Brownback addresses Jewish GOPers
Posted: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 11:23 AM by Mark Murray
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From NBC's Lauren Appelbaum
Brownback was the first candidate to address the Republican Jewish Coalition's Presidential Forum. He succeeded in capturing the audience's attention, offering up laugh lines throughout his speech. Brownback called for rebuilding family, reviving culture, and sustaining the economy by bringing about energy security and offering an optional alternative flat tax.
He indirectly addressed Iran. "When
Ahmadinejad talks about a world without Israel and the United States, I think we have to take him seriously," Brownback told about 400 people. "We have to use anything possible to stop nuclear weapons." When he was later asked a question about working with
Sarkozy, Brownback said he would work with him "on tough situations, particularly Iran, to pull together a global coalition."
His message of a strong family with both a mom and a dad resonated with the Jewish Republicans. He also made an indirect reference to Hillary Clinton. "We can still debate if it takes a family or a village," Brownback said, "but it takes a lot of responsible adults per child."
Brownback called Israel "one of the key allies of the United States in a tough region of the world" and pledged he would work to make Jerusalem "the undivided capital."