Check out this fabulous article about Sam Brownback in the Washington Post. It does an excellent job of describing who Sen. Brownback really is as a person. We could use more people like this in politics. The entire article is more than worth your time, but here is a little bit:
During the 2004 Republican convention, Brownback told a closed-door rally, “We must win this culture war,” according to the New York Times. “I say we fight.”
“He has this kind of soft physical presence,” says Burdett Loomis, a political scientist at the University of Kansas. “I think Sam Brownback is a very tough customer.”…
Across the country, not many people know who Sam Brownback is. His fundraising has been lackluster, though it’s still early. Even if he doesn’t get close to winning, though, his support in the conservative Christian community may affect what other candidates are talking about.
“One of his major contributions would be to anchor the moral issues in the Republican Party,” says Rob Schenck, an evangelical minister and president of the conservative National Clergy Council. “He in a way could hold the evangelical and the traditional Catholic vote hostage if the party began to waver on those issues.”
Brownback says his model for the presidential race would be the way he ran for Senate in 1996, after discovering the melanoma.
“If I win, I win. If I lose, I lose,” he says. “It’s a great liberation. . . . And then you run on the topics that you really feel called to do. And the beauty of it is, is that people really like that. They may not agree with you on things but they really do like that. The purpose-driven life.”
Vote for Brownback on the American Family Association’s Presidential Straw Poll. I realize that nobody in the media is giving him a chance and he’s not even really talked about in conservative circles, but I’m still pulling for him. He seems to me to be the most obvious alternative to Rudy Giuliani (which most conservatives are looking for) and I don’t know why more people don’t see that – right now he is only 6th on the AFA poll.
Hat Tips to: Alive and Young; The Steubenville Conservative
