What's The Matter With Kansas?

Yet another indication that the Republican Party’s reign is coming to an end, nine former Republican’s in uber red state Kansas are running as Democrats on the ballot in November.  It has become clear that people who have been Republicans their entire lives can no longer stand behind a party with folks like Republican Phil Kline, who became infamous in 2003 for attempting to gain access to the patient records of women who have had abortions.  Kline also drafted legislation restricting late-term abortion and saught to require health workers to report the sexual activities of girls under 16.  Paul Morrison, a prosecutor, is running against Kline for Attorney General.  Morrison is raising more money than Kline and from more Republicans than Democrats. 

Mark Parkinson, a former chairman of the Kansas Republican Party, has also changed parties to run for lieutenant governor with Democratic governor, Kathleen Sebelius.  Sebelius also converted her last lieutenant governor, John Moore, who is pro-choice, to the Democratic Party in 2002. 

With Representative Dennis Moore, who has a 100% pro-choice rating from Planned Parenthood, currently Kansas’s only Democrat in Congress, this move to the left could make a significant change for the state, for women in Kansas and for the Democratic Party.