I Beg For This To Happen

2:43 am EST November 22nd, 2006 | Politics | 14 Comments

Sam Brownback for president.

He is the chosen one.

Brownback is not part of the GOP leadership, and he doesn’t want
to be. He once told a group of businessmen he wanted to be the next
Jesse Helms — "Senator No," who operated as a one-man demolition
unit against godlessness, independent of his party. Senate Majority
Leader Bill Frist, a man with presidential ambitions of his own,
gave Brownback a plum position on the Judiciary Committee, perhaps
hoping that Brownback would provide a counterbalance to Arlen
Specter, a moderate Republican who threatened to make trouble for
Bush’s appointees. Instead, taking a page from Helms, Brownback
turned the position into a platform for a high-profile war against
gay marriage, porn and abortion. Casting Bush and the Republican
leadership as soft and muddled, he regularly turns sleepy hearings
into platforms for his vision of America, inviting a parade of
angry witnesses to denounce the "homosexual agenda," "bestiality"
and "murder."

He is running for president because murder is always on his
mind: the abortion of what he considers fetal citizens. He speaks
often and admiringly of John Brown, the abolitionist who massacred
five pro-slavery settlers just north of the farm where Brownback
grew up. Brown wanted to free the slaves; Brownback wants to free
fetuses. He loves each and every one of them. "Just . . .
sacred," he says. In January, during the confirmation of
Samuel Alito for a seat on the Supreme Court, Brownback compared
Roe v. Wade to the now disgraced rulings that once upheld
segregation.

One of the difficulties the left has had with George Bush is that for someone with an insane belief structure he’s good at "passing" as a normal human being with a normal religious faith, not an extremist one. With Sam Brownback there is no such fakery.

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14 Responses to “I Beg For This To Happen”

  1. Diamond LeGrande says:
    November 22, 2006 at 7:04 am

    Brownback is probably around to make other candidates seem sane and moderate. The Right has been using this tactic for years.

  2. Dugger says:
    November 22, 2006 at 7:13 am

    Gee, another conservative compassionate progressives hate. Who’da thunk it?

  3. Nimrod Gently says:
    November 22, 2006 at 8:02 am

    Gee, another cut-and-paste post from Dugger’s archive of talking points. Who’da Vin Scully’d it?

  4. michael says:
    November 22, 2006 at 8:33 am

    He may be the most compassionate person on earth (And how do you figure that? He helps old ladies across the street? He pets puppies?), but that doesn’t mean that his dream theocracy is a place I want to live in.

  5. BD says:
    November 22, 2006 at 9:31 am

    Since Brownback also consistently votes against public education improvement bills, I need to ask what he intends to do to help teach all these fetuses that he’s saving once they become, y’know, actual children.

  6. S says:
    November 22, 2006 at 10:49 am

    Dugger | Nov 22, 2006 7:13:55 AM
    “Gee, another conservative compassionate progressives hate. Who’da thunk it?”

    Nimrod Gently | Nov 22, 2006 8:02:59 AM
    “Gee, another cut-and-paste post from Dugger’s archive of talking points. Who’da Vin Scully’d it?”

    pedugger’s still trying to figure out what the hell happened to the Republicans during the mid-terms. I really enjoyed the shocked silence in the days that followed.

  7. Quaker in a Basement says:
    November 22, 2006 at 11:36 am

    Hunh?

    Dugger, sounds to me like you’re just going through the motions waiting for the long weekend to start.

    Go ahead, take the day off. We’ll all be here when you come back.

  8. z adura says:
    November 22, 2006 at 1:50 pm

    I am curious about one thing.

    South Dakota voted 55-45 against abortion restrictions. If not South Dakota, where in America is there a majority that supports ending abortion?

  9. Dugger says:
    November 22, 2006 at 2:10 pm

    These are brilliant posts, Quaker.

    Dugger “The lions in their dens
    tremble at his approach”

  10. WhiteWhale says:
    November 22, 2006 at 3:22 pm

    I guess because he is against abortion he is “compassionate”? What a crock. This man is not even close to finding a middle-ground with this country. As I have previously posted Dugger, I just can’t find a candidate that is looking for any-middle ground. You are being dumb on purpose:) Brownback makes Newt look like Peace-lovin’ Hippie.

  11. buma says:
    November 22, 2006 at 7:43 pm

    OW ‘failed to mention’ that Brownback is an adherent of opus dei, the radical religious cult made famous in The daVinci Code.

  12. S says:
    November 22, 2006 at 9:40 pm

    Dugger | Nov 22, 2006 2:10:40 PM
    “These are brilliant posts, Quaker.

    Dugger “The lions in their dens
    tremble at his approach”"

    We look forward to your drunken, nonsensical, post-Thanksgiving spews, pedugger.

  13. Adam Herman says:
    November 24, 2006 at 9:12 am

    Unelectable. The Republicans only have four realistic choices, assuming they actually want to win:

    John McCain
    Rudy Giuliani
    Mitt Romney
    Tommy Thompson

  14. drydock says:
    November 24, 2006 at 11:10 pm

    Brownback serves the exact same purpose as guys like Howard Dean do for the democrats. Rally up part of the base (that might be lethargic) and bring them into the fight, then lose the party’s nomination, then pledge your total allegiance to whatever politician has been chosen behind the scenes by the party appartus.

    Brownback or Dean will never ever ever be nominated for president.