Sam Brownback for President?

I never would have thought it, but apparently, he's testing the waters. Stranger things have happened. But he would have to pass through a gauntlet that includes front-runner John McCain, Bernard Kerik-tarnished Rudy Giuiliani, Bill Frist, Chuck Hagel, Rick Santorum, and other possible entrants.

How he could take support from Santorum, another hard-right pol who enjoys support from the conservative camp of Christians, is not clear to me. That's what Brownback would have to do because, like Santorum, it's his natural voter, volunteer, and contribution base. But, he is making the obligatory trips to Iowa already. After all, there are only three years before the presidential caucuses there.