Comments on: Don’t Sweat it, Sam http://gop3.com/2009/03/04/dont-sweat-it-sam/ Fighting Like Warriors and Thinking Right. Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:53:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: James King http://gop3.com/2009/03/04/dont-sweat-it-sam/comment-page-1/#comment-364888 James King Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:55:55 +0000 http://gop3.com/?p=3331#comment-364888 Daniel, As far as Brownback's "endorsement" of a fellow Kansan: Politics is a lot like baseball. Sometimes your team requires leverage, such as the ability to turn a double-play. To do this, you must get a runner on first, without risking a potential home-run by the batter. You could hit the batter with the ball for an automatic first base, but this incurs wrath from "both sides of the isle." So you throw four balls and walk the batter as part of an overall strategy to win the game. That game win for Brownback is the governorship in 2010. By every angle, he played the right strategy. This is fantastic commentary. You are truly an analyst, as opposed to an ideologue. I'm sure I speak for many intelligent, freedom loving Americans in saying how much I respect you and your talents. Daniel,

As far as Brownback’s “endorsement” of a fellow Kansan: Politics is a lot like baseball. Sometimes your team requires leverage, such as the ability to turn a double-play. To do this, you must get a runner on first, without risking a potential home-run by the batter. You could hit the batter with the ball for an automatic first base, but this incurs wrath from “both sides of the isle.” So you throw four balls and walk the batter as part of an overall strategy to win the game. That game win for Brownback is the governorship in 2010. By every angle, he played the right strategy.

This is fantastic commentary. You are truly an analyst, as opposed to an ideologue. I’m sure I speak for many intelligent, freedom loving Americans in saying how much I respect you and your talents.

]]> By: Padre Bill http://gop3.com/2009/03/04/dont-sweat-it-sam/comment-page-1/#comment-363577 Padre Bill Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:24:54 +0000 http://gop3.com/?p=3331#comment-363577 Dear Daniel, Your post calling the criticism of some pro-life leaders “misplaced, short-sighted, and ungrateful” is not entirely accurate. “Misplaced:” Yes, disunity among pro-lifers is not helpful. However, by the Senator’s endorsement* of Sebelius he has to some degree placed himself in league with the forces of death. Perhaps, the criticism of some of the pro-life leadership can help to minimize the scandal caused by Brownback’s choice. (*In the your opening paragraph you characterize his statement as congratulatory - which if properly worded indeed could be nothing more than a civil thing to do. However, Brownback has actually ENDORSED her nomination and pledged to vote to confirm his “fellow Kansan.”) “Short sighted:” You lay out well what is probably the political calculation made by the Senator’s camp. Agreed, Sebelius will likely be confirmed, with or without Brownback’s support. This makes your second point mute. Re: your 3rd point. A reminder, he had the option of not opposing (not voting) on her nomination. Re: your 4th point. Yes, there is a reason to pay attention to the “issue” of a major pro-life Senator endorsing a person who is a notorious supporter of abortion rights: it may show that this man is willing to choose political expediency over principle. Should the unfortunate episode be put behind us? Yes. But some folks may rightly conclude that his “pro-life” credentials have been compromised. Re: your 4th point. So, I guess one is to conclude that Senator Brownback’s endorsement is helpful to the pro-life cause and helps make Obama pay a “political price?” “Ungrateful.” In my opinion you rashly jump to this conclusion. What you have laid out is largely political calculus; but you have ignored that there are moral issues involved. Am not accusing the Senator of sin: but, on the face of things, we have a man who has endorsed a very able “pro choice” woman to a post where she can help advance the culture of death in a possibly dramatic ways. His endorsement is also a source of scandal. Sometimes in making a decision I find it helpful to ask such as: would St. Thomas More have done this? Would any of the Saints have made such an endorsement? Well, at the danger of seeming “emotional,” and thus being judged as having lost my faculties to “reason,” I say: NO. Dear Daniel, Your post calling the criticism of some pro-life leaders “misplaced, short-sighted, and ungrateful” is not entirely accurate.
“Misplaced:” Yes, disunity among pro-lifers is not helpful. However, by the Senator’s endorsement* of Sebelius he has to some degree placed himself in league with the forces of death. Perhaps, the criticism of some of the pro-life leadership can help to minimize the scandal caused by Brownback’s choice. (*In the your opening paragraph you characterize his statement as congratulatory – which if properly worded indeed could be nothing more than a civil thing to do. However, Brownback has actually ENDORSED her nomination and pledged to vote to confirm his “fellow Kansan.”)
“Short sighted:” You lay out well what is probably the political calculation made by the Senator’s camp. Agreed, Sebelius will likely be confirmed, with or without Brownback’s support. This makes your second point mute. Re: your 3rd point. A reminder, he had the option of not opposing (not voting) on her nomination. Re: your 4th point. Yes, there is a reason to pay attention to the “issue” of a major pro-life Senator endorsing a person who is a notorious supporter of abortion rights: it may show that this man is willing to choose political expediency over principle. Should the unfortunate episode be put behind us? Yes. But some folks may rightly conclude that his “pro-life” credentials have been compromised. Re: your 4th point. So, I guess one is to conclude that Senator Brownback’s endorsement is helpful to the pro-life cause and helps make Obama pay a “political price?”
“Ungrateful.” In my opinion you rashly jump to this conclusion. What you have laid out is largely political calculus; but you have ignored that there are moral issues involved. Am not accusing the Senator of sin: but, on the face of things, we have a man who has endorsed a very able “pro choice” woman to a post where she can help advance the culture of death in a possibly dramatic ways. His endorsement is also a source of scandal.
Sometimes in making a decision I find it helpful to ask such as: would St. Thomas More have done this? Would any of the Saints have made such an endorsement? Well, at the danger of seeming “emotional,” and thus being judged as having lost my faculties to “reason,” I say: NO.

]]> By: Kansas Republican http://gop3.com/2009/03/04/dont-sweat-it-sam/comment-page-1/#comment-363561 Kansas Republican Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:19:01 +0000 http://gop3.com/?p=3331#comment-363561 Fabulous! So appreciate someone summing this up so well. It's tough to be a "mature, rational conservative" in Kansas... It's assumed by the pro-life community, that one must be emotional and erratic to be conservative. Keep it up! Fabulous! So appreciate someone summing this up so well. It’s tough to be a “mature, rational conservative” in Kansas… It’s assumed by the pro-life community, that one must be emotional and erratic to be conservative. Keep it up!

]]> By: T http://gop3.com/2009/03/04/dont-sweat-it-sam/comment-page-1/#comment-363542 T Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:36:53 +0000 http://gop3.com/?p=3331#comment-363542 This is by far the best analysis of the situation I have seen by ANYONE. Good work on putting out the truth. This is by far the best analysis of the situation I have seen by ANYONE. Good work on putting out the truth.

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