Moderate Republicans asking why Brownback is courting Social Conservatives

[ck4829]

When Sam Brownback first ran for Congress, Dixie Roberts thought she knew his type — Main Street Kansas Republican with mainstream values.

"I liked Sam. I thought he was a moderate," recalls the Republican activist from Manhattan.

Glenn Walker, a party worker from Hiawatha, had the same impression, that Brownback was heir to the Kansas Republican Party of Alf Landon, Dwight Eisenhower and Nancy Kassebaum, fiscally conservative and moderate on the social issues.

No wonder they were more than a little surprised in 1995, when their congressman turned out to be one of the new Republican revolutionaries, an outspoken firebrand in one of the most conservative Congresses in history.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2007/02/kansas_newspape.html

[GCP]

1. So how come WE heard about him washing the feet of staffers

And anointing people on the forehead with oil during prayer meetings he had with his roomies in Washington?
They're supposed to be in the know


"U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) washed the feet of a retiring aide in 1998, according to a Topeka-based political newsletter. Recent calls to his office were not returned, but Brownback told the New York Times this fall that the action was a "biblical model of what servant leadership is."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/01/AR2006040100617_pf.html

[BushOut06]

2. Sounds like someone has a foot fetish!

The man would love nothing more than to scrap the Constitution and turn the US into a fundamentalist Christian theocracy.

[LeftishBrit]

7. Blimey, that's almost on the level of Ashcroft anointing himself with cooking-oil!

Where do they find all these nuts??

[AlCzervik]

3. Sounds like Bush Sr. and Romney.

[Mark E. Smith]

4. The GOP establishment has reason to worry

The fundies are not going to find much they can love in Rudy Giuliani.

Brownback is the only GOP candidate for president that speaks the
fundamentalist creed. And even if he doesn't win the nomination, he's
helping to create the fissure that will split the Republican Party in two.

[tanyev]

5. The article doesn't say whether Ms. Roberts kept voting for him after she found

out he was not a moderate. Betcha' she did.

[LeftishBrit]

6. I just did a bit of googling, to find out more about the illustrious Brownback

and found out that he fairly clearly didn't campaign as a moderate to begin with.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2519/is_n10_v17/ai_18839572

In fact, it seems that he defeated Bob Dole's chosen successor for the Senate Republican nomination, by running against her from the far-right. (If Bill Clinton's chosen successor for governor of Arkansas had been defeated in the primary by a left-winger, the Republicans would probably still be screaming about 'purges' 15 years later; but I do realize that the rules are different for Republicans!)

Pity the disappointed moderates in this article didn't also do a bit of googling. Might have saved them some trouble.

What I have also found is that Brownback is a certifiable lunatic - he actually stated at one point that he modelled himself on Jesse Helms (AAAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!!!) and is not someone one wants in charge of WMD. Could you PLEASE reassure me that this disgusting man is not going to be the next president. There aren't many people who could be worse than Bush, but I really think he might be.