Status: Withdrawn from Race
Entered Race: January 20, 2007
Withdrew: October 19, 2007
Sam Brownback is a Republican U.S. Senator from Kansas and, as of January 20, 2006, a candidate for the 2008 Republican nomination for President. He piggybacked his announcement to run for president on that of the better known Democratic Senator from New York Hillary Rodham Clinton in an attempt to win additional news media attention. Brownback's party primary election niche is that of a non-Mormon Christian conservative who appears to timidly oppose the War in Iraq. A pusillanimous position to take on the most important issue of the day to be sure but it reflects the sentiment of a significant segment of the Republican primary electorate. They know something is very wrong with the War in Iraq and want to get the U.S. miltiary out of the quagmire without their having to acknowledge responsibility for having supported the war in the first place.
Brownback presents himself as a consistent Christian conservative. "I am pro-life and whole life," he claims by way of explaining his opposition to abortion domestically and apparent support for the U.S. as world policeman to stop the Darfur genocide.
Brownback presents himself as a consistent Christian conservative. "I am pro-life and whole life," he claims by way of explaining his opposition to abortion domestically and apparent support for the U.S. as world policeman to stop the Darfur genocide.
Brownback dropped out of the race October 19, 2007.