You may be able to watch Senator Brownback disembowel his 2008 Presidential Campaign live on national TV today. IF, as rumored, he comes on and announces he will support the Democrats gutless Iraq Resolution Brownback is finished. You might just get to watch one of the greatest political miscalculations in US History live on your TV's today.
For Brownback to take this position the same week more the 27,000 of the most activist Conservatives in the Country sign this pledge indicates a political tone deafness that makes one wonder just how Brownback even managed to get elected to the US Senate in the 1st place.
http://truthlaidbear.com/thenrscpledge/index.php
27,112 people have signed The Pledge thus far. Will you?
If the United States Senate passes a resolution, non-binding or otherwise, that criticizes the commitment of additional troops to Iraq that General Petraeus has asked for and that the president has pledged, and if the Senate does so after the testimony of General Petraeus on January 23 that such a resolution will be an encouragement to the enemy, I will not contribute to any Republican senator who voted for the resolution. Further, if any Republican senator who votes for such a resolution is a candidate for re-election in 2008, I will not contribute to the National Republican Senatorial Committee unless the Chairman of that Committee, Senator Ensign, commits in writing that none of the funds of the NRSC will go to support the re-election of any senator supporting the non-binding resolution.
My name is on there.
One of those 27,112 signers of the Pledge is mine, I'm proud to say. And I DO keep my word.
Agreed, and already signed up.
Okay, then. One less candidate, IMO
FYI, if you guys didn't get to see any video of the National Review summit this weekend, this guy's Romney site has some.
(Scroll down, click on first nri link at bottom of first NRI video you come to:
http://www.mymanmitt.com/
(No preference, just where I found some video... only saw two clips from the beginning re: NR stream)
Just saw Brownback on FNS. He lost what little support I ever considered giving him. Brownback is willing to lose in Iraq if he can save face and be seen as working with the Democrats. His lack of conservative principles is appalling and shows he's more of a RINO than a conservative.
Brownback is simply counting on any viable Pres. candidate to be what I refer to as a SPORK (a combination spoon/fork that they throw in your take-our order bag). These are politicians, like Hillary, who want to play it both ways. Note that those Senators who voted against the Gulf War were not hurt by their vote. Being a SPORK is safe.
Brownback also came out against the Bush Administration's wire-tapping of calls to terrorists abroad, without permission from the FISA court.
See http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/6264.html
"U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., on Friday said the Bush administration needed to answer questions about spying on Americans without court authorization. And Brownback said he disagreed with the administration’s legal rationale, which he said could hamper future presidents during war.
" 'There are questions that should be examined at this point in time,' Brownback said during a news conference. […]
" 'I do not agree with the legal basis on which they are basing their surveillance — that when the Congress gave the authorization to go to war that that gives sufficient legal basis for the surveillance,' he said.
"He said if the justification holds up, 'you’re going to have real trouble having future Congresses giving approval to presidents to go to war.'"