From: Cliff on
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/08/rove-palin-pick-dumped-kansas
"Rove, Palin Pick Dumped in Kansas"
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Up against an opponent with backing from Kansas' tea partiers, Moran's campaign
won the primary by bolstering his conservative record and carefully courting the
party's moderate wing. Tiahrt took the opposite approach, and sought out the
state's most socially conservative voters. He scored endorsements from former
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, former Bush administration advisor Karl Rove, Fox News
host Sean Hannity, and conservative organizer Phyliss Schlaffly, among others.
That list of conservative luminaries, though, couldn't save Tiahrt, who lost the
Republican primary Tuesday night .....
]

Being the dumbest does not always win the rethug vote seems.
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Cliff