Sam Brownback for President?

Freerepublic.com held a poll that found that Freepers prefer the presidential candidates in this order:

Mitt Romney 34.5%
Ron Paul 27.0%
Duncan Hunter 17.4%
Rudy Giuliani 8.0%
Tom Tancredo 4.2%
Mike Huckabee 2.3%
John McCain 2.3%
Tommy Thompson 1.9%
Jim Gilmore 1.3%
Sam Brownback 1.2%

Several of these candidates are somewhat new to me. Duncan Hunter is a Congressman from California and Sam Brownback is a Senator from Kansas. I looked at the opinions of the Club for Growth , which says the following:

John McCain: "his overall record is tainted by a marked antipathy towards the free market and individual freedom."

Mike Huckabee: "his ten-year economic-policy record as the governor of Arkansas is mixed, at best. His history includes numerous tax hikes, ballooning government spending, and increased regulation."

Sam Brownback: "Over his year and a half in the House of Representatives and his ten years in the U.S. Senate, Senator Brownback has proven himself to be, on balance, a strong defender of limited government and pro-growth policies. On taxes, Social Security reform, school choice, and tort reform, Senator Brownback has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to fighting for American taxpayers. His record on trade, political speech, and government regulation of business is generally pro-freedom, with a few exceptions."

I do not trust Mitt Romney for a couple of reasons that I have previously blogged. After George Bush, Mike Bloomberg and Jeff Skilling, are Americans ready to be suckered by yet another Harvard Business School grad who uses free market rhetoric without the slightest grasp of the underlying principles or the slightest intention to do anything other than practice crony capitalism? Once deceived, shame on you. Twice deceived, shame on me. Three times deceived, well, I'll call you a chump.

I don't know much about the candidates but let's take a look at Sam Brownback. His website demonstrates:

-a thoughtful, informed perspective on Iraq
-opposition to abortion
-opposition to gay marriage

With the Club for Growth's endorsement on economic issues, I'm having trouble grasping why he only gets 1.2% on the Freerepublic poll. I'm not a political expert, but given Romney's limp economic credentials and Ron Paul's crackpot position that the Iraqi War is a plot by "special interests" ("Support for the war came from various special interests that had agitated for an invasion of Iraq since 1998.") I'm having trouble understanding why Brownback isn't getting more prominence.