[The Old Hoosier]

I don't think Tancredo is generally more conservative than Brownback -- he's probably a lot like Allen on most issues -- but he is better on immigration.

That doesn't mean I'm going to vote for the nut. I care too much about abortion, guns, and taxes to throw my vote away on this guy and elect anti-gun, shaky-on-abortion, bad-on-taxes McCain.

Those are my three criteria for any candidate, and that's why I backed Toomey and Schaeffer and a whole bunch of long-shot conservatives in primaries in the past.

[inquest]

Brownback's a non-starter. I saw him on the NewsHour shortly after Alito's nomination, and he was pitiful. He was a guest along with Dick Durbin, and Durbin was in non-stop slander mode, saying that Bush caved to the "far right" nominating someone so far "outside the mainstream" - the typical Democrat pap on judges. And Brownback never directly challenged any of it. He just let Durbin make monkeys out of conservatives without standing up for them at all. I completely wrote him off after that. Whatever "correct" positions he may have taken, he's useless if he doesn't actually lift a finger to stand up for them.

As for Allen, if he's so much like Tancredo, then why do you think he has a better shot at the nomination than Tancredo does?

[Gipper08]

NO! Tancredo is all around WAAAAAAYYYYYY more conservative then Brownback and Allen.Tancredo is the real deal.That being said,he can not win.Mike Pence can,that is why we must get behind him early.

[arnoldpalmerfan]

Sen. Brownback is an original co-sponsor of the McCain-Kennedy immigration legislation that will give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.