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Politics : The Next President 2008 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (202)	1/20/2007 7:54:46 PM
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Brownback joins GOP presidential field 2007/1 By JOHN HANNA, Associated Press Writer 4 minutes ago TOPEKA, Kan. - K, , ) jumped into the 2008 presidential race Saturday, a favorite of the religious right now in an uphill battle against better known rivals for the GOP nomination. "My family and I are taking the first steps on the yellow brick road to the White House. It‘s a great journey," the two-term senator told hundreds of supporters. He pledged to fight on behalf of the nation‘s cultural values and to focus on rebuilding families. The 50-year-old Brownback offers himself as a "full-scale Ronald Reagan conservative." Brownback‘s announcement, planned weeks ago, came hours after Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton , D-N.Y., entered her party‘s 2008 race with a posting on her Web site with little prior notice. The Democratic National Committee issued a statement calling Brownback "a stubborn ideologue who places his own political agenda over the needs of the American people." "He has a consistency that others don‘t seem to have," said Hollie Cook, a 30-year-old mother of three from Walkerton, Ind., a Brownback supporter who was traveling with her family to Texas and decided to stop for Saturday‘s event. In his announcement, Brownback said the country needs to support the traditional definition of marriage as a union of one man and one woman and said most Americans believe in "a culture of life." He pledged never to sign a tax increase if elected president and proposed scrapping the current income tax law, saying it "should be taken behind the barn and killed with a dull ax." But Giuliani is a longtime supporter of abortion rights, gay rights and gun control. Brownback, however, can be trusted, said Brenda Travis, a 57-year-old pastor at a Topeka church. She said she likes his views on abortion and gay marriage. While he is on solid footing on social issues, Brownback has broken with some Republicans on the Iraq war and immigration. He opposes President Bush ‘s plan to send more troops to Iraq, saying, "Iraq requires a political rather than a military solution." Brownback also favors an eventual path to citizenship for some of the nation‘s 11 million illegal immigrants. He was raised on a farm near tiny Parker, Kan. — population 281 today — where his parents still live. He was elected to the House in 1994, part of the Republican revolution that gave the GOP control of both the House and Senate for the first time in 40 years. Two years later, Brownback was elected to the Senate, winning the seat Bob Dole vacated to run for the presidency. Brownback, who promised to serve no more than two full terms, has said he will not seek re-election in 2010 newsone.ca