Sen. Brownback out
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Sam Brownback, the Kansas conservative who struggled to raise money and gain recognition in the 2008 presidential campaign, will drop out on Friday, people close to him said Thursday.
Money was a main reason for his decision, said one person close to Brownback who requested anonymity because the candidate had not yet announced his plans. Brownback is expected announce his withdrawal in Topeka, Kan.
It's widely anticipated Brownback will run for Kansas governor in 2010, when his term — his second — expires. He had promised in his first Senate campaign to serve no more than two terms.
Well this is certainly no surprise. He has run a campaign that makes Katherine Harris's Senate campaign in Florida look inspired. I will though be sad to see him leave the Senate after his current term since he has been for the most part an excellent senator, and probably the most pro-life senator there currently is and also one who is the best on social issues.
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I like Brownback too, and for all the reasons you cite, but this is good news. We pro-lifers need to unite behind a single candidate to have any chance of a pro-life nominee.
Maybe he'll be more well known as a governor and can use that to run for president later :)
I agree with Paul.
The least number of pro-life candidates we have in this race, the better. They're dividing the conservative vote amongst themselves.
The conservatives all need to step down and endorse Alan Keyes for President!
I likewise agree. The only reason a reprobate like Guilliani gets so much attention is because he has consolidated the "fiscal conservatives who could give a flip about life" Republicans.
People try to say Guilliani is the perfect candidate to beat Hillary but if anything, she is uniquely situated to beat Guilliani:
1) They are both from New York.
Advantage: Hillary. Conservatives hate NY and Liberals treat it like their Vatican.
2) Guilliani embarrasses and offends Catholics. Hillary frightens people who have ever contemplated God.
Advantage: Hillary wins with lack of Catholic voter motivation
3) Guilliani's morality is (probably somewhat kinda maybe) pro-life (with caveats) but also vocally and staunchly pro-mistress. Hillary stuck with her cheating husband despite being embarrassed in front of the whole country by him.
Advantage: Hillary. Don't think for a second she won't use this to appeal to mom and pa Fly-over Country.
4) Guilliani is pro-war against terror. Hillary is the political collateral to wage violet and wide-ranging war with absolute impunity.
Advantage: Hillary. Conservatives know this about her and Liberals are too gullible.
People like to say that Rudy can take on Hillary but the fact is if Rudy gets the nomination, Hillary will win. No amount of abstract promises about probable SCOTUS nominations will assuage voters.
If Right to Life and Focus on Family have any awareness of this at all, they will get together, decide on a good pro-life candidate, and convince all the other candidates to drop out. If they really are concerned pro-life candidates (like Brownback), then they will drop out.
Paul is right. I've been saying this all along. We need one solid pro-life candidate, and he must also be right on illegal immigration or he'll lose. The only two that fit are Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter. I hope that the two of them will come together and choose one or the other to run.
The conservatives all need to step down and endorse Alan Keyes for President!
Help Hillary make 1964 look like a bad year for Democrats: Vote for Alan Keyes!
I'm sorry to see Sam Brownback out. Woulda had my vote.
Now, to those mentioned here...Keyes, Tancredo, Hunter... Brownback's candidacy was quixotic, but wow. If the wager were between the snowman's chance in hell and Keyes, Tancredo & Hunter collectively having 200 delegates the safer money is on the snowman.
The best we can hope for is Fred Thompson (may God have mercy on us). He's more like Reagan than he is like W, but at least he's actually laying in the big leagues.
I hope he does run for governor as KS is my home state and after our current Democratic govenor, he has much cleaning up to do.
Sorry, guys, but Alan Keyes has long since passed his sell-by date.
You know, I get sick and tired of "pro-life" Christians whining about 1)nobody to support (Dobson, Bauer) 2)too many people to support (most of the participants on this thread) 3)the Republican Party being the Party of Moloch (Mark Shea, et al).
What I would love to see is somebody come right out and support somebody. Duncan Hunter is the best of the lot. He has the most experience in government and he's perhaps the only candidate in the G.O.P. who serious about both abortion and the war against jihadism.
But nobody will support him. Why? Because they'd rather complain than act positively (Shea) or because they value their tax-exempt statuses (Dobson) over "family values."
If you don't support Hunter, and do it soon and passionately, you will get what you deserve.
Then again, maybe all you want to do is whine, bitch, piss and moan. That's OK; just don't call yourselves responsible Americans or faithful Catholics while you're at it.