“Brownback’s big backer”
Well, it looks as though Senator Brownback just may be able to hang with the big boys when it comes to raising money after all.
(LvJoe)
December 17, 2006
Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet
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December 17th, 2006 at 1:53 pm
“In the Catholic community, he’s looked upon as kind of on the fringes,” said the Rev. Robert Drinan, a liberal Roman Catholic priest and former Democratic congressman who teaches at Georgetown University.
Yeah, Drinan’s one to say something like that. Snort.
December 17th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
Too bad Bernard Gui isn’t alive and running for office, because I’m sure Tom Monaghan would prefer to back him for president in 2008 to Brownback who’s only a recent convert to Catholicism. Monaghan would undoubtedly donate even more money to someone as philosophically in tune with his own beliefs as the former Grand Inquisitor of Toulouse was in his day, because ideological birds of a feather do flock together.
December 17th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
Ooooooooh, someone read “The Notary”!!!
While it is too bad 13th century Dominicans can’t run for 21st century offices, its probably an even greater shame that we can’t avoid the ignorant bloviations of some by escaping to the 13th century.
You do realise, Jay, that both Tom Monaghan and Bernard Gui are also converts, don’t you?
December 17th, 2006 at 7:14 pm
Have the womb control freaks, anti-birth control busybodies, wingnuts and blastocystophiles ever considered banding together geographically (perhaps to Brownback’s Kansas) and seceding?
Perhaps the incoming Congress would even support that.
December 17th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
I’d settle for baby-killers quitting these comboxes…
December 17th, 2006 at 8:47 pm
Franklin, would you rather have a echo chamber?
December 17th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
Wow, tough choice Franklin.
Troll. Echo-chamber. Troll. Echo-chamber.
December 17th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Dang you, Roger, Dang you!
You beat me to it (making the comment I was primed to make)!
December 17th, 2006 at 9:42 pm
John:
We tried secession, and the Yankees launched total war. (Thank God Lincoln didn’t have atomic weapons, cuz I bet he’d have used them.)
On the other hand, if secession were really on the table . . .
December 17th, 2006 at 10:38 pm
In the current political climate, who would oppose it? The Bush/Fudd administration will not wage war on radicals who call themselves Christian, and the incoming Congress would in all likelihood be glad to see the hatemongers go. Maybe Santorum could move there and seek a leadership position himself. I sounds to me like a win-win proposition.
December 17th, 2006 at 11:09 pm
“both Tom Monaghan and Bernard Gui are also converts”
Converted from what? Reasonableness to irrationality?
December 17th, 2006 at 11:16 pm
Nah, if the hate mongers go, who’d keep the incoming congress in power?
As for an echo chamber, those on this side of the question “Is it ok to kill innocent human beings?” are not uniform in their opinions.
The absence of a pro-death contingent, in which you are firmly entrenched, would only increase the quality of dialogue, while leaving plenty of room for disagreement.
Besides, it’d be one less person who can’t spell caricature yet still wishes to brag about his adroit deployment of the English tongue. And hopefully everyone left would understand something about genetics and metabolism, rather than embarrassing themselves with assertions based in ignorance easily remedied by a high school biology course.
Even one offered in Tennessee.
December 17th, 2006 at 11:19 pm
No, Jerome, both are converts to the Catholic faith. Both were dead in Original Sin and were redeemed by Baptism, in the same way any other convert is. They were just younger than Brownback.
But thanks for proving my earlier comment true.
December 17th, 2006 at 11:49 pm
Franklin, I acknowledge having an occasional brainfart regarding spelling, more often from haste than from ignorance. That pales, however, next to the notion that one’s political beliefs or opinions, as distinct from actions, kill anyone. If my beliefs could in fact kill, do you really think I wouldn’t start with you?
Folks like you and Ann Coulter make me wish birth control were retroactive.
December 18th, 2006 at 5:52 am
This is good news for Brownback and it will be a joy to vote for him for President.
December 18th, 2006 at 6:42 am
Jay and John-
Is this really all y’all have to offer?
December 18th, 2006 at 10:33 am
John:
There are a lot of very intelligent liberals who post on this blog - Grover, Publius, TP,etc. I don’t think anyone has a problem debating them because they generally back up their opinions rather well. You, on the other, offer absolutely no substance whatsoever. You’re basically a well educated moron.
