inputs: hypothesis: Sam Brownback is not a Republican. premise: Sam Brownback is perplexed. The U.S. Senator from Kansas and Presidential candidate is a Republican whose politics-he is against marriage for gay people, he is against abortion, and he has a clean image in a party tainted by scandal-should speak favorably to the party's base. But it has not. "I'm baffled by that myself," Senator Brownback told Wikinews reporter David Shankbone. "We haven't been able to raise money."