Massachusetts Conservatives Back Brownback Over Romney

(Hat tip: Dom Bettinelli)

Kathryn Jean Lopez writes at National Review Online:

With still twelve months until the first presidential primary, Kansas senator Sam Brownback hit former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney close to home earlier this week — and where it could hurt.

In a press release Monday, the Brownback Exploratory Committee announced he has the support of “key social conservative leaders in Massachusetts,” mostly pro-life activists. Eschewing subtlety, the “Brownback for President” release said that these supporters have “pledged their help in educating social conservatives around the country that Senator Brownback is the true choice for those who care about the right to life and the sanctity of marriage”

The early Republican face-off follows weeks of questions about Gov. Romney’s past statements on abortion and gay issues.

Some of these early endorsers of Brownback were undoubtedly casting a clear anti-Romney vote by signing up with Brownback. Carol McKinley, founder of Faithful Voice, a Catholic group, runs an anti-Romney website. Her “Prolife Mitt Romney Watch” directs readers to, among other things, the anti-Romney hub on the Right, MassResistance. This group, while laying out inconsistencies in his record accuses Romney of being the “father of gay marriage” for refusing to ignore the supreme judicial court of Massachusetts’s ruling legalizing gay marriage. Their assessment has been making the conservative-movement rounds since mid-November.

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