The Republican presidential candidate who generates the most contempt among the Left is Kansas Senator Sam Brownback. On Saturday he announced that he's officially entering the race for the Republican nomination.
Brownback wants to position himself as the "true conservative" among Republican presidential candidates. He's a vocal opponent of gay marriage and abortion.
He's attracting notice from both ends of the political spectrum.
As I've remarked earlier about Brownback, left-wing gay activists have taken to mockingly nicknaming the senator "Brownback Mountain."
But it may not end at name calling.
Time to get into the Way Back Machine.
Despite meager support among Republicans when they ran for president in 2000, some gays couldn't stomach the very idea of Gary Bauer and Alan Keyes.
running.
Sex advice columnist and gay-rights activist Dan Savage, pictured above, took his Bauer-Keyes hatred to a bizarre level seven years ago. He volunteered for Gary Bauer's campaign shortly before the Iowa caucuses--while suffering from the flu. By licking pens, doorknobs, and any other device that could be touched by other Bauer staff, Savage hope to use germ warfare to undermine the Bauer effort.
At his caucus--which non-Iowan Savage voted in--he selected Alan Keyes with his caucus vote.
His reasoning?
From a 2000 Salon article:
You see, when I vote in Republican primaries or caucuses -- and I almost always do -- I vote for the person who can most damage the Republican Party in the upcoming general election.
Not exactly Jeffersonian democracy.
A warning to the Brownback campaign. Watch out for the guy in the picture.
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