<table> </table> Say this for Phill Kline: He&#8217;s a source of endless entertainment, as long as you&#8217;re a fan of car wrecks. Our boy Phill is practically a one-man demolition derby.</p><p>The latest:</p><p>Legal experts question whether it&#8217;s ethical for JoCo&#8217;s party-hack-appointed DA to prosecute abortion clinics while at the same time using a Web site to seek donations and speaking engagements to rail against what else?</p><p>The same abortion provider he&#8217;s prosecuting.</p><p>That&#8217;s crossing an ethical line, experts said in a story published on Saturday&#8217;s front page.</p><p>We could argue all day about whether Kline is violating a legal code of conduct. I say he is, and it took me only a split second to reach that conclusion. Whereas Kline can do no wrong in the eyes of his patrons in the right-to-life movement. They adore him for his stop-at-nothing passion.</p><p>What is beyond debate is that, with Kline, it has been one thing after another. So I can fully understand why Kansas GOP officials are throwing fits over news that Kline may renege on his promise to sit out this year&#8217;s election.</p><p>Imagine their horror upon learning of the draft-Kline movement. And that it&#8217;s entirely possible he will run for a full term as Johnson County district attorney.</p><p>Or at least won&#8217;t rule it out.</p><p>Clearly that would spell trouble for Steve Howe, who has the backing of GOP party leaders to run for the DA job that he lost to Kline by a vote of 316-291 at a special party convention in December 2006.</p><p>Howe is going to have a tough time of it and wasn&#8217;t planning on a primary contest, or a three-way race should Kline decide to run as an independent.</p><p>Meanwhile, it&#8217;s also understandable why Democrats are aching to have Kline in the race.</p><p>&#8220;In fact, it has been suggested to me that the Democratic Party ought to pay his filing fee,&#8221; Johnson County Democratic Party chairman Bill Roy Jr. told me.</p><p>That&#8217;s not going to happen. They wouldn&#8217;t want to be that obvious.</p><p>But it&#8217;s clear that the biggest beneficiary of a Kline candidacy is the Democrats.</p><p>However, amid all the speculation, I think the Democrats and Republicans are forgetting something. As in it doesn&#8217;t matter whether Kline does or doesn&#8217;t run for re-election.</p><p>Fact is, the race for Johnson County DA is going to be all about Phill Kline, regardless of whether his name is on the ballot.</p><p>Sure, the campaigns of Howe and Democrat Rick Guinn will focus on their own prosecutorial experience. Both worked for Paul Morrison, the former DA and now disgraced former state attorney general.</p><p>But other leading issues in the campaign are Kline-centered. For instance, how and why Kline was picked by party insiders to fill out Morrison&#8217;s term in Johnson County.</p><p>To get the job, did he make some secret deal to go after Planned Parenthood, as some suspect, despite clear indications that the electorate couldn&#8217;t stomach him? (Kline got only 35 percent of the vote in heavily Republican Johnson County in his failed November 2006 re-election bid as state attorney general.) And if so, isn&#8217;t that a blemish on the county party?</p><p>To what extent did the DA&#8217;s office deteriorate in effectiveness under his leadership?</p><p>On and on.</p><p>So in some ways, Kline might as well run. That way he could directly answer the criticism that would be coming his way from Democrats and &#8212; if it becomes a three-way race &#8212; his own Republican Party.</p><p>Either way, it promises to be a lot of fun for all us Phill watchers. My only regret is the guaranteed lack of suspense.</p><p>Because no matter how the race develops, there&#8217;s one thing we can count on: After the ballots are counted, Kline will be cleaning out his desk in the county courthouse.</p><p>I&#8217;m pretty sure he knows that. Which makes his coyness on the issue of running all the more interesting.</p><p>That&#8217;s the other thing I like about Phill. He&#8217;s never without an angle.