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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Hoping to make headway with pro-life voters, a spokesman for Sam Brownback is speaking up against Rudy Giuliani's pro-abortion position and making it clear that he thinks a Giuliani candidacy would hurt the Republican Party and the efforts pro-life groups have made to stop abortion. David Barron, the South Carolina chairman for Brownback for President, made the comments in an email sent out to Brownback supporters. "Like you, I am proud that the Republican Party has long stood for protecting innocent human life in our party's platform," Barron says. "Unfortunately one of the current front-runners for...

Two shadows loomed over last night's Republican debate in South Carolina — the missing ex-Sen. Fred Thompson and former Speaker Newt Gingrich. Both Thompson and Gingrich are reviewing their astrological charts to determine if the time is right for their presidential candidacies. These rites of introspection make it much harder for the conservative wing of the Republican Party to settle on a candidate. Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani's pro-choice position and his backing for gun control and gay civil unions disqualify him from support by much of the Christian right. Sen. John McCain, good on social issues by righty lights, has...

Three top Republican presidential contenders took fire from their second-tier rivals and traded digs on Tuesday, with Rudolph Giuliani defending his abortion rights support and John McCain and Mitt Romney trying to burnish their conservative credentials. In the second debate in two weeks between the 10 men vying for the 2008 Republican nomination, Giuliani, McCain and Romney -- "Rudy McRomney" to their detractors -- tried to ease doubts among conservatives about their records. The 90-minute session in conservative South Carolina featured a sharp exchange between front-runner Giuliani and longshot Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, who said America's Middle East policies...

Republican Presidential Candidate Debate #2 – Columbia, South Carolina 05/15/07 - Official Discussion Thread Watch live coverage of the First-in-the-South Republican Party Presidential Candidate debate on FOX News Channel and FOXNews.com on Tuesday, May 15, at 9 p.m. EDT (6 p.m. PDT). Sam Brownback Jim Gilmore Rudy Giuliani Mike Huckabee Duncan Hunter John McCain Mitt Romney Ron Paul Tom Tancredo Tommy Thompson The 90-minute debate will air from 9 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. ET (6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.) and will be moderated by "Special Report" anchor Brit Hume. Questions will be posed by two panelists — "FOX News Sunday"...

Ten Republican presidential candidates will gather in South Carolina tonight for their second debate of the month, with much of the focus likely to be on former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and his continuing effort to extricate himself from a controversy over his position on abortion. Giuliani, the putative front-runner for the GOP nomination, has struggled for the past two weeks after declaring at the first GOP debate in California that it would be "okay" if the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide, but then added that it would also be...

Republican presidential candidate Sam Brownback grilled a judge who attended a same-sex union ceremony in 2002, but said he would no longer block her nomination. Brownback, a Kansas senator who opposes gay marriage, last year held up the nomination of Janet T. Neff to be a federal District Court judge in Michigan. The Senate Judiciary Committee had cleared Neff for the post, but Brownback had questions about her role in the same-sex ceremony, which surfaced because of a wedding announcement in The New York Times. The senator said in December he would stop blocking her nomination if he could question...

John McCain bounced back in the first Republican presidential debate and breathed new life into his faltering candidacy. His answers were strong: he faced the camera squarely, and scored big with his circa-2000 attacks on pork spending and special interests. He was both passionate and articulate. His sole bad moment came with his fumbling answer about why he opposed the Bush tax cuts. But for a candidate who seemed to have lost his way, McCain did very, very well. That said, there was a major bias in the debate. MSNBC and Politico deliberately marginalized Giuliani and steered far too many...

Republican Presidential Candidate Debate #1 – Reagan Library 05/03/07 - Official Discussion Thread Sam Brownback Jim Gilmore Rudy Giuliani Mike Huckabee Duncan Hunter John McCain Mitt Romney Ron Paul Tom Tancredo Tommy Thompson The debate will take place at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, and will air live on MSNBC from 8:00 to 9:30 pm (ET) and stream live on MSNBC.com and politico.com and will include audience questions gathered on politico.com.

The big problem in finding a conservative challenger to run for the GOP nomination is not the absence of a genuine constituency, nor is it even enthusiasm for ex-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Right-wingers who would pass the litmus test — guys like former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback, Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo, California Rep. Duncan Hunter, former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, or even ex-Tennessee Sen. and famous actor Fred Thompson — face the need to climb over the political corpses of former Speaker New Gingrich (Ga.) and ex-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to...

Just as baseball fans tend to be hooked on statistics -- and the more arcane the better -- political aficionados often look to historical precedents and analogous situations for clues of future events, whether truly applicable or not. All in all, it's not a bad thing, as long as one does not become a prisoner of history. But this presidential campaign might be so different that many past patterns will not apply or might be terribly misleading. Over the last 90 years, only two sitting U.S. senators have won the presidency -- Warren G. Harding in 1920 and John F....

