Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., was among friends ideologically at Saturday’s Southern Republican Leadership Conference gathering in Memphis, during which he declared, “I am Sam Brownback and I am a Ronald Reagan Republican.”
But he barely registered in the straw poll, in which Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., blew away the rest of the field with 37 percent of the 1,427 votes (followed by Mitt Romney at 14 percent, George Allen and President Bush each with 10 percent, John McCain with nearly 5 percent and Mike Huckabee with 3.8 percent). Brownback received just 1.5 percent. One report told of the odd moment when Allen noisily did a Fox News interview at the back of the ballroom as Brownback was addressing the crowd; Allen later left the room and was heard declaring that “it’s impossible to do an interview with all that going on in there.”
Posted by Rhonda Holman
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And the surprise is? What does one expect from a Southern Republican Leadership Conference, all saints day? (That’s sarcasm!)
Maybe he’s a Catholic trying to get votes in the south.
Wasn’t surprised with Frist, because the straw poll was held in his state, but my bets on the Republican nominee is George Allen.
That is a freebie and a heads up to you leftist out there. Start right now to try to dig up dirt on him and stock pile on the ammunition, it’s going to be a very ugly fight in 2008.
Brownback, yet another right winger who is a legend in his own mind. Wassa matter, god not happy with his senator?
Brownback isn’t presidential material, to say the least. He’s not even senatorial material.
Interesting that at the SOUTHERN RLC someone from MASSACHUSETTS creamed Brownback.
I agree that Brownback is not presidential material… yet. But V.P. is a possibility, depending on who the nominee is and what is needed to balance out the ticket. That is probably his goal at this point anyway.
Watch Brownback claim that all the foolks who would have voted for him voted their support for bush!
Brilliant ploy that on Mc Cains part, making bush a write in.
I fear that this thread will not get much attention.I have a personal interest in seeing that this issue is discussed. I will be posting it extensively.
That last was meant to be posted on the mad cow thread. Sorry.
What does it matter how many votes he gets when he is “God’s Senator”?
Williams, I’m glad we agree on something.I met Sen. Allen last month in Washington. He’s the first true “conservative” worth getting excited about since Barry Goldwater.He’s also the first conservative I’ve ever met who can correctly use the phrase “free market economics” in a sentence.
1. Who the hell is George Allen?
2. Democrats haven’t run a dirty election since 1964, and they didn’t even need to then. Remember the little girl picking petals off a daisy and KA-BOOM atomic bomb blast!
About Goldwater, the Dems said, “in your guts, you know he’s nuts.”
That was nasty.
Thing is that I wish we had conservatives as GOOD as Goldwater these days . . .
We should have run a dirty campaign against Bush in 2000. Actually, all Gore would have had to do is honestly reveal Bush’s absolutely CRAPola record in Texas . . . tax cuts for the rich leading to huge deficits, NCLB failures, pandering to religious whack-os . . . pretty much just like now without the added bonus of war without end in the Mideast.