conservative governance.” Calling the contest for Kansas governor “the most important race in America,” Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform praised Brownback in Human Events for having had the “courage to challenge anti-reform Republicans in primaries” and phase out state income taxes. And Michael Tomasky wrote for the Daily Beast that “the significance of a Republican incumbent governor losing in Kansas would be pretty great, although obviously it wouldn’t impact 2016, since a Democratic presidential candidate will win Kansas the same year the great and powerful Oz returns in his hot-air balloon to the state fair.” – Rhonda Holman

This story was originally published September 22, 2014 at 7:06 PM with the headline "Political celebrities weighing in on Kansas races."