By running better candidates and convincing most voters of the difference between them.
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Yeah, whatever happened to that guy? 
There’s never a legitimate 2nd Amendment option! Unless you employ southwestern snark.
Other questions in the hearing centered on the best interests of Kansas voters in leaving Taylor’s name on the ballot when he’s officially declared that he’s incapable of serving if elected. To paraphrase the Justice who went down this line, how does that best serve the voter’s interest by leaving the candidate’s name on the ballot when he’s officially withdrawn from the race, and will not serve? Greim had no applicable reply. Kobach’s status on Robert’s campaign was only brought up by Ironogaruay in passing. That fact was never really an issue in the arguments. The arguments focused much more on what aspects of the law Kobach was choosing to enforce, whether those choices were arbitrary, and whether those choices were uniformly applied to everyone who withdrew their names from the ballot. Team Kobach did not do well at all. Their whole attitude was that Kobach was entitled to perform his job as he see fit, and that the questions and challenges to his decisions were an unnecessary nuissance in the performance of those official duties.
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He won’t. It would destroy any credible chance he would ever have for higher office in Kansas.
“Bless his Grinchly little heart!”
Should we wake Plucky? He’s having a great dream. Or She’s.
Well, you do go to trial with the client you have, not the client you wish you had.
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Well, that’s Teabagger 101. Once a tea bagger has explained the law, a judge should not…judge.
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It’s a dream of mine to see the Terrapin in an unemployment line.
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Shades of Rumsfeld.
KY is probably lost for the Dems at this point (Grimes needed to run a Grade A campaign and has only run a B+ one at best). GA is still possible but will likewise require Michelle Nunn to be just about perfect from here on out.
Of course it was snark.
After this I’ll offer an indication of such.
Kobach needs a good smack-down, and it would seem the good justices are willing to oblige.
For real? Good stuff. National Review calls her a “liberal extremist.”
The unasked question is Will Kobach go to prison for his intentional obstruction of the voting process?
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I’d like to see that entire quartet they use in the stock photo, all doing a perp-walk.
Senator Thune, Senator Cornyn, Senator Barrasshole, and most of all Senator Yertle (R-Turtle).
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I just realized that I, too, can be a lawyer. Just spout a bunch of garbage in front of the court and they’ll give you the time of day. Other letters, less compliant with the law, were accepted. End of story. His name should be removed from the ballot.
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Spendism?
“does it require that someone just say they’re incapable, or actually be incapable?”
I was wondering that too. (and as much as I want him off the ballot I do think there is some state interest in such things not being taken lightly.)
What would make you incapable of being a Senator? Discovering you are allergic to the upholstered Senate chairs? It’s not as if you have to be able to lift so many reams of paper or have completed your Bachelor of Senate Stuff. Really bad health is no problem - you just rest up for a year or two.
It did not seem that any of the other letters gave reasons - at least none were mentioned.
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