No he's not. I saw him on the News Hour the other night, right after Miers withdrew, and his performance was pathetic. He and Dick Durbin were both guests, and Durbin kept going on about how Bush is facing pressure from the "extreme right" to nominate someone "they" want, and who's "outside the mainstream of what Americans want" - you know, the typical Democrat spew. And Brownback didn't lift a finger to correct the misconception Durbin was deliberately pushing.
I don't get this business of why Republicans are expected to be so damned dainty when dealing with Democrats, even when there's a smarmy Democrat sitting right next to him who's dragging conservatives' names through the mud like that. If he can't be bothered to stand up for us in the face of that kind of slander, he's useless.
What was worse is that Durbin was so smug and self-satisfied in that segment, while Brownback was very guarded in his choice of words and appeared on the defensive. I wanted to puke. These idiot Republicans don't even know when they have the upper hand.
No he's not. I saw him on the News Hour the other night, right after Miers withdrew, and his performance was pathetic. He and Dick Durbin were both guests, and Durbin kept going on about how Bush is facing pressure from the "extreme right" to nominate someone "they" want, and who's "outside the mainstream of what Americans want" - you know, the typical Democrat spew. And Brownback didn't lift a finger to correct the misconception Durbin was deliberately pushing.
Well then while Browback is a real conservative he's too damn wimpy (trying to go compassionate conservative) to ever be elevated to higher office. I'll cross him off my 2008 list. With that said he's the most conservative senator Kansas has sent us in a while, before him there was Bob Dole and Nancy Kasselbaum (sp?)