Hello, Gov. Brownback

The road to Cedar Crest just got a helluva lot easier for U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback.

Kansas Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh announced today that he’s out of the running for Kansas governor in 2010. Basically, he didn’t think he could pull out the W. That leaves Brownback in the race for the Republicans.

And if Sunday’s bit of rumoring is true, maybe Bill Kurtis running as a Democrat will give Senator Sam a run for his money in the November election.