The Anti-Sam Brownback Blog

I have written before about Brownback’s attempt to garner support from Christian fundamentalist Bush voters who feel their issues have not been addressed by the current administration. An Agape Press article from today is a good example of that strategy:

…Pro-family groups are charging the White House with not going enough to push for a Federal Marriage Amendment. The amendment will have to wait until next year for action, and supporters are asking the White to do more. Senator Sam Brownback agrees. “I hope we get the White House to engage much more aggressively on the marriage amendment,” the Kansas Republican says. The amendment was passed in subcommittee by a narrow party-line vote, but has not make it to the floor for action yet. Brownback maintains that is where President Bush can make a difference. “It’s my hope that next year, even in the [president’s] State of the Union message … that he will encourage and state strong support for defining marriage in the Constitution as a man and a woman,” he says. Brownback feels that until the president takes a more aggressive stance, the amendment will languish — and the courts, not the people, will define marriage.

This is an issue that has incensed fundamentalists. While Bush campaigned hard on the intolerance amendment, the moment he was elected the issue was shelved. Many church leaders feel forgotten at best and deceived at worst. Senator Sam Brownback hopes to capitalize on this feeling and promise the fundamentalists that their issues will be heard should he be elected President.

This strategy has become markedly easier to pursue as Bush’s poll ratings have fallen. While criticizing the President just a year ago would have been political suicide for a republican presidential hopeful, today it seems required. Both John McCain (on the issue of torture) and Tom Tancredo (immigration) have vocally disagreed with the President in the past few weeks.

The next year will see Brownback continuing to argue that Bush is not socially conservative enough for his hardcore supporters. I wouldn’t be surprised to see an Internet campaign (ala Howard Dean) that would attempt to join together fundamentalist Brownback supporters from across the nation for fundraising support.

While some of this is conjecture, I know for certain that Brownback will continue his assault on the GLBT community. He seems to truly enjoy promoting intolerance and bigotry.