The inscrutable Senatorial hair of Sam Brownback (image via senaTE)
'Tis the season for Presidential exploratory committees. The name Brownback mayt suggest to some an unspeakable coital act involving feces (Exaggerated cough suggesting feigned detachment). Quite the contrary (Averted Gaze). get used to the name, for he may be either the republican nominiee for President in 2008, or -- at the very least -- the Veep pick on the ticket.
Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, who considers anti-slavery reformer Wilberforce as his politicxal idol, is seeking to capture the wide open political expanse to the right of Republican frontrunner John McCain. With the exodus of the impossibly stupid Rick Santorum, the ineffective Bill Frist and George Allen of Virginia -- and "Macaca" -- fame, the right of center in the 2008 Presidential contest is wide open for conquest. It will be intersting to see if Karl Rove picks a pony in this horserace as George Bush is all but certain to put his weight behind McCain's prestige to complete his legacy, namely, the sanguinary Iraq War.
McCain, of course, loathes Karl Rove (Bad blood from South Carolina' 2000); if Rove wants to continue fixing at the Presidential level, he may want to lay back in the tall grass of the grassroots and work with a Conservative in the Primaries -- or maybe latch onto a 2011's Republican sleeper Jebby Bush (Bush-Schwarzenegger 2011). According to TheHill:
"Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) yesterday established a presidential exploratory committee, seeking to fill what conservatives say is an absence of strong conservative leadership among top-tier Republican White House candidates.
"Brownback immediately sought to position himself as the leading social conservative of the 2008 field.
"'I have decided, after much prayerful consideration, to consider a bid for the Republican nomination for the presidency,' Brownback said in a statement. 'There is a real need in our country to rebuild the family and renew our culture and there is a need for genuine conservatism and real compassion in the national discussion.'"
Let the games begin.
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