Guess He Was Just There for the Ribs
Sam Brownback, the electrifying stump speaker from Kansas, oversees McCain’s outreach to Catholics? Who’s in charge of overseeing Brownback? If this is the best McCain can do, the only thing that will save us in November is that Obama’s leftist tax and spend policies and affection for tyrants will scare the electorate into McCain’s waiting embrace!
~~John Cronin~~
http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/12018
Among the ribs and veepstakes crowd at John McCain’s Arizona ranch for his Memorial Day barbecue was Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback.
His name has not surfaced as a possibility for the second spot on the GOP ticket with McCain. But Brownback helps oversee the presumptive nominee’s outreach to Catholics.
Attendees who could be in the vice presidential mix were Republican Govs. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana (Prime Buzz does not see how this pick helps McCain), Charlie Crist of Florida (Need we say more?) and former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts (Social conservatives like him, but McCain? Not so much.)
May 29th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Mitt Romney lost thanks to Brownback painting him as the flip-flopper he is?
Looks like you haven’t gotten over Brownback’s body-slam of Romney.
June 1st, 2008 at 1:10 am
The flip-flopper charge is actually pretty weak once you break it down.
Romney is actually very conservative, born and raised in the Upper Midwest (Michigan) but, like millions of others, he moved away to college and only later did he have to compromise to get elected and govern in the bluest of blue states - Massachusetts.
What would his critics prefer? That he had moved to another state, say Arizona, where he could have campaigned and governed more in line with his core conservative beliefs? Would they have preferred he stayed in Massachusetts, not compromised and not get elected? For several reasons, including the fact he raised his kids there, Mitt has put down roots in Mass, tried to pull it a little to the right with his conservative approach and Massachusetts, and the country, is a little more conservative than otherwise, and much better off for it.
We should celebrate blue-state conservatives, not bash them over the head for their compromises if they later run for national office.
June 6th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Mitt’s blue state flips are precisely the turn-off for me. If he doesn’t believe in the pro-life position, if he doesn’t believe in the anti-gay position enough to stand for it, yet begins to believe it again when convienient…. need I say more?
Maybe just a little more. I believe so strongly in the pro-life and in the anti-gay position, that I would hold them even if it cost me an election.
I don’t want to vote for someone who adopts his positions based on winning or losing elections. Some ideas and positions are too important to shift with an electorate.
Matt Prihoda