NCR on Sam Brownback
Sam Brownback is the cover story for the May 11, 2007 issue of National Catholic Reporter:
WASHINGTON (National Catholic Reporter) – Sam Brownback, the two-term conservative Kansas senator and recent Catholic convert who wants to be president, is unconventional enough to be interesting, senior enough to be considered seriously, and substantive enough to have a message that could resonate in the Iowa presidential caucuses. But beyond the challenges of name recognition, fundraising and organization – no small hurdles even for the so-called top-tier candidates in the Republican field – Brownback’s got a bigger problem, one that he readily pinpoints: he is trying to convince the electorate that a social conservative, shaped and tempered by a decidedly Catholic ethos, can be a political winner.
First, the message
The “protection of innocent human life,” he told National Catholic Reporter in late April from his Senate office, “is a moral absolute. It is not one of those issues that falls to prudential judgment.”
Here Brownback is not talking just about abortion, where his is the leading pro-life voice in the Senate. That’s an easy one.
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A pretty accurate assessment and as Jay describes "a fairly even-handed and perhaps even sympathetic treatment (at least by NCR standards) of Sen. Brownback and his candidacy."
Via Jay at Pro Ecclesia, Pro Familia, Pro Civitate.
WASHINGTON (National Catholic Reporter) – Sam Brownback, the two-term conservative Kansas senator and recent Catholic convert who wants to be president, is unconventional enough to be interesting, senior enough to be considered seriously, and substantive enough to have a message that could resonate in the Iowa presidential caucuses. But beyond the challenges of name recognition, fundraising and organization – no small hurdles even for the so-called top-tier candidates in the Republican field – Brownback’s got a bigger problem, one that he readily pinpoints: he is trying to convince the electorate that a social conservative, shaped and tempered by a decidedly Catholic ethos, can be a political winner.
First, the message
The “protection of innocent human life,” he told National Catholic Reporter in late April from his Senate office, “is a moral absolute. It is not one of those issues that falls to prudential judgment.”
Here Brownback is not talking just about abortion, where his is the leading pro-life voice in the Senate. That’s an easy one.
[More]
A pretty accurate assessment and as Jay describes "a fairly even-handed and perhaps even sympathetic treatment (at least by NCR standards) of Sen. Brownback and his candidacy."
Via Jay at Pro Ecclesia, Pro Familia, Pro Civitate.
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