Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback’s national profile is rising, at least among late-night comedians. The "Weekend Update" segment of "Saturday Night Live," which just last month characterized Brownback as "so conservative he thinks watching ‘Will & Grace’ gives you AIDS," offered this joke over the weekend: "During last week’s Republican debate, three of the 10 candidates said they did not believe in evolution, including Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback, who added that he would defend his conviction from one edge of the Earth to the other."
Here’s what Bill Maher said: "Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee and Tom Tancredo — those were the three guys who said they do not believe in evolution. The irony will be on them when their campaigns die off in favor of stronger, fitter campaigns."
And Jay Leno: "Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee and Tom Tancredo all raised their paw. . . . They said they do not believe in evolution. Then they said the biggest threat to America is religious radicals living in the Dark Ages."
And Jon Stewart: "In case you missed it, raising their hands were Sam Brownback, Tom Tancredo and Mike Huckabee. They will be missed."
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Yep..he is good for a laugh. Like campaigning in Wisconsin and calls Peyton Manning the best quarterback in football. Oooops.. people in Wisconsin worship Bret Favre..and do NOT take lightly to anyone mentioning any other quarterback.
Oh well..Brownback is good for comic relief.
What’s the point here? If Sam doesn’t run in 2010, raise your hands on this multiple choicer,A. Sam will become follow Bob Dole (and Bill Grave’s) example, and a Beltway lobbyist and make millions of dollars.
B. Sam will follow Okllahoma Senator David Boren’s lead and become KU’s chancellor, to help Kansas’s young people and promote higher education as the key to Kansas’s 21st century prosperity.
C. Sam will return to Parker and take up his progenitor’s vocation of farming. He’ll be a champion of farmers’ subsidies.
D. Sam will become a small-town-Kansas lawyer, championing Great Plains farmers’ views.
This is just a straw poll. Vote now, with your comments. Farmgrrl, the alt-lifestyle voice of the rural Great Plains, post your view. Everybody else, do too.
who cares what he does?
E. Brownback will become a shill for Viagra.
F. Sam will become a “political analyst” at Fox News
Maybe he was just tired. That’s the excuse the press is letting Obama use to get by with his 10,000 dead Kansans comment. If Brownback were a former coke head, you probably wouldn’t give him a pass on that either.
At least Obama admitted to using drugs. I’m still waiting for George W. Bush to even answer the question! Not that anyone would even believe what he says now.
The top tier candidates are good for some laughs, too. This from the _Hightower Lowdown_, vol. 9, No. 5, May, 2007:
“Well, he declared this year, ‘I have a gun of my own.’ Uh…not exactly Mitt [Romney] – your son owns a gun, not you. Still he claims that he keeps son’s gun in his home. Which one? He owns homes in three states — just like your typical NRA hunter-guy, huh?
“Worse than a flip-flopper, Mit Romney simply can’t shoot straigt with the American people.”
Why worry about Sam Brownback’s future. He married money didn’t he?
This is a good sign Steven. Romney is warranting attention from the Dem shills like Hightower. Go Mitt!
Not sure what this has to do with Sam being funny, but what the heck.
I don’t mind so much that Brownback doesn’t believe the theory of evolution, but he also rejects out of hand Einstein’s theory of relativity and the science of physics. Unfortunately, both easily account for creation and even can provide proof of the existence of “god”. Blind, unthinking, non-critical belief in a religion is what created terrorism in the first place.
Well, the question was stupid. Do you believe in evolution? Duh. An equally controversial question would be, do you believe in gravity?
Still, each of the Three Stooges shot their hands up (they couldn’t get ‘em up fast enough), proving the old adage “it’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.”
Assuming, as surely they must have (!?!), that the question WAS serious, it surely merited some qualification? I know the GOP primaries are a trip back through the Dark Ages, but did Brownback or Huckabee stop to think for a second that the question was a simple test? To eliminate any obvious idiots from the field? And that anybody raising his lily white hand would flunk?
Jumpin’ jehosephat. Hopefully Brownback will slink off next to be seen in a tent on the edge of some small town on a summer night.
The Three Stooges, led by Augustus Stupidus. What in the hell has the GOP come to in the 21st century? Given the past 6 years, how can any thinking American trust another president hell bent to turn the pages of history back on the Dark Ages so he can force radical Islam to take a mulligan on the same Dark Ages?!?
I don’t believe in evolution either. It’s a scientific theory; it’s not a matter of belief. If something comes along that is better supported by the evidence, I’ll work with that instead. If Brownback could just fathom this simple point about science, that it’s a matter of empirical, reliable evidence explained by the best possible model which is subject to refinement whenever exceptions are found, then… well… I guess he wouldn’t be Sam Brownback anymore.
Republicans try to relegate everything into a belief system. Like the people that think man is aiding/causing global warming are “believers of global warming”, people that think mans physical development are the result of evolution, are “Darwin Worshipers”, or followers of Darwinism.I suppose it makes sense, if your own world views are the result of beliefs and not rational thought, how could you not use projectionism against those with opposite views?
Steve: You mean like “global warming deniers” or “evolution deniers”. Or maybe even “anti-choicers”.
Sorry bro, it ain’t a Republican thang.
Mitt: “I’ve always been a rodent and rabbit hunter. Small varmits, if you will.”
outlander it was about your candidate being a hoot, too. Hope he gets the nomination. I can hear the Dems singing “Happy days are here again” already…
“Hope he gets the nomination”
You and me both Steven. It would be great for America.
Mitt’s nomination would be a gift from you guys – with a large bow attached.
I would say:Thank you, thank you…AND”The skies above are clear, again,Happy Days are here again…”