The GOP and NRA in a Dupe-A-Thon
The NRA and the GOP deserve one another. Both groups seek to dupe a small fringe of extremists.
Recently, we had the GOP candidates for President attempt to pander to the NRA. And what a spectacle it was.
Rudy G. claims he changed his mind about gun control after 9/11. Yeah, that makes sense–I suppose he thinks New Yorkers could have shot at the airliners about to strike the WTC with their handguns. Rudy once called the NRA “extremists” but apparently is willing now to say anything to rescue a campaign that’s in a death spiral.
Fred Thompson, whom I believed was terminally lazy but may actually be senile, has been all over the map on gun control. He is now reduced to showing up at gun show with his trophy wife leading him about as they peruse tables filled with The Turner Diaries.
Mitt Romney. “Varmint hunter.” Hahahahaha.
John McCain has taken positions antithetical to the NRA, including bans on certain handguns, assault weapons, closing the gun show loophole and the like. But that doesn’t stop him from pandering to the NRA.
The question is why these candidates do so. The answer is simple: the GOP field is so poor, a candidate needs a vote wherever he can find it. After all, this is a GOP field where “none of the above” won a GOP straw poll in Iowa. Gunloons and the NRA used to tout that their support won elections–what happened? After all, Bush gave the NRA carte blanche–where is that NRA influence?
“Gunloons and the NRA used to tout that their support won elections”
Last person I knew who actually said that, was none other than Bill “Slick Willie” Clinton.
Comment by theirritablearchitect — September 25, 2007 @ 12:37 pm
You mean the same Bill Clinton who was elected twice? The same one who could win today if he ran?
Comment by Administrator — September 25, 2007 @ 5:28 pm