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Washington Post on Sam Brownback

June 8, 2006 |

Pro Ecclesia, a new member of the State of Ohio Blog Alliance (welcome to the team!) links to an interesting article on Kansas Senator Sam Brownback.

This Washington Post article intentionally juxtaposes Brownback’s humility with his conservative political beliefs–a combination that the reporter evidently thinks is an anomaly. Here’s a quote:

Sundays back in Topeka, the senator, who says he is not himself Opus Dei, attends two services. First he goes to Mass by himself, then to his old nondenominational church with his family, who did not convert. His wife, the former Mary Stauffer, comes from a wealthy family that used to own a media conglomerate. They have five children, the two youngest adopted after the Brownbacks applied in China and Guatemala simultaneously and both applications — unexpectedly — came through.

He invoked his adopted daughter recently during the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Memphis, where potential ‘08 candidates gathered to speechify.

“Tomorrow, because a woman in China saw that abortion was killing a child, Jenna Joy Brownback, my daughter, will have an eighth birthday party,” he told the crowd, prompting applause.

People who can put a face to the abortion debate (a) are far more likely to persuade others of their position, and (b) are far more likely to believe it themselves (as opposed to being politically opportunistic on the issue).

Sam Brownback would make a great President of the United States.

I haven’t yet made a personal or political commitment to any candidate yet. I have a feeling that even if a few social-issue conservatives enter the race, only one will be in the running by the time Ohio’s primary comes, so I don’t feel a pressing need to make an early commitment.

That having been said, I will be closely monitoring and posting on the truly conservative Presidential candidates.

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