The Anti-Sam Brownback Blog

So apparently Senator Sam Brownback doesn’t care that his fellow Kansan Senator Pat Roberts believes McCain is more fit for the Presidency:

Brownback, who formed a presidential exploratory committee less than two weeks ago, said prior to a speech to Christian radio employees that it didn’t make sense to worry about endorsements at this point even if the talk centered on Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan.

“This is very early,” said Brownback, also a Kansas Republican. “There’s a long ways to go.”

Roberts said in a statement that he hadn’t endorsed any of the several potential candidates for president. However, The Washington Post reported that Roberts told a group of lobbyists and corporate executives this week that he intended to back McCain, an Arizona senator considered a front-runner for the nomination.

So Roberts now claims he “did no such thing” as endorse McCain. I would imagine Roberts has sent a couple of nasty emails towards Bob Novak, who broke the story in the Washington Post last week.

Roberts must have known his voice of support for McCain would eventually get out… so it is not clear to me why he declared his support so early. Does he think Brownback will drop out soon,perhaps when his paltry fundraising report is tunrned in Jan. 31st? Maybe Roberts thought he could keep it under wraps until that point. Then again, perhaps Roberts thought a private meeting about a front-runner for 2008 would be kept private. Yeah, right.

Regardless, having your home state Senator endorse some other guy doesn’t look good for a candidate like Brownback who is trying to prove that he is relevant to the debate.