re: #56 funky chicken

Well, since I watched something very similar happen in Kansas 20 years ago, let me give you my best hypothesis. The creationists made a major effort, starting at the smallest, most seemingly inconsequential levels, to take over the party. They showed up in force at every single meeting, worked like crazy at every GOP function, etc. Gradually, over a decade or more, they took over pretty much every facet of the state GOP. It happened quicker in KS because KS is a smaller state.

And now KS has a democrat governor, and resurgent democrat party.

Gives me an opportunity to dump one of my favorite quotes, with a slight alteration:

“When you say “radical right” today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party away from the Republican Party, and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics the GOPgoodbye.”