Posted on 06/28/2007 2:49:32 PM PDT by Plutarch
Brownback does deserve a black eye for his immigration stance, but let’s be careful who we want out of office.
There’s only 4 Senators with a higher ACU rating that have served as long as Brownback.
And no one is batting 1.000.
Matter of fact, the highest ACU rating is only 4% above Brownback!
Yes, he’s wrong on immigration. But he’s a lot closer to what we need in a Senator than the overwhelming majority of Senators and candidates out there.
Folks turning their back on guys like Brownback for a failure to be perfect is how Kansas got stuck with a Dem. Governor.
Brownbackstabber.
=sigh= I saw it with my own eyes.
“I voted for it before I voted against it”. Where have we heard that before?
We are. Brownback didn't vote our way when he thought it would count. When it no longer counted, the poltroon furtively changed his vote. Now, he's scrubbed his website of his perfidy. His candidate website didn't even include immigration as an issue until recently, so that he needn't excuse his Yea vote on the 2006 bill. He is playing an inside game of getting campaign cash from the OBL, while pretending he is on our side as much as possible.
On the illegal issue, as with the French, I'd rather have a Division of Grahams in front of me than a Brownback behind me.
I understand what you are saying and it is laudable that he has such a conservative rating. But.the truth of the matter is he refused to LISTEN to his constituents until it became very apparent that he was on the losing side. Then he changed his vote.
Representatives who refuse to listen to the people who sent them to the party are dangerous. You may think you know them but at the most important moment they may desert. And this is what he did. Sad, but it was his decision and he’s the one who has to live with it.
I do believe it has killed whatever remote chance he had at the presidency and it will be a long time before everyone forgets his Kerry like vote. His stance after this debacle will determine his true beliefs. I’m sure his constituents will be watching closely.
Okay, but I would hold off if the big picture matters at all. I am a Kansas voter. It isn’t a cake walk even here to send a solid conservative to the Senate. Brownback is overall great. I just want people to remember that.
He never had a chance at the Presidency and he knows it.
His track record is also long enough that I’m really not afraid of him abandoning me, he’s quite proven. Even his weakness on immigration is well known to those in Kansas.
In the end, he’s among the most Conservative members in Congress, and voted correctly on this issue. He sure isn’t perfect, but he’s far better than the median.
Thanks for this link. We really have to START the pressure now, not rejoice in the current victory. 1: Secure the borders. 2: Prosecute employers of illegals and any government agency who assists them with freebies or in any other way.
Then, when they’re finally stopped, and fleeing this “inhospitible environment”, I’ll be happy to talk about other measures for “guest workers”, etc.
Little Bill Daggett: You just shot an unarmed man!
Will Munny: Well, he should have armed himself if he's going to decorate his saloon with my friend.
GOFP: You just ridiculed a No voting man!
Plutarch: Well, he should have voted no before he voted to decorate our country with his illegals.
I have a low opinion of most politicians anyway, but I absolutely despise politicians who have no principles and instead stick their fingers in the air and go with the prevailing political breezes.
Senator Sam "Switchback" Brownback has amply earned his new monicker. He has proven himself to be a deceitful panderer, and I hope Kansas gets around to replacing him with someone (of whatever party) who has at least a passing acquaintance with ethical concepts.
In the meantime we'll have fun mocking him as the new John Kerry.
The one in this photo is cute.
Weasels are flexible, adaptable critters that honestly earn their living.
In this regard, they bear no resemblance to Senator Switchback,
er, Senator La Raza, er...Senator Brownback.
(snicker)
And furthermore, Brownback will never be President of the USA.
He won’t even get a promotion to sporkweasel.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1674019/posts
Brownstain not only tried to have it both ways, and then cover his tracks, he did so ineptly, thus insulting our intelligence after trying to screw us.
A pox upon the Brownstain, and upon his ambitions to higher office.
Enough of these half-wits masquerading as conservatives.
We deserve better.
Brownback cooked his goose on this issue. A few days ago after the first cloture vote, he sent me an email asking for support for his presidential campaign.
I then sent him an email saying that considering his vote on cloture, I would not vote for him if he was running for my local dog catcher.
Don’t know much about Brownback but now I know all I need to know if he ever runs in a national contest.
Sounds far, far too similar to John Kerry's, "I voted for it just before I voted against it." I cannot ever again consider the man credible, and I volunteered for him full time in his office in his original campaign against a RINO, place holder for another RINO, in KS.
We "conservatives" won, or we at least thought so at the time, I have since changed my mind entirely. I would never trust the man to tell me the sun was shining unless I could first check outside.
Is he pro-life, yes, does he not agree to embryonic stem cell research, yes, does he oppose gay marriage, yes.....but then so does George W. Bush and he has attempted every way possible to legalize 12/20 million law breakers and worse of all, insulted most conservative Americans for not wanting to give MEXICO preferential treatment to American Citizens.
I personally know Sam and have for many years. When he left KS for D.C., he was a true conservative, since that time, he has "grown in office" most especially since joining up with the Catholic Bishops and their views on giving illegal Mexican & Central, South American aliens free reign on the U. S. Constitution, and that can NEVER be accepted and referred to as "conservative."
Sam, if he had his way would make America look far more like Mexico City than our founders planned.
At least a weasel has a spine. This guy is a worm.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“I wanted to signal that I am supportive of comprehensive immigration reform” . . . “Comprehensive” is code for amnesty.
That’s two strikes against him: he would give illegal aliens a path to citizenship, and he doesn’t have the courage of his convictions.
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