{"id":680,"date":"2008-06-19T09:41:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T09:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/06\/brownback-to-mccain-talk-about.html"},"modified":"2008-06-19T09:41:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T09:41:08","slug":"brownback-to-mccain-talk-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/06\/brownback-to-mccain-talk-about.html","title":{"rendered":"Brownback to McCain: Talk About Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, erstwhile presidential candidate, says his choice for president, Senator McCain, needs to talk more about his personal faith. &#8220;I think he should,&#8221; Brownback tells National Public Radio, &#8220;but not just as a way to warm up to Christian conservatives, but to show his country his heart. I think the country wants to see that, wants to understand that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brownback, who made the remarks near the end of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=91650094\">an interview <\/a>on &#8220;All Things Considered&#8221; Wednesday, wears three hats in the McCain campaign: as one of its national co-chairs, as the man in charge of Catholics for McCain and as co-chair of the Arizonan&#8217;s Judicial Advisory Committee. (&#8220;The consistent issue is the Supreme Court,&#8221; Brownback says, adding in response to a question that it would &#8220;be a possibility&#8221; that McCain would appoint justices likely to overturn Roe v. Wade.)<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, there is a pattern emerging here among commentators, some from among the Washington punditocracy and some from prominent McCain supporters: For the candidate to connect better with social conservatives, he&#8217;s got to talk more about God.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, McCain&#8217;s theme the past several days has been energy policy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, erstwhile presidential candidate, says his choice for president, Senator McCain, needs to talk more about his personal faith. &#8220;I think he should,&#8221; Brownback tells National Public Radio, &#8220;but not just as a way to warm up to Christian conservatives, but to show his country his heart. 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