Having previously said he could vote for a pro-choice Republican, super-long-shot GOP presidential candidate Sam Brownback now predicts the Republican Party will not nomiate a pro-choice candidate for the presidency. The anti-abortion/pro-life website LifeNews.com reports...
Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas is considered by some to be the best pro-life candidate in the race for the Republican nomination for president in 2008. Whether he or another pro-life candidate wins the nomination, both Brownback and most pro-life advocates believe someone who backs abortion won't represent the party.
At a campaign stop in Iowa over the weekend, Brownback said he has problems with some of the other candidates based on their lack of commitment to pro-life principles.
It may not be him who gets the Republican Party's nod but Brownback seemed to indicate that it wouldn't be pro-abrotion ex-New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani either.
"You look at their track records and some are not pro-life,” he said. “I do not believe the party will nominate a pro-choice candidate.”
During a recent GOP presidential debate, Brownback said that he could support a pro-choice nominee:
"I could because I believe in the Ronald Reagan principle: that somebody that's with you 80 percent of the time is not your enemy, that's your friend and that's your ally," he said. "This is a big coalition party. And it's a coalition party that's governed for a number of years in this country."
So, while he's pro-life when it comes to abortion, Brownback is pro-choice when it comes to pro-choice Republican candidates - he could vote for one but hopes you and believes you can't.
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