This, from The National Review in 2014, is fairly amusing given how things played out:
Sam Brownback might not be a household name yet, but Grover Norquist says that’s going to change in 2015. The Kansas governor, who ran a short presidential bid in 2008 and served in the Senate for a decade and a half, has a big fan in the Americans for Tax Reform head. Norquist tells National Review Online that Brownback is strategically positioned for a 2016 presidential bid, and that he’ll be a competitive candidate.
One thing Norquist likes: Brownback’s politically aggressive governorship. When he won the governorship in 2010, Brownback inherited a state legislature composed of what Norquist calls a conservative House and a Republican-but-insufficiently-conservative Senate.
What isn’t amusing his how Brownback created a budgetary clusterfuck by cutting taxes on wealthy Kansans. When the Laffer Curve snake oil predictably failed, it was less than funny when he stuck his state’s poor and middle class with a HUGE tax increase in the form of the country’s highest and most regressive sales tax.