What Will Ryun Do Next?

One may always hope for a Christian conservative to lose to a moderate like Nancy Boyda. It happened and we can be proud of Kansas's split congressional delegation. Jerry Moran may end up voting with Moore and Boyda more often than not, leaving Tiahrt as a minority of one.

I'll bet Ryun won't return to Kansas. My hunch is that he will go to work in Washington, D.C. for some fundamentalist Christian group like Family Research Council. Before Ryun went to Congress, he was founder and president of Jim Ryun Sports, Inc., a national client public relations company, based in Lawrence, Kansas. My guess is that a ten year dormancy will make that business hard to resurrect. Once tasting the Washington lifestyle, even Lawrence would seem mundane. We'll have to wait and see, but it seems to be the pattern.