Good advice for Brownback

Politics is less about glamor and power than about more mundane and even tawdry stuff.

Here's some good advice for Kansas Senator Sam Brownback- a guy who's in the very strong position of being potentially the candidate of the social conservatives here in Iowa in 2008... if he can bring himself to raise the necessary money.

Brownback- who recently spent a night in prison in order to experience in some small way what convicts go through- is a man who honestly and sincerely does combine the adjectives "compassionate" and "conservative." How he would do in November is hard to say, but he's an attractive guy and from all indications a genuinely good man- who will doubtless be vilified as an extremist and a fanatic and a fascist and a serial philatelist by the social Left. He is, after all, a committed Christian (shudder!)- a Roman Catholic, to be specific- who actually takes the teachings of his church seriously.