So there’s no desire for an echo chamber - just a troll free environment where idiots like you go away.
December 18th, 2006 at 11:01 am
Have the womb control freaks, anti-birth control busybodies, wingnuts and blastocystophiles ever considered banding together geographically (perhaps to Brownback’s Kansas) and seceding?
i will soon be declaring myself dictator of oklahoma. i will then mass my forces and march east to the sea, burning all abortion clinics and starbucks in my path. i will take washington and rename it reagan. i will make carlos mencia the new president of the united states of lucahoma. i will then return to my oklahoma ranch like a modern day cincinnatus.
December 18th, 2006 at 12:21 pm
Carlos Mencia? Not another darkhorse GOP candidate?
December 18th, 2006 at 6:15 pm
Lucas,
I like your idea. I will follow suit and declare myself Emperor of Orange County, California. My forces will march North to Sacramento, destroying all ugly churches along the way, starting with the cathedral in Los Angeles. I will take Sacramento and rename it Reagan. I will install Tom McClintok as the governor and then retire to my Orange County home.
December 18th, 2006 at 7:48 pm
Of course political beliefs kill.
Unless you are really so thick that you expect me to believe that advocating that the state rescind all limitations on murder, in short advocating that the members of the nation be allowed to kill with impunity, would not make me party to the ensuing bloodbath.
And it’s a shame you aren’t the least bit willing to cop to your astounding ignorance of science.
And for the record, if my beliefs could kill, I’d change my beliefs.
Not you though, the murderous rage since ill concealed just below your spittle laced invective. Ever notice I don’t call anyone else here a babykiller? Its a response to your assinine schtick.
December 18th, 2006 at 7:49 pm
Sits ill concealed, I mean. Thank the Lord I don’t make a habit of braying about my erudite deployment of the Queen’s English.
December 18th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
Jeeze, I’m slow on the uptake. If your political beliefs can’t kill, none of ours can control wombs.
If they’re just little old beliefs, why get worked into a tizzy? Unless its just plain old fear that if our beliefs had force behind them (as yours currently do) there’d be a lot less death on the whole. i think you want to keep bloody dismemberments at maximum simply because misery loves company. Its a special kind of bitterness, that.
December 19th, 2006 at 3:18 am
Thoughtcrime, Franklin?
Why, when I read one of Franklin’s screeds, do I hope for John Astin to appear and to deadpan, “But I’m feeling much better now”?
December 19th, 2006 at 8:23 am
On another subject–
Feddie, any comment on Brownback’s meddling in the Neff nomination? Especially the suggestion that her nomination be conditioned on a personal guarantee from Ms. Neff to recuse herself from cases dealing with same-sex unions?
Seems improper to me.
December 19th, 2006 at 8:30 am
Jeff-
I am inclined to agree. I think seeking additional information was fine, given the legitimate concerns of judicial overreaching in the area of sex and marriage. But conditioning your vote on a promise to recuse strikes me as improper as well.
December 19th, 2006 at 9:18 am
Why, when I read one of Franklin’s screeds, do I hope for John Astin to appear and to deadpan, “But I’m feeling much better now”?
ahhhh let frank alone. i want to know why everytime i read one of your posts i have to go look up the person or thing your talking about and once i have found it i find that its mostly bunk.
December 19th, 2006 at 9:19 am
you drive me to drink (wink wink nudge nudge)
December 19th, 2006 at 1:34 pm
Sure, John, thoughtcrime. That’s all they are, your thoughts. There’s no action involved at all.
I do have to agree with Lucas here. Your schtick doesn’t even have an entertainment value to redeem it.
December 19th, 2006 at 3:21 pm
Glenn Reynolds slams Sam Brownback in this post: http://instapundit.com/archives2/2006/12/post_1145.php
I agree with Glenn that the recognition of marriage rights is a matter of public policy that should be decided by state legislatures or voter inititives(not federal or state judges). I suspect Romney and Brownback trying to make points on attacking gay marriage will actually end up backfiring. What they should be attacking is judicial legislation and state that issue of gay marriage are up to the voters in each state to decide upon. We need commonsense on this issue.