CrushKerry.com says has spotted a potential dark horse candidate for 2008--Sam Brownback. Regardless of your views on his other views, this would be potentially the best possible president to continue to carry out the president's Vision for Space Exploration, with emphasis on entrepreneurs.

[Update at 11 PM EST]

Nick Kristof is fascinated as well despite his "right-wing" views.

Brownback may well be a rising star.

This latest ceremony at the Catholic Information Center will not draw the attention of the Washington Post as happened last year when Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas entered the fold. Some of McCloskey's earlier converts also caused chatter inside the Beltway - columnist Robert Novak, economist Lawrence Kudlow and former abortion activist Bernard Nathanson.

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Social science on this matter is conclusive: Children need both a mom and a dad. Study after study has shown that children do best in a home with a married, biological mother and father.

So if this is an argument against gay marriage (which it isn't, I did a bit of research and was shocked to learn that 50% of hetro-couples have been getting divorced for decades before gay marriage was even an idea much less legal in several developed nations, this is voodoo thinking at its best but I’ll play) then for the sake of the children shouldn't divorce then be as illegal as gay marriage?

If one of the parents is abusive is it better to leave the child with that parent rather than have the child raised in a single parent home?

As for this joke continuing Space Exploration yeah like there will be any money left for it after BushCo has run everything into the ground.

How much has Iraq cost so far? How many billions? How many billions more to go? The U.S. will be lucky to be able to buy Moon Pies for the NASA snack machines much less go to Mars.

That 50% figure looks bogus to me. I can believe that 50% of *marriages* end in divorce, but that would include people who serially divorce and re-marry. That's going to skew the stats significantly.

Yet another insightful viewpoint by a member of the bitter left. Might as well said "Bush sucks" and saved us the time.

Hmmm, what makes Brownback a good NASA candidate? I'm not impressed by the CrushKerry peoples' priorities (eg, the social conservative stuff). What's his real qualifications?

> Hmmm, what makes Brownback a good NASA candidate? I'm not impressed
> by the CrushKerry peoples' priorities (eg, the social conservative stuff).
> What's his real qualifications?

A good NASA candidate? The article is about the possibility of Brownback being a candidate for President of the United States, not head of NASA.

In Presidential elections, being a "NASA" candidate doesn't count for much. In the last election, the union representing NASA employees supported Kerry, even though Bush was considered the pro-NASA candidate. Even Keith Cowing supported Kerry, citing mostly social issues. The response to Brownback would probably be similar. NASA's not really a significant voting block, though, except maybe in Florida, and then only if it's a close election.

Oops. Rand did say "president" didn't he? I thought this was more speculation over O'Keefe's replacement not the more distant replacement of Bush. Guess I flunked reading comprehension this time. Sorry.

Despite my occasional Democrat leanings, I could certainly see myself wholeheartedly supporting Brownback.

Jason Bontrager

You're right, sort of, that number isn't right, it's much more complex. The 50% is an averaging with a methodology that's hardly conclusive or completely accurate.

This is an interesting bit about it.

But my main point that gay marriage has / will have no affect on hetro marriage stands.

Oh and Bush sucks.

But my main point that gay marriage has / will have no affect on hetro marriage stands.

Not that it's related to the post, or that I have a strong opinion on it (I doubt if it will have any effect on existing marriages, but future ones, in which children are raised believing that marrying Jennie, or marrying Johnnie--it's all good--could be problematic), but there's no way for you (or anyone) to know that.

And as for Bush's suckitude, you can't imagine how pleased I am to have idiots like you here to so elevate the discussion at my humble web site. Comments like that say much more about you than they do about the president.