Last week, Sam Brownback met with Rudy Giuliani. Deal Hudson has an account that concurs with what I have heard from Brownback associates and with what Brownback’s people have told outside groups:
Brownback caused a controversy by accepting an invitation from Rudy Giuliani to discuss life issues following the Senator’s decision to drop out of the […]
Yesterday, Jim Bopp, a supporter of Mitt Romney and former General Counsel (they actually spend text clarifying that he is the former) to the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) attacked Sam Brownback for saying something nice about Rudy Giuliani.
Turns out that he was nasty enough that NRLC disavowed his statements. I have obtained a […]
I have a lot of admiration for Senator Sam Brownback. I am deeply sympathetic to a lot of positions that he has taken.
But he is dropping out. When the tank runs out of gas, the car stops moving. That’s what happened with the Senator and money. They did a fantastic job with the material that […]
A number of people have asked me why I think that the religious right hasn’t found a candidate. The supposition is that if the religious right came around and supported someone like Mike Huckabee or Sam Brownback, they could be the nominee. Here is my attempt to answer that question.
First, the process starts with natural […]
Yesterday, the Biden-Brownback plan passed the Senate with 75 votes. For the first time, someone on both the left and the right can claim genuine progress on pulling out troops.
As Marc Ambinder points out, this is a good talking point for Biden, where Joe Biden is counting that liberal activists in Iowa are less […]
One way of viewing the result of the straw polls is how it re-organizes the field. For a while, at least, Mike Huckabee can claim a pseudo first-tier status, compared in the same breath as the big-4. The Wall Street Journal presented this this way:
Should Mr. Huckabee capitalize on his second-place showing here Saturday to […]
C-SPAN’s coverage makes it clear that he brought lots and lots of kids to the straw poll.
Sam Brownback starts with tying together families with terrorism. Huckabee did that in his own way.
He really talks about abortion differently than the others.
He talked about "reviving the economy." Republicans don’t talk that way. Then he goes on […]
The Politico’s Roger Simon is reporting that Mike Huckabee has no buses:
Mike Huckabee does not have buses.
Huckabee needs to get people to the straw poll in Ames this Saturday and even if he had the money for buses — which he doesn’t — there are no buses left to rent.
Jonathan Martin is reporting that […]
Sam Brownback’s campaign has been making phone calls in Iowa with solid facts. He has been attacking Tom Tancredo:
Brownback’s campaign has been making phone calls in Iowa that criticize Tancredo for taking campaign money from a Planned Parenthood backer.
Tancredo says Brownback is a longtime friend who “is well aware of my lifelong commitment to […]
In Q1, Mike Huckabee’s fundraising team disappointed. Looks like he did it in Q2 also:
Republican Mike Huckabee raised $764,000 for his presidential campaign from April through June and had $437,000 cash on hand at the end of last month, according to financial reports filed Sunday.
The former Arkansas governor spent nearly $703,000 during those three months. […]
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