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Huckabee campaign to Brownback: Stop whining
By rawhide | August 3, 2007
This is in regards to the mini-scandal over an e-mail sent by a pastor supportive of Huckabee that questioned Sam Brownback’s ability to be president based upon his Catholicism. The Brownback campaign has demanded that Huckabee apoligize.
It doesn’t look like that apology is forthcoming. From a statement sent by Mike Huckabee’s campaign manager.
“It’s time for Sam Brownback to stop whining and start showing some of the Christian character he seems to always find lacking in others…
“For Brownback to claim that the Governor ‘owes him an apology’ is nonsense and indicates that if Brownback is going to fall to pieces every time a supporter of the Governor says something he doesn’t like, he clearly isn’t tough enough to be President. The Governor strongly disavowed the statement by the supporter, but that wasn’t enough for Brownback. He continued to cry about it. The irony is that unlike Senator Brownback, I have been a Catholic my entire life, as have several of the senior staff members in the Huckabee campaign…
“Senator Brownback surely has better things to do than police the private emails of a single supporter who said things for which he later apologized and which should have been sufficient for most Christians to accept. As a lifelong Catholic, I was taught that when a person apologized, we were to forgive him and go forward, not shop for other apologies from people not even involved in the original sin. It’s time for these silly accusations to stop and for all of us to focus on leading the country and solving problems that the American people care about.”
The Brownback campaign responded by calling the Huckabee response “hysterical” and again denounced the “anti-Catholic whisper campaign.”
Can’t we all just get along?
Topics: Campaign 2008, Republican Presidential contenders, religion, Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee |
