The week started with a bang for Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan. While campaigning at a tractor show in Waukee, Iowa, Brownback fired a replica Civil War cannon. The Des Moines Register reports that during a ride around “on a 90-year-old steam-engine tractor, Brownback spotted the cannon, braked to a stop and hopped off… Campaign staff, running late because of an earlier event, watched and snapped photos as their man helped prepare the 6-foot-long gun. One aide eyed his watch and muttered, ‘Let’s go.”
The explosion was a fitting way to begin the week, as fellow Republican candidates former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Rep. Tom Tancredo R-Colo. fired back in response to attacks from Team Brownback.
In a press release titled ‘Romney Hostile to Boy Scout Leadership and Principles,’ Team Brownback asserts that “Romney opposed Boy Scout officials who wished to prevent gay men from becoming troop leaders and was hostile to Scout participation in the 2002 Olympics.” And automated phone calls from Brownback’s campaign to Iowa voters have targeted Romney’s and Tancredo’s records on abortion. Tancredo told the Des Moines Register that the calls are “despicable.”
The Romney and Tancredo campaigns have both demanded an apology from Brownback, who so far doesn’t seem willing.
Tancredo took his demand to YouTube:
CBS called Brownback’s strategy “bold,” while at least one conservative blogger, Michelle Malkin, called the strategy “desperate.”
All of the back-and-forth attacks apparently is fine with Pat Boone, however. According to the L.A. Times, the 1950s crooner is supporting Brownback - and Romney.
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