FIRST...I spoke with the Thompson campaign this AM...am told "we are all over this" and a statement will be forthcoming shortly!
1) RINO — Republican In Name Only
2) YES, that is exactly what I would rather do. In the face of a specific enemy, we are excellent ar rallying the troops, focusing on necessities and doing the hard tasks that have to be done to protect our gun rights. With a nightrider like George Bush and the bulk of the Republicans, they are enemies who present as friends, In the 8 years the Republicans were in power (including 6 where they held the House, Senate and Presidency), we gun owners got virtually nothing. Yes, the AWN sunsetted, but that happened only because it required inaction rather than action on the part of Congress obsessed with pork and social issues that bordered on parody. This despite the fact that the gun lobby was acknowledged as the factor that put Bush in office not once, but twice. The problem is that the Republicans have clearly decided that we — that is, the gun culture — are not worth the trouble...they assume they will get out vote anyway, so why bother?
What we are looking at here is a deal between the Bush White House and the most vicious and deeply sworn enemy of our culture, Charles Schumer, to get Bush's Attorney General through the confirmation process. Remember Schumer's "love note" to he AG? If you don't, this is from Schumer's website:
Now we know what George Bush had to do to get that endorsement — sell us out. Bush gets an Attorney General and not a lot of grief (plus heaven knows what else), and Schumer gets the legal groundwork for a new Assault Weapons Ban. The biggest problem for the antigunners with D.C. v. Heller is not the fear of an individual interpretation of the Second, but the fear that the Supremes will allow the D.C. handgun ban to be overturned even if they left in place "reasonable restrictions." Such a ruling would make any other outright ban, including the new Assault Weapons Ban guaranteed by all the Democratic Presidential candidates and supported by Mitt Romney and John McCain on the Republican side, unable to stand a Constitutional challenge.
What Bush has done is offer an alternative interpretation to the Supremes, supported by the "prestige" of the United States government, that will give Charles Schumer and the wingnut side of the Democratic Party the ability to ban any gun they want. The Bush amicus is a HUGE expansion of the government's power to ban guns, impossible to imagine even a month ago. Should the Supremes endorse the government's position, we are in deep, deep trouble.
Michael B
I made certain to quote Mr. Bane's statment because Mr. Bane's statements need to be reiterated and not lost down the thread. Yes, we have a sellout here...I refer to him as "The Traitor Bush".
Before ya'll jump on MB and criticize him about stating that he won't vote unless it's specific candidates.....think about this....I voted for the lesser of evils last time (you to, eh?) and that worked out (sarcasm injected here) really well, didn't it? So I'm thinking this time..."What is the definition of insanity?"...to which I respond "Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
Making sense yet?Hey, we are all on the same side here, but that diversity stuff is not the path we need....I actually believe it would have been better if we had voted for one of the other slugs in the last two presidential elections so that in their stupidity people may have been educated by either of those two idiots (Gore & Kerry) showing their behinds. All we have is a
lying dog sellout now....which gives conservatives a bad name (all the less informed do use him as an example of conservative...not you and I) and sells us out like the chumps we are (I hope the word "were" is correct and not "are")....a good reason to not vote for the idiots from New York or Massachu(hell, I don't even want to spell that state)... that would be Rudy and Mitt. If The Traitor Bush sold us out what do you think McCain will do for us....I think he'll be glad to grease us up and hand us over; heck, if you look at all he's said and done in the past in detail (not rely on someone to tell you what to think) it's pretty clear McCain is in it for McCain.
Well, flame me if you will, but I'd rather flame out as opposed to being given the option to die a slow death from RINO REPUBLICANs. We know where Obama and Hillary are coming from, if the Republicans are going to use us like a whore (don't forget the definition of insanity) I am really contemplating if it would not be better to vote for the gun-grabbing Democrat to insure that the Republican's lose. I believe it would be better to immediately confront outright lunacy and intolerance and fight the good fight while we still have some sanity in the public with people aroused rather than face "death" from a thousand cuts. Each year that goes by it seems there are more and more of them and less and less of us....better now than when it's harder later.
You guys, hey...please don't dig your heals in yet on who to support. Take a breath...remember...breath, relax, aim & squeeze. Someone here diss'ed Huckabee on taxes...do you know he wants to replace income tax with a sales tax....I'm in on that. If ya'll think among these candidates there is something more important than the 2nd Ammendment just don't forget two things 1) the 2nd Ammendment guarantees the Constitution and 2) when they come to pick up your guns how much in blood and $'s will that cost you. And I guarantee, when they come to pick up your guns it won't be a nice thing and that it's only going to be the start.
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