It is not suitable for publication in this forum so I won't post the wording nor do I want anyone else to...
BUT...
everyone who remembers Hamilton Jorden's quote about the NRA (and gunowners) when Jimmy Carter was elected, raise your hand...
I anticipate the current democratic leadership has a long memory regarding our support of their opponents. Time to donate to build the NRA's war chest.
Democrats - Are we going to loose our 2A rights now?
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Good time to consider the life membership. Looks like I'l lcome out ahead. :)SRVA wrote:It is not suitable for publication in this forum so I won't post the wording nor do I want anyone else to...
BUT...
everyone who remembers Hamilton Jorden's quote about the NRA (and gunowners) when Jimmy Carter was elected, raise your hand...
I anticipate the current democratic leadership has a long memory regarding our support of their opponents. Time to donate to build the NRA's war chest.
Here's an interesting blurb by one blogger about what he expects from the Democrats and Dubya. I hope he's wrong, but who knows?
"Never send a man where you can send a bullet." - Winston Churchill in A Roving Commission
That 'blurb' by the blogger is about as far out in outer space as the old TV series 'Twilight Zone". That's so wild, it even tops what I refer to as the 'redneck reaction' usually seen on gun discussion boards when discussing anything political in nature.MikeJ wrote:Here's an interesting blurb by one blogger about what he expects from the Democrats and Dubya. I hope he's wrong, but who knows?
I predict the Democrats are going to be very easy to get along with in the next two years. They have a lot to prove to the American people before the next elections and they are not going to take on the issue of gun control again. In order to show the citizens that they actually mean they want to work in a bi-partisan atmosphere, they will work with Republicans to get meaningful legislation passed that will benefit the country. They have to be able to show something concrete in '08 to have a chance in those elections because they had nothing concrete during the mid term elections. To date, they have still not discussed their mandate, or platform..... just like they have not in the last several years. They did not win this election, the Republicans handed it to them because of recent events and a growing lack of faith by the majority of the American people. In order to repeat their success in '08, they have to show the public something.... words alone won't do it the next time around because now the voters are actually expecting something to change in Washington.
I also believe the same thing about the Republicans. They also have a lot to prove in the next two years. To reinstill faith in the majority of American voters, the Republican party will be doing a lot of things differently as they address what went wrong during the mid term elections and try to get things going down a different track before the '08 elections.
Because BOTH parties have a lot to prove, I think 'politics as usual' will be 'politics changing daily' for the next couple of years. It should be very interesting to follow.
My, what short memories we have.
It was a mere dozen years ago that the Republicans made their first solid showing in the South since Reconstruction. It took 1996 and 1998 to really tie things up.
The Republican alliance with the White Southern Male has always been uneasy. There are a great many social and traditional conservatives who thought that "Democrat" was stamped on the birth certificate, and many of those who voted Republican in 1994 in reaction to Slick Willy, have been just waiting since then to vote for a good homegrown Southern conservative Democrat, pro-gun and anti-abortion and anti-Washington.
The irony is that Chuck Schumer, notoriously hard-left and anti-gun, chaired the effort and placed conservative Democrats into key races against "moderate" Republicans. Conservative Southern "Reagan Democrats" have been anxiously waiting for a chance to vote for "one of us" for more than a decade, and a New York liberal delivered just what they'd been waiting for.
Texas was an exception, and held onto most Republican candidates. In the rest of the conservative South (along with the rest of the country), straight tickets ruled the day.
The pendulum has swung. If the Democrats betray those who elected them and start pandering to the opposition (as the Republicans have done since 1996), then they'll return to the minority soon enough.
Kevin
It was a mere dozen years ago that the Republicans made their first solid showing in the South since Reconstruction. It took 1996 and 1998 to really tie things up.
The Republican alliance with the White Southern Male has always been uneasy. There are a great many social and traditional conservatives who thought that "Democrat" was stamped on the birth certificate, and many of those who voted Republican in 1994 in reaction to Slick Willy, have been just waiting since then to vote for a good homegrown Southern conservative Democrat, pro-gun and anti-abortion and anti-Washington.
The irony is that Chuck Schumer, notoriously hard-left and anti-gun, chaired the effort and placed conservative Democrats into key races against "moderate" Republicans. Conservative Southern "Reagan Democrats" have been anxiously waiting for a chance to vote for "one of us" for more than a decade, and a New York liberal delivered just what they'd been waiting for.
Texas was an exception, and held onto most Republican candidates. In the rest of the conservative South (along with the rest of the country), straight tickets ruled the day.
The pendulum has swung. If the Democrats betray those who elected them and start pandering to the opposition (as the Republicans have done since 1996), then they'll return to the minority soon enough.
Kevin
I suppose that if you're into a renewed AWB and de facto registration of all your firearms (see the party platform), then the Dems will be easy to get along with. In any case the Democrats don't condescend to prove things to us; they prefer to tell us how to live, what to think, and with whom we may associate.DaveT wrote:I predict the Democrats are going to be very easy to get along with in the next two years. They have a lot to prove to the American people before the next elections and they are not going to take on the issue of gun control again.
"Never send a man where you can send a bullet." - Winston Churchill in A Roving Commission
Before the election I was not worried, but now, I am beginning to worry.
Being the liberal contankerous cuss I am, I listen to a lot of liberal talk radio. One liberal talking head has already started bringing up the gun control talk, after an obvious silence. Then, I get the following forwarded to me from another liberal acquantance. This was from Michael Moore's e-mail list, and I won't infect your minds with the whole thing, but this bit caught me:
Being the liberal contankerous cuss I am, I listen to a lot of liberal talk radio. One liberal talking head has already started bringing up the gun control talk, after an obvious silence. Then, I get the following forwarded to me from another liberal acquantance. This was from Michael Moore's e-mail list, and I won't infect your minds with the whole thing, but this bit caught me:
I think the tinfoil hatters might have had something here. I'm glad I just got my AR-15Michael Moore (ugh) wrote: We will not take away your hunting guns. If you need an automatic weapon or a handgun to kill a bird or a deer, then you really aren't much of a hunter and you should, perhaps, pick up another sport. We will make our streets and schools as free as we can from these weapons and we will protect your children just as we would protect ours.
.השואה... לעולם לא עוד
Holocaust... Never Again.
Some people create their own storms and get upset when it rains.
--anonymous
Holocaust... Never Again.
Some people create their own storms and get upset when it rains.
--anonymous
Good post. I agree 100%.KBCraig wrote:My, what short memories we have.
It was a mere dozen years ago that the Republicans made their first solid showing in the South since Reconstruction. It took 1996 and 1998 to really tie things up.
The Republican alliance with the White Southern Male has always been uneasy. There are a great many social and traditional conservatives who thought that "Democrat" was stamped on the birth certificate, and many of those who voted Republican in 1994 in reaction to Slick Willy, have been just waiting since then to vote for a good homegrown Southern conservative Democrat, pro-gun and anti-abortion and anti-Washington.
The irony is that Chuck Schumer, notoriously hard-left and anti-gun, chaired the effort and placed conservative Democrats into key races against "moderate" Republicans. Conservative Southern "Reagan Democrats" have been anxiously waiting for a chance to vote for "one of us" for more than a decade, and a New York liberal delivered just what they'd been waiting for.
Texas was an exception, and held onto most Republican candidates. In the rest of the conservative South (along with the rest of the country), straight tickets ruled the day.
The pendulum has swung. If the Democrats betray those who elected them and start pandering to the opposition (as the Republicans have done since 1996), then they'll return to the minority soon enough.
Kevin