Slapback Brownback
Still a Putz
GOP Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas is slowly but surely shaping up to be my least favorite candidate for the White House. I am starting to love to hate him.
He apologized this week to Mitt Romney and two top leaders of the Mormon Church after one of his staffers used her personal e-mail to circulate anti-Mormon materials. This of course was a mistake and not intended in any way. (Right! And Rove never meant to leak that Plame information, too.) The staffer was not fired, but she was severely reprimanded (with a wink and nod, no doubt).
The list forwarded by Brownback’s southeast Iowa field director to a dozen activists asked about the validity of several items, including “the only thing Christianity and the LDS Church has in common is the name of Jesus Christ, and the LDS Jesus is not the same Jesus of the Christian faith.”
The staffer’s e-mail was naturally seen as an affront to fellow Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney, whose Mormon religion is his biggest obstacle for the 2008 nomination and election. Brownback personally apologized to Romney on Monday.
Man, I just love a candiate who campaigns as a religious conservative and who takes time to knock followers of Jesus Christ. He wants to rebuild and strengthen American families, but apparently the uber-family focused Mormons cannot be trusted in this. He wants to protect life, but the prochoice Mormon Christians need not apply. He believed in religious liberty being restored to Christians, but not to all who confess Jesus as Lord and Savior. This guys believes in just about everything the Mormons believe regarding our American public square, but he does not like the people who confess the same Savior and advocate the same policies enough to accept them.
Seriously, who can vote for this guy?! Do we really need a president who would spent his days in the White House gnawing off his own feet?
My only hope is that he stays in the election long enough to give me pleasure for some time to come.
