Marcotte and Brownback
At the risk of turning blogging into the same exercise in mutual admiration that exists in the MSM, I point to Matt Zeitlin's post on Amanda Marcotte.
Marcotte gets into such a tizzy around anyone who has any Christian faith that the actual facts that distinguish one conservative Christian from another are totally irrelevant. They are all just “the enemy” to her and thus need to be mocked mercilessly despite any good qualities or distinguishing factors they may posses. - Matt Zeitlin
Indeed. Matt should have [ed. oops, my fault] mentioned that Sam Brownback has also adopted two children: Jenna from China and Mark from Guatemala. These are hardly the actions of a man that could be identified by Marcotte's description,
He tends to be one of those white guys who wants to stomp out anyone with a genetic tendency away from in-breeding, particularly those people who tend to the darker side of the scale - Amanda Marcotte
Marcotte's post also seems to indicate that she doesn't know that Sam Brownback is a Catholic. That to this day she remains this ignornat about another presidential candidate just astounds me. How did a major campaign hire this woman as one of their political bloggers?
By all accounts Sam Brownback is a true believer. I recently had a beer soaked conversation with a young right-wing journalist whom I consider to be one of the best reporters on Capitol HIll, and he said to me that he didn't care that many of Sam Brownback's positions were essentially liberal ones. I ticked them off: government project to end cancer in 10 years, intervention in Darfur, anti-death penalty, etc.
"This man REALLY believes it," he insisted, noting how rare a quality that is in any position. "God will smile down on this country if he is elected." I'm actually surprised that Brownback hasn't attracted more attention as he is nearly the perfect candidate to represent the most important issues for both the religious right and the religious left - of World and Christian Century.
I want to give Brownback a little credit though. His speech at CPAC was a not-bad-at-all theological reflection on the interaction between righteousness and justice. He also champions one cause I fully endorse, prison reform. The states should take the lead on this issue.
Michael Brendan Dougherty
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Huh? It seems to me he did: "Brownback himself has adopted Guatemalan and Chinese children."
You both could have mentioned his support for mass immigration and amnesty. That's not good policy of course, and he was hypocritical about preventing Somali Bantu from settling in Kansas. But it’s another position that *probably* you wouldn't see held by someone trying to stamp out interbreeding or dark-skinned people (or whatever it is Marcotte is accusing him of in her confusing and poorly-written sentence),