Brownback is the textbook example of what happens when the GOP decides that conservative means "pro-life, Socialist, free-spending, open-borders cut and runner" or, IOW...that as long as someone is pro-life - they're automatically an invulnerable, forever electable conservative. However, they've thrown common sense and fiscal and economic conservatism out the window.
Well, I'm throwing Brownback's fundraising letters in the trash. I've gotten three so far. I'm not quite mean enough to send them back to him postpaid. I reserve that for Democrats and the ACLU. But I'm certainly not supporting him.
Part of the trouble is that some of the other conservatives in the race have been downplaying pro-life support, and that's important to us too. And that's why Brownback is still in the news, because it gives him an opening others aren't exploiting. Newt, for instance, was never very pro-life and currently isn't even mentioning it. I was disillusioned with him toward the end of his last term in congress, frankly, and I won't support him again. It's not easy to find someone you can really trust.