In an article headlined “Looking for Mr. Right” that might have been all about Sam Brownback’s presidential prospects, Time magazine breezes past him in a few lines, concluding that evangelicals love him but are “skeptical that the Kansas Senator can broaden his appeal enough beyond religious voters.” Among the far-right candidates more likely to succeed, the article concludes, would be outgoing Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and retiring Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (who shows no sign of running).
Meanwhile, Sportsbook.com gave Brownback 8-1 odds Friday to win his party’s nomination, compared with 6-5 odds each for John McCain and Rudy Giuliani. In truth, Brownback should be grateful to be acknowledged by the oddsmakers, given that he has pushed on Capitol Hill to outlaw betting on college sports and Internet gambling.
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Enough with the Brownback presidental talk. Its nothing but a pipe dream. Hes a conservative hack whos just now trying to save his politcal ass after rubber-stamping each and every Bush proposal there has been in the past six years.
We have already tried a neo-con for prez. and look to where it has gotten us to present day
Brownback and Kline are the ones that have TOTALLY screwed up the Kansas Republican Party. TOday’s leaders are known more for their fundraising efforts than proper leadership and judgement.
Brownback doesn’t have much chance at being elected President. He pissed off conservatives with his “Amnesty for Illegals” immigration stance and liberals for blocking the appointment of an appelate judge for attending a friend’s gay civil union ceremony. He doesn’t have the judgement or the political acumen Americans expect from a person they elect as President.
Thie time is past for wetback loving, invade the world, invite the world globalist traitor scum like yellowback.
Viva la Revolucion Blanco!!
Brownback is too Religious Conservative to be taken seriously for president. But I cannot help but laugh when I read the others that were rated more suitable = Jeb Bush? Newt Gingrich? Gingrich has multiple divorces. Jeb Bush – what has he done besides make sure his brother ‘won’ Florida in 2000?
The Republicans are in a tight spot here and they can give all the thanks to them letting the Religious Right hijack their party (of course, they needed the RR to sidetrack the voters on gay marriage and abortion so Bush and Cheney can focus on getting that Iraq oil).
All Brownback will get out of this is what many wannabes get (can you say Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Kusinech) A “former presidential candidate” tag after their name. That’s something I guess, but not much.
Holman’s comment about gambling at the end is the kind of vacuous stupidity that demonstrates it’s time to shove the useless hippie dippy generation out the door and get someone whose brain isn’t having bad trip flashbacks to comment on the day’s events.
My oh my – looks like somebody got up on the wrong side of the bed this moring. A little bitter perhaps?
Why the bias labeling? Brownback is called far right by the Eagle’s editorial board, but no Democrat is ever called far left. Every one of the Democrats running for president or will soon announce they are running, are all far left. The Democrat leadership in the Congress are all far left.
Good point, Gary. I have noticed in the last couple of years, that the MSM have been called out on the labels they use, and are trying to be more careful with the “conservative/liberal” labels. Obviously, there is more work to do.
“All far left”?Hardly. The label is something used to smear your opponent, a la Kerry the “MA liberal”. It all depends on your definition of centre.
Its a shame, but politics is steadily descending into a school beauty pagent, as the essential elements required by a competitor are:- beauty (Romney, Obama, Edwards)- name recognition (Guiliani, Clinton)- money (Romney, Guiliani, Clinton)
How come issues are so unimportant? If issues were important then pro choice Guiliani would be dead in the water, pro war (for a Dem) Clinton would be struggling, and candidates like Hagel would be leading the pack.
If experience were important, then Bill Richardson would be top rated while Obama would be ignored. Romney would be asked to try and win re-election.
But no, instead the tactics are:- raise money- get national name recognition- raise money- spin the past, you actually made no mistakes at all- spin the past, your opponents are evil enemies of the state- raise money- win election.
Very sad.
I admire his belief in the Lord, I love Jesus too. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt that he isn’t just using it to gain political clout amongst certain voters.
On the other hand, Bush has shown us just how dangerous these neo-cons can be. We are supposed to have a secular government. That is what allows us to even be Christians in the first place.
I also do not support the crusade mentality. This is also a free country, one where their are laws, BUT… one can break those laws and know with certainty that the government does not posess unreasonable power to persecute one for doing so. In plain english, one can drive 70 in a 65 zone and the government cannot hook up to the computer of our car and write tickets based on information stored there. If they are caught fair and square, fine.
One can grow a couple of pot plants in their garage, and as long as they don’t sell it, operate a car high on it, they are fine. But if your whole house is a pot farm, and cars are coming and going all all hours of the night, and kids are getting it, alarms will go off, and you will get a deserved prison sentence.
The neo-cons like this guy want to take what is deemed prudent government authority and expand it, using certain issues such as terror or protecting kids as their justification. So they operate multi-million dollar aircraft to fly over communities trying to detect the type of radiation a grow light gives off, look through your walls with infra red, data mine your credit card companies, phone calls, and e-mails.
The ends do not justify the means. No matter how “bad” something is, our government not being severely limited and transperent means America is dead.
AMERICA IS DEAD… it’s already too late, the court is stacked and will be for another 30 years, we are just to preoccupied with our cable TV to realize what it’s all come to.
Its going to be Gov. Mike Huckabee. The social conservatives are going to LOVE him:http://www.mikehuckabeepresident2008.blogspot.com