The debate performance of Kansas’ senior senator underwhelmed T.J. Walker on, of all things, National Review Online: “Sam Brownback seems like a nice man. In fact, he reminds me of my third-grade Sunday School teacher. Unfortunately, Brownback seems as presidential as my third-grade Sunday School teacher.”
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He’s no less presidential than Bush, hey they’re even both creationist, aren’t they. Maybe if Brownback could develop a swagger and a more arrogant personna, his true potential could be appreciated.
… as a 4th Grade Sunday School Teacher ?
Sam, T.J. knows nothing! God loves you and supports ONLY you, Sam. Quit the Senate…..run for president full time. Shows us you really, really believe.Come on, Sam. Show us.
He has been running full time for about 6 months now —- when is he gonna get back to his day job ?
God told him to run. That is why he is doing it.
He actually believes he can win, because God destined him to win.
When he loses, then he will say that God has other plans for him. To stay in the Senate.
“He has been running full time for about 6 months now —- when is he gonna get back to his day job ?”
You mean his full time job as god’s senator? heheheheheheh
If roberts is bush’s senator, and brownieback is god’s senator…
…who represents Kansas?
Actually, I think we are all better off when he is tilting windmills on the campaign trail than when he is in the senate creating and supporting reich wing mischief.
The Republicans are all a bunch of demons and as bad as a barrel of rotten Sushi. I just don’t know which if them is worst!
“God told him to run. That is why he is doing it.
He actually believes he can win, because God destined him to win.
When he loses, then he will say that God has other plans for him. To stay in the Senate.”
God did tell him to run- away from the Republican Party lest he be sent to eternal Hell with the rest of the neo facist! I guess he didn’t hear the whole message and only got the “run” part. If Brownback has any sense, he will do what God wants and say “today I am not only withdrawing from the race for President but I am also announcing that I am resigning from the Republican Party and joining the human race again”. He’d get my vote!
Sam the Sham is just too damned preachy. It plays to evangelical wingnuts but as soon as he gets in front of real people… even real Republicans… he grates against people who are inclined to vote for somone who’ll put his hand on the Bible and swear to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, instead of the other way around.
Brownback’s strategy is to stay alive in a multi-candidate primary with the Twice-Born vote; the people who’ve provided the margin of victory (such as it was in, say, 2000) for the GOP.
This is a Vice-Presidential run for Sammy. Perhaps he can get on the ticket in 2008; most assuredly the Republic Party will lose. Then Sam’ll try to assume the leadership position for 2012.
He will run until his wife’s capper’s weekly family runs out of money and influence.
Peggy Noonan had a column, just as she always does, in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal. She was talking about the debate. I’ve been hunting around trying to find it, but it’s useless, I’ll have to work from memory.
Her take on Brownback, at any rate, was something like, “Sam Brownback has sleepy eyes and he sounds like he means it on the social issues.”
Noonan clearly thinks Fred Thompson is the man for the job. She pretty much kicked Thursday night’s contestants into the curb.
To hear Noonan tell it, you don’t get the impression that Rudy G. will go the distance. Romney? Maybe. McCain’s not totally out of the running, either.
But when Freddie boy jumps in? Look out!
I hope McCain gets the nomination. Make the election a referendum on Bush’s war. A clear up-and-down vote by the American people.
McCain, like Bush’s fate hangs on Iraq, they’re both doomed.
It’s fun to try to predict this stuff, but who knows? The world might look different in the autumn of 2008. I would not have predicted, in the aftermath of Kerry’s defeat in ‘04, that the Dems would take back the House in ‘06.
The Brit mag The Economist, one of my all-time favorites, is always good about pointing out that you can never really see where these things are going. The neocon Kristol is in Time Magazine this week spinning it from a different angle. He found some damn way to predict a Republican win in ‘08.
If I had to guess, I would say the Repubs will come down to Romney vs. Thompson, and I think Thompson will get the nod. (Romney’s definitely a talker, though.)
Let’s say Thompson does prevail. He’d face Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, unless one of the underdogs find a gap.
Could Clinton or Obama beat Thompson? So many unknowns will be in play that it’s hard to see how that battle unfolds. The Republicans will be counting on presenting Thompson as a seasoned, sensible old buzzard to counteract whatever the Dems bring to the table.
It might work.
Thompson was on C-Span tonight giving a speech. He’s a talented communicator, wise enough to avoid the usual stentorian, “presidential” speaking style. It won’t surprise me at all if Republicans get behind him, and I predict that he’ll be hard for Clinton or Obama to beat.
thompson could be interesting. In a way he is similar to Obama – we don’t really know his positions all that well but we all like him.
McCain is an ignorant slut.
Yes. That would be a rewarding campaign to watch if you like poetic delivery. Thompson and Obama are both poetic speakers.