Brownback Out?

According to an AP report, Sen. Sam Brownback will announce today that he is withdrawing from the race for the Republican nomination for President of the United States. Brownback's campaign website has a news release about a press conference to be held today at 3:45 pm CDT today in Topeka at the State Capitol. It doesn't give any clues as to what the conference will be about. I suspect that the AP story has got it right.

According to the AP, the reason is the campaign's problem with fundraising. According to Chuck Hurley, a Brownback advisor: "Brownback's campaign didn't catch fire. It's just the field is still so full, and the pool of voters he was most fishing from was almost perfectly split between him and Mike Huckabee."

Unfortunately that is true that the campaign didn't catch fire as it should have. But I don't think it is only for the rason given by Hurley. The reality is that the media all but ignored Brownback's 3rd place finish. It struck me like they were intentionally ignoring how well he really did. This is the 1st time I honestly remember the fact that the media hasn't payed close attention to 3rd place, despite it's past historical significance.

In reality, he should have gotten better coverage & a bounce in funds etc. That he didn't because of the lack of coverage by the Main Stream Media shows the power the MSM still has despite the fact it acts like it has lost so much power. (It is declining, & deservedly so, but not as fast, unfortunately, as the would have you believe.) What puzzles me is how much Fox News ignored it.

Another part of what hurt Brownback was his support of a path for citizenship for illegal immigrants. As a result, many conservatives who normally would have supported him went to other Pro-Life candidates instead. & even though I don't agree with it, I understand his logic behind it.

As a Brownback supporter I don't want to see him pull out, but I understand why he probably will.

If the report is right, & he does also announce he will run for governor of Kansas, I wish him well. Should he win, it will give him added qualifications should he decide to try again down the road to run for president.

The big question for me is, who will I switch my support to? & what can we do to guarentee that it isn't Rudy who gets the nod?