Time magazine — in an item headlined “How can you tell a Brownback from a Vilsack?” — described the senior senator from Kansas as “a standard-bearer of the social right — with a twist. He speaks out against poverty, the genocide in Darfur and the war in Iraq.” The magazine also put Brownback at an improved 3 percent among potential GOP primary voters, after John McCain (30 percent), Rudolph Giuliani (26 percent), Newt Gingrich (14 percent) and Mitt Romney (5 percent).
Meanwhile, U.S. News & World Report shared “Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Sen. Sam Brownback.” For two: That he refused to sign the Contract With America in 1994 and that he was vice president of the national Future Farmers of America in 1976-77.
Posted by Rhonda Holman
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Rhonda: Are you having a “liason” with Brownback? If so, screw him literally. If not, screw him, figuratively. He’s a waste of all of our energies.
…Yawn!
Time rates him above the others, are you KIDDING me?
There is no way in hell.
Sammy is a quality senator. He’s well-spoken and very bright. One never knows how far he’ll go…
…down in the polls.
GNut: Please tell me that you forgot to wink when you posted that last comment. When the ‘08 elections are over, Sammy will among the unemployed until Phillkline gives him a position in Operation Rescue, or whatever it is they’ve reorganized into to beat the tax rap.
“He voted against holding bankrupt companies accountable for their workers’ pensions. He voted against extending federal health insurance to U.S. Steel workers. He voted against protecting textile workers from international trade agreements. He voted against providing mortgage assistance or wage insurance to workers who lose their jobs due to international trade agreements. And he voted against assistance for manufacturing employees who lose their jobs through outsourcing.”
Brownback against poverty? He doesn’t always vote that way. Before announcing his run for presidency he was for increasing the number of troops in Iraq (way back in Dec. 2006). We shouldn’t expect more than the usual whitewash from the Eagle when it comes to polishing the knob of conservative Republicans.
Brownback is another religious fanatic. Once people find this out for themselves, it will be all over for him. The majority of Americans don’t want another religious zealot being President.Brownback wants the bible to be the Constitution of the United States.
The only thing that Brownback has said that I liked was a flat tax.I would be in favor of a fair flat tax. But that too is a wishful dream. Too many have a finger in the pie for it ever to be a reality.
Rhonda: Are you or the Eagle being paid for all of these Brownback blog items? Why is a candidate with no real chance to win being given so much press?
BTW, what was the margin of error in the magazine poll? I would guess that once that margin is accounted for, Brownback’s support from GOP voters is somewhere between -2 and +3. In other words, don’t expect a winter storm in hell anytime soon for our wacked out religious nutcase Senator.
Rhonda realizes that when a senator from your state runs for president and is making national news, it is a worthy subject for discussion.
He obviously isn’t going to be the Repub nominee, but he is raising his profile enough that VP is a possibility in the right circumstance. Nothing wrong with ambition.
http://www.wnbc.com/politics/10934820/detail.html
Like this circumstance.
Giuliani/Brownback ‘08 ?
That would be hypocricy in action there outlander.
So very fitting of the Republicon Party.
In politics, they call that balancing the ticket Mom.
Remember Gore/Leiberman?
No, at least both candidates there were sane choices.
I bet you money, if Brownback ran with Guliani, Guiliani would LOSE votes.
The fundies making one of their own second banana to a fornicator?
Unh-uh. I don’t see it.
Wouldn’t be my first choice either. But I could see it happening.
Bownback and Guliani are on opposite sides of the abortion and gay issues.There will not be a Guliani/Brownback ticket.Having Lieberman on the Democratic ticket lost Gore votes. I am a strong Democratic person, but I didn’t want a Jew being a heart beat away from the Presidency. I probable felt the same way people thought about Kennedy being a Catholic.