Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback has moved up a smidge in the GOP presidential polls, but not enough. Even the man whose former Senate seat he now holds, Bob Dole, recently said, “He’s a long shot. He needs to do very well in Iowa.”
The Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody said Brownback knows it all comes down to Iowa for him, starting with the Iowa Straw Poll in August. Brody said that among evangelical leaders, “the sense is that he simply can’t raise enough money like the big boys and he doesn’t have that dynamic and strong personality like the other big three” — Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney. Brody added, “Maybe Brownback needs to take his cue from Dr. Seuss: I am Sam. Yes, I can.”
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Sam is never going to get anywhere with his bid – he’s too radical.
I don’t even think discussing him is interesting. Dole’s comment that he is a ‘long shot’ is very kind overstatement.
Brownback has LITERALLY NO CHANCE.
I’m not sure it’s newsworthy just because someone announces his/her candidacy. Folks do it all the time.
I’m not sure how Brownback got elected to his current office in the first place.
I think just the fact that he WAS elected is reason enough to demand ID from ALL voters.
Now G do you really think anyone that voted for him would want you to know who they were!
Brownjerk best enjoy Iowa. It the end of the road for this joke of a campaign.
Brownback is a good man and a good senator. But at this point, he isn’t presidential timber. VP? Maybe, under the right circumstances.
It’s down to Guiliani and Romney in IMO. I still think it will be Romney.
outlander – what do you think of a possible Giuliana/Brownback ticket? East Coast + MidWest. Moderate + Conservative. Could be an intriguing combination.
Ben: A thrice married Yankee and a born again idiot? If that’s what it comes down to, there’s not even any point in having an election.
Outie: Rightly or wrongly, America is not going to elect a Mormon. Romney doesn’t have a chance, either.
Frankly, Richardson and Huckabee are the only two that stand a ghost of a chance, but I don’t think either has the name recognition to win. The closest thing we’ll get to a win in keeping Billary out.
rm – other than jumping off a bridge what do you do if it is Brownback vs Hillary?
Unfair question, Ben! You just took away my only option. :)
Rudy’s Rise’America’s mayor’ has pulled ahead of the other GOP candidates in the early stages of the White House race, according to the latest NEWSWEEK poll.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17435176/site/newsweek/
Polls in the article also indicate that Giuliana would win the general election.
With any luck what so ever, we will be spared the candidacy of Rudy McRomney and the Republicans will put up a viable candidate to oppose Barack Obama. If the GOP had any smarts, they would dump the bunch of them and focus on a Chuck Hagel or similar candidate. Brownback has zip chance, but he certainly brings comic relief to the primary season.
Hagel would be a formidable general election candidate. Don’t think the swift-boaters would tolerate him though.
RM, if Sam Brownback is elected president, we can jump off the bridge together. I imagine we could get Ben and a few others to take the plunge with us.
Yep! You got that right, pal. BTW, I forgot Hagel…but, he’s got the same name recognition problem as the other two — actually, he impresses the hell out of me, but Ben has a point about the swiftboaters!
An interesting factor with hagel: the season starts in Iowa. That should be fertile ground for him. Then New Hampshire which is also very “retail” politics. Who knows?
Question: Who was the democratic front-runner on March 4, 1991?
Bill Bradley, Al Gore, Douglas Wilder, Bob Kerrey, Tom Harkin, Paul Tsongas, and Edmund G. Brown were all candidates for the Dems in 1991/1992. Most analysts believed that George HW Bush was unbeatable and therefore the top Dems stayed out of the battle.
Mario Cuomo had dropped out of the race before it began. Many think that Cuomo would have defeated Clinton in the primaries and George the Smarter in the General.
The political landscape is much different this season, since there will be no sitting president or VP running.
I agree with your point, however Ben, there is a LONG way to go before we get serious about electing a janitor to clean up after George.
I beg to differ with the scenario you outline, WSC.
Clinton was a southerner as was Carter as was LBJ.
We haven’t had a Northeast liberal win since JFK, and even that was statistically a tie with Nixon.
The Old South still has a lot of electoral votes (despite the dropping percentage of rural population), and being Southerners first and Americans second, they tend to vote for their own (except if your name is Al Gore, apparently).
So I don’t see Cuomo winning any southern states and that’d make winning the WH awfully difficult.
Well, Capn’ in ‘92 Clinton only took Georgia from the Southern states and that was by less than 1%. Bill also took border states TN and KY. Other than that, he took the West Coast, NM and CO and traditional Dem states of the Upper midwest and NE.
Cuomo proably would have taken those states as well. In ‘92, Clinton took over 68% of the Electoral College votes. It is likely that Cuomo would have done the same.
It is all academic, since Cuomo did not run and Clinton beat both Bush I and Perot.
I do feel that SOME regional biases are being broken down. Georgia, for example, is becoming much more liberal than it was back in the Lestor Maddox days.
As for me, I like those young, inexperienced half-rican candidates from Illinois.
If he doesn’t win the nomination, I’ll vote for the lesbian from NY or even the faggot from NC.
WSC – I’m with you on this one. One thing I do NOT see happening in 2008 is a repeat of the ‘left’ deserting the Democratic candidate to go with a third party. Had Gore held his flank he would have won handily.
Had Gore not distanced himself from Clinton, he would have won handily, the SCOTUS would never had a chance to take our vote away and we would not have to tolerate listening to Pickles trying to explain the War on Iraq.
The only worse Dem campaign in the last fifty years was John (No Balls) Kerry in 2004.
I agree with you on Cuomo WSC. I think what needs to be done is to support an Obama/Cuomo ticket. In lieu of that, a Hillary/Edwards ticket.
Hey, troll boy . . . you lack both the panache and my typekey account.
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Oops…
I meant to say if a picture of Worst.President.Ever.DOES come up.it’s not me.
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