Maybe if we just split the country into TWO countries...

Is it too late to have a do-over on the civil war? It's not just the North vs. the South these days, though. It's people like this guy vs. people like me. It's Religious America vs. Non-Religious America. It's Educated America vs. Non-Educated America. It's Puritanical Control Freak Zealots vs. people who are trying to live a life, maybe not a perfect one, but a life nonetheless. Evolution vs. Creationism.

I don't like to discuss politics here, but I found the following article terrifying solely on the fact that someone this "conservative" not only exists, but has enough political backing to run for president. But I take solace in the fact that, well... he's not gonna come close to winning.

He's not, right?

Kansas Senator Announces Bid for Presidency
By RACHEL L. SWARNS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 — Declaring himself a proud conservative before a crowd of cheering supporters waving American flags, Senator Sam Brownback, Republican of Kansas, on Saturday announced his candidacy for president.

Mr. Brownback, an evangelical Protestant turned Roman Catholic and a former Kansas agriculture secretary, said he would focus on reviving faith and families in America; combating abortion, poverty and wasteful government spending; opposing same-sex marriage; and revamping Social Security and the federal tax system.

“The last thing we need in America is to take God out of our public lives and institutions,” Mr. Brownback said during his speech in Topeka, Kan. “We need to embrace our nation’s motto, ‘In God we trust,’ and not be ashamed of it.

“To walk away from the Almighty is to embrace decline for a nation,” he said. “To embrace him leads to renewal, for individuals and for nations.”

Mr. Brownback acknowledged that he would be one of the lesser-known candidates in what is expected to be a crowded field of Republican presidential hopefuls, including Senator John McCain of Arizona and Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York.

With his opposition to abortion, embryonic stem-cell research and same-sex marriage, Mr. Brownback hopes to establish himself as the dominant conservative in the race. The American Conservative Union, which hails him as one of “the best of the best” in the Senate, gave him a 100 percent conservative rating in its most recent survey of Congress.

(the full article appears here in the New York Times)

One Hundred Percent Conservative. Think he has any meth-buying or gay-prostitute-soliciting in his past like another proud conservative we know?