A U.S. Senate Republican with presidential ambitions has renewed his push to slap new regulations on the video and computer game industry, including a ban on "deceptive" labels by ratings outfits. Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) on Tuesday reintroduced the Truth in Video Game Rating Act, first proposed last September. It calls for requiring video game rating organizations to play all games "in their entirety" before issuing labels and prohibiting game developers from withholding any "hidden" game content from raters. It would also punish ratings groups that "grossly mischaracterize" any game's content. "The current video game ratings system is not as...

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Kansans for Life Prayer Breakfast 2007 Speakers Audio Files (GOPWING.PODOMATIC.COM): Kansans for Life Host Nation Right to Life ConventionRev. Eric M Weldon - Kansans For Life Prayer Breakfast 2007U.S. Rep Jerry Moran (KS) - Kansans For Life Prayer BreakfastU.S. Rep Todd Tiahrt (KS) - Kansans For Life Prayer Breakfast 2007U.S. Senator Sam Brownback (KS) - Kansans For Life Prayer Breakfast 2007U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (KS) - Kansans For Life Prayer Breakfast 2007A Few Great MP3 Files (GOPWING.PODOMATIC.COM): Ronald Reagan's 1964 SpeechAmerican Covenant Seminar 2.5History American Education 1 by Dr. Samuel L. BlumenfeldThe Awakening of 1792 Onward - History of Revival...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Two of the Republican presidential candidates with strong pro-life views spoke to tens of thousands of people at a rally preceding the annual March for Life. Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback and California Rep. Duncan Hunter both said they favor overturning Roe v. Wade and allowing states to prohibit abortions. "We recognize a tragedy of life in Roe v. Wade, but that tragedy will not always stand," Brownback told the cheering crowd. During his speech, the pro-life senator, who formally declared his candidacy for the 2008 Republican nomination on Saturday, spoke about adopting his daughter Jenna from...

Sen. Sam Brownback, a Kansas Republican and favorite son of the religious right, will officially enter the presidential race later this month in his home state. "He will be fully announcing on January 20 in Topeka, Kansas," Brian Hart, the senator's spokesman, said Friday. The move was expected even though Brownback set up an exploratory committee in December to gauge whether he had enough support for a full-blown campaign. After the announcement in Kansas, Hart said Brownback will fly to Washington to participate in the anti-abortion march marking the anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling. Brownback is a lesser-known candidate...

Brownback to Move on Presidential Bid By LIZ SIDOTI (Associated Press Writer) From Associated Press January 05, 2007 5:57 PM EST WASHINGTON - Sen. Sam Brownback, a Kansas Republican and favorite son of the religious right, will officially enter the presidential race later this month in his home state. "He will be fully announcing on January 20 in Topeka, Kansas," Brian Hart, the senator's spokesman, said Friday. The move was expected even though Brownback set up an exploratory committee in December to gauge whether he had enough support for a full-blown campaign. After the announcement in Kansas, Hart said Brownback...

(AP) WASHINGTON -- Sen. Sam Brownback, a Kansas Republican and favorite son of the religious right, will officially enter the presidential race later this month in his home state. "He will be fully announcing on January 20 in Topeka, Kansas," Brian Hart, the senator's spokesman, said Friday. The move was expected even though Brownback set up an exploratory committee in December to gauge whether he had enough support for a full-blown campaign. After the announcement in Kansas, Hart said Brownback will fly to Washington to participate in the anti-abortion march marking the anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling. Brownback...

Sam Brownback lives closer to Iowa than any of the other Republicans likely to run for president in 2008. Brownback, the senior senator from Kansas, resides in Topeka, which is but a few hours by car from Iowa. And he plans to travel there quite a lot over the next 12 months--through January 21, 2008, the day Iowa Republicans plan to declare their presidential preferences.Three weeks ago Brownback set up a presidential exploratory committee. That allows him to raise money and gauge support for a presidential race without actually announcing his candidacy. Brownback may decide not to run. But it...

Take a good look at the photo above, guys. Okay, when you are finally done drooling uncontrollably, try to guess which one was Miss America 2001, Angela Perez Baraquio from Hawaii. It's impossible to pick out who was Miss America because all seven of the Baraquio sisters are STUNNING. Yes, you read that right. I wrote "sisters." Amazingly, those Baraquio sisters are all so hot looking that ANY one of them could have been crowned as Miss America. For this reason I am not going to pick out which of those stunnees was the actual Miss America. Does it...

WEST DES MOINES, IOWA — Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback, among the most conservative of the potential Republican presidential candidates, said Tuesday there’s room in the GOP for candidates who favor gay rights, but he warned that such politicians wouldn’t be welcomed by the party’s conservative base. “It’s a big-tent party and has been for a long period of time, particularly since Ronald Reagan talked about this being a party of different viewpoints,” said Brownback. “If somebody agrees with you 80 percent of the time, he’s not your enemy.” Brownback, in the midst of another visit to Iowa, was asked about...