Kansas Secretary of State Chris Kobach had this to say at the Republican Party convention Feb. 20 in Overland Park, according to The Lawrence Journal World:“The ACLU and their fellow communist friends, the League of Women Voters — you can quote me on that, the communist League of Women Voters — the ACLU and the communist League of Women Voters sued,” Kobach said, making sure that reporters in the room heard him.Maybe that’s just good old boy politicking, pandering to a hard-right audience that assumes these nonpartisan groups are liberal.The American Civil Liberties Union has been a target of such contempt for years. Conservapedia.com describes the ACLU as “a leftist, secular-progressive organization.”Bashing the League of Women Voters is also not new. Back in 1995, the Los Angeles Times reported that California Republicans defeated a resolution that sought to honor the league on its 75th anniversary.