MSNBC’s First Read blog said it all when it said of the scene Tuesday at a New Hampshire speech by Sen. Sam Brownback, “You know your campaign is in trouble when there are photos like this one.” Later, some who attended the speech suggested the photograph was unfair, because it was taken after a number of students in the crowd of 35 to 75 people had left for afternoon classes. Of the senator’s performance at the debate a day later, a National Review Online scribe said: “Sen. Sam Brownback (R., Kan.), while re-establishing his credentials as a defender of the traditional family, said nothing that anyone will remember tomorrow.”
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Sam will provide comic relief and not much else for this campaign cycle. Too bad he’s from Kansas. It’ll give the nation something else to laugh at us for.
Sam needs to return to private life, but we’ll return him to office just as surely as the sun rises in the east.
Please Sam – just stay home. You are continuing the campaign of the RR from Kansas which portrays Kansans poorly in the national and international media.
You are talking and fewer and fewer people are listening – except the media which have a great time sizing you up. Please for the love of your God – find a new career path.
This is how he is investing his time when he should be representing US in the Senate?????
God still listening to Sam?
Yeah,
He will always be re elected here, but nationwide he is a joke. It’s a shame that the “normal” and great people I know here in Wichita don’t vote losers like Sam out of office. It’s our own fault we have an embarassment like him representing Kansas abroad.
How about we just, like, not elect him again?Novel idea I know, but worth a try.
You people amaze me.
There is no hint of scandal in Sam Brownback’s life.
We have a Congressman from New Orleans who stashes obviously illegal money in his freezer.
We have a Senator from Massachuesetts who is an obvious alcoholic, a man who actually killed someone through neglect, and possible DUI.
We have Senator Reid and his questionable land deals.
We have Senator Byrd, the former KKK leader.
We have Barney Frank. Illegal activity was done in his HOME, for profit, and he is still in office!
This is nuts.
Everyone who runs for President spends time away from their current, (usually elected) office.
All that you cynical hypocrite do, by heaping on your insults, is prove that you don’t like Sam Brownback.
You did not need to prove that point, I think we get it. We got it long, long ago.
This is what makes you so boring.
Several of our post Presidents were considered “long shots” before being elected.
Who appointed ANY of you to sit in the “smoke filled room” and determine who gets to take such a chance?
Perhaps we all have been appointed to do that, since (presumably) we are all able to vote?
He can’t stop yet! He hasn’t become eligible by the Federal Election Commission to receive federal matching funds. Why would we expect this scandal-free, outstanding candidate to quit before the coffers are replenished?
I am not impressed!
There are things about Brownback I like but I still wish he would abandon his Quixotic campaign. He ahs a chance to build a legacy for himself on human rights; especially Africa. Unfortunately what he is doing now detracts from that.
Sam (the Sham) has given Kansas his solemn promise that he won’t run for reelection in 2010. Then again, he gave us his solemn promise to represent Kansas in the United States Senate.
Brownback’s pathetic showing in the presidential race should alert all Kansans just how far out on the fringe the Republic Party has become in the state.
Remember when Nancy Landon Kassebaum was in the Senate? Even if you didn’t always agree with her, you respected her approach to representative government and she enjoyed near-universal respect from her colleagues and constituents. Despite his bouts as a partisan attack-dog, even Bob Dole worked across party lines to actually serve his state and his nation.
Brownback is the Senator from Opus Dei. His “Pro Life – Whole Life” pontificating means he thinks every sperm is sacred, but your sons and daughters should continue to die in Iraq for another 10 or 12 years.
Meanwhile, we’re still waiting for the report on the Iraq War fiasco Sen. Pat Roberts promised he’d deliver before the 2006 election.
With these two pseudo-conservatives, Kansas is a sad state.
“Meanwhile, we’re still waiting for the report on the Iraq War fiasco Sen. Pat Roberts promised he’d deliver before the 2006 election.”
Part 2 of the report was release soon after Rockefeller took over the committee.
“Brownback is the Senator from Opus Dei. His “Pro Life – Whole Life”
Long Time Poster First Time Lurker, did you read the article by Jeff Sharlet, who went undercover to do a story about the secret group known as the Fellowship? If not, here it is.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/9178374/gods_senator/
Thanks “?????????” –
I read it then and just reread it again.
A must-read for everyone.
That’s some scary stuff ???????! Thank you for the link — EVERYONE must read this and be warned of the dangers. This is much more frightening than terrorism!
40% more people would have shown up but they were Brownback supporters and they have a tendency to miss things like that.
Traditional Families aren’t all they’re believed to be.
Just how many successful Traditional Families do you know?
Here’s a video on Brownback’s popularity with the voters:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/05/audience-boos-brownbacks-proposal-to-ban-gay-marriage/
Gotta love all those boos.
It looks like a rival campaign sent all of the Brownback supporters an invitation to the rapture at the same date/time. Or maybe a rumor spread through the crowd that they were lynching gays in the parking lot, no self respecting Brownback supporter would turn down the chance to watch a homosexual be executed in public.
OkSo should Kucinich drop out?
Brownback has a MUCH better chance that Kucinich!
Should McCain drop out?
Brownback has a MUCH better chance than McCain!
And those of you who complain against Presidential Matching Funds are ridiculous. Either you support that program or you don’t.
You can’t support it only for the candidates you like!
And NO, you are wrong, you do not get to decide who gets to run.
NONE of you do.
The Constitution decides who can run.
You can only help decide who WINS!
This is how he is investing his time when he should be representing US in the Senate?????
Shouldnt that analogy apply to all of the candidates running, both Rep and Dem? If so, then a number of Dem fit that bill as do a number of other Rep candidates.
Econ would that it were so. As long as you are in Kansas, your vote does not matter. The Electoral College nullifies your vote because only 12 – 15 states votes count, the most populous states. The other 35 – 38 get the shaft.
Thats why you mostly likely wont see any of the candidates for either party visiting any part of Kansas. Okay, maybe Brownback will, but hes our Senator.
Rox – ironically this ‘liberal’ is probably the ‘head’ of a ‘traditional family’ – married to the same wonderful woman for over 36 years. And we do not feel in any way threatened by our ‘non-tradional’ friends.
Econ – to your questions I would say yes, Kucinich should drop out. As for McCain he has infinitely more chance than Brownback (slim is greater than none) but shold probably fold as well. McCain is a has-been; Brownback is a never-was.
Why doesn’t he just take the hint and give up.