Brownback to Drop Out

Okay, I'll repeat my previous question. Will this help the Huckster in the polls? [the $ shift would be insignificant]

Speaking of the Huck, do you have any figures about the $$$ he has raised in AR? The results of his last fundie on his 'home turf' that I saw was pretty abysmal.

Any insider stuff on Hastert?

I guess Brownback has better things to do--behind a barn with a dull axe.

To me, the question is why Brownback never got any traction. Here is a genuinely conservative with a decade of experience in the Senate, and he couldn't compete against a someone whose primary qualification is not being George Bush on 9-11, a one term governor of the most notoriously liberal state in the country, etc.

The answer, of course, is that the media controls the agenda, and the media decided to regard Brownback as a third tier candidate despite his qualifications. Meanwhile, a total schlub like Thompson gets massive amounts of media, and the media spent far more time on speculation about a Gingrich run than on coverage of Brownback's campaign.

Brownback's real problem was that he announced too early. If he'd held out, the media would have done what it does best --- constant speculation about a POTENTIAL Brownback candidacy, and wall to wall coverage of Brownback if/when he announced -- and Brownback would probably be leading in the polls right now...

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special to linda -- I'm also curious about Hastert's resignation. my guess is that its Larry Craig playing hardball.... rumors about Hastert's sexuality have been around the beltway for ages, and I suspect that Craig has something on Hastert that he planned on using if the GOP didn't get off of his case...

Clinton has out-raised Huckabee in Arkansas, but he is number two.

OK, so now how many of the remaining Republican candidates believe the world was created 6000 years ago?

Brownback didn't get any traction because he didn't toe the line on immigration. For whatever reason, the right wing base of the Republican party seems to be especially into pandering on the issues this cycle; the cult of personality that generally blinds them to their candidate's flaws has not yet formed.

Brownback faild precisely because he was genuine.

To me, the question is why Brownback never got any traction. Here is a genuinely conservative with a decade of experience in the Senate, and he couldn't compete against a someone whose primary qualification is not being George Bush on 9-11, a one term governor of the most notoriously liberal state in the country, etc.

The answer, of course, is that the media controls the agenda, and the media decided to regard Brownback as a third tier candidate despite his qualifications. Meanwhile, a total schlub like Thompson gets massive amounts of media, and the media spent far more time on speculation about a Gingrich run than on coverage of Brownback's campaign.

Brownback's real problem was that he announced too early. If he'd held out, the media would have done what it does best --- constant speculation about a POTENTIAL Brownback candidacy, and wall to wall coverage of Brownback if/when he announced -- and Brownback would probably be leading in the polls right now...

guess Brownback has better things to do--behind a barn with a dull axe.

linda,

You like the Black eye Peas? They are my favorite, Never trust any one without beautiful hair, like me. Hillary yes Mit Romney yes, Obama Yes, Kuchinich....nope

What do you think.

"His backing could be a huge get, given the respect and influence he has among the GOP's very unsettled evangelical base."

Brownback's endorsement will get some lucky candidate ... about $800,000 a quarter and a 1% bump in poll numbers. Brownback was never able to peel away Huckabee's Evangelical support - support that Huckabee is likely to keep no matter who Brownback endorses.

Folks, we are winning. I don't care what anybody says, we are winning. In fact, I've got two stories to illustrate how we are winning. Here's the first: "Chances for a U.S. resolution calling the mass killings of Armenians that began in 1915 genocide eroded dramatically last night, as sponsors dropped off in droves and senior Democrats urged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to abandon her support," and they're not going to have the votes to override the president's S-CHIP veto either. Pelosi is just so bent out of shape; she's just had it. She's blaming the Senate for this -- not the Armenian thing -- but she's blaming the Senate for not having the guts to do anything; everything over there is languishing. She's got all these great contributions that she's made as speaker of the House Democrats, all these great accomplishments and achievements, but the Senate is slowing 'em down. So she's throwing the mud over there across the chamber at Dingy Harry. Everybody's just climbing on Dingy Harry, and they're climbing on her, too, but she's trying to deflect it all.

"The number of lawmakers supporting the bill slipped below a majority as four more withdrew from the legislation." This is the thing that nobody will convince me otherwise, that the Democrats, the leadership of the House, did this as a way of interrupting supplying routes to the troops in Iraq. This is the thing that Turkey has said, "You guys pass this resolution, you're messing with a friendly ally here. You're using our country to get supplies and materials to the troops, we're going to attack the Kurds in northern Iraq, screw you, this is how you treat your allies," and the president said, "Don't do this." They said, "We found some alternative supply lines and routes," but it's silly to do this. Nobody will convince me that this was not a stealth way, a cowardly way of affecting negatively the success happening in Iraq vis-à-vis the surge because everybody is now acknowledging it. The death tolls are down; Al-Qaeda is on the run. The Democrats politically cannot afford a victory; they cannot afford the perception of it, they are so invested in defeat. They cannot share in a victory and they know they can't because they've never been on the side of winning.

So if we do win, or if there's really positive news, there's no way Democrats with credibility can say, "We helped; we supported it." They can't show up at any of the ceremonies welcoming the troops home because they've tried to undermine 'em. So this was a stealth way and it's falling apart, and it's falling apart because we had the guts and the courage to tell the American people what this was all about. There's a reason why a bunch of Democrats are dropping off this thing like flies, and that is that there are some adults somewhere in that party who know it's suicide to be associated with turning around victory in the middle of it, or altering the success that it's taking and turning it negative, there's a price for that that they don't want to pay. So what Pelosi has been advised to do, senior Democrats urging Pelosi, by the way, who has a large population of ethnic Armenians in her district, just to declare victory with the committee vote and move away from the issue. This first was passed in a committee, then it goes to the full House, and that's where it's been bottled up. Look, just go out there and declare victory. You got your committee vote, declare victory, and move on. This is not a victory. This is another public humiliation. This is another defeat for Pelosi, who made a big deal about trying to lead her House Democrats to get this done, and she can't get it done.

Backbrown was running for President? Of what?