Author Topic: Pre-Election Democrat Gun Worries? (Read 1687 times)

Charon · « **Reply #75 on:** February 22, 2007, 11:20:35 AM »

Around here, my Republican Congressman is rated a solid F by the NRA. A full RINO. On social issues he is perhaps more in line with my views (being moderate without being a full blown "handout" progressive) but not that distinct from the local democrats. He also playes up the fiscal conservative/foreign policy conservative Republican talking points, but in action he's a Neocon liberal in these areas.

So... Last election I voted for the Democrat. No real difference at all where my key issues are concerend (and his voting pattern shows he walks the talk), and as long as he's in office no option to get a countering viewpoint. There certainly is none from a Cook County Democrat, so why not get this RINO out and hope the next Republican has a different perspective -- at least an abstain type vs an active supporter of the Daley gun ban crowd.

Charon

Maverick · « **Reply #76 on:** February 22, 2007, 11:24:43 AM »

Charon,

If you could get the daley pile o' crap out of office there you'd have a better chance of getting someone new to run. As long as daley has his empire he controls pretty much everything. Capone woulda been proud of him.

Charon · « **Reply #77 on:** February 22, 2007, 02:48:37 PM »

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If you could get the daley pile o' crap out of office there you'd have a better chance of getting someone new to run. As long as daley has his empire he controls pretty much everything. Capone woulda been proud of him.

The only way to get Daley out is in handcuffs, or the day he has a heart attack in office like his father. Corruption and all, Chicagoians think he makes "the City Work." They don't stop to consider that someone else could make the city work even better with all their tax dollars being put to good use vs the 20 percent that goes to the crony skim. And, change is hard and Daley is the known element.

The real pisser is that he's not just satisfied with the city, but he want's to rule the state with his policies using the Democrat machine to elect his type of candidates in the burbs and other counties. Since he has chicago/cook locked up, he has surplus resources to do just that. Of course, I have no vote (living outside of the city) that could influence him in return. The northern burbs are like-minded anyway. I've been looking at property on the Wisconsin Border lately inthe Kenosha area. I may check out the Valpo area in Indiana too.

Charon

Shuckins · « **Reply #78 on:** February 22, 2007, 05:01:31 PM »

For those on the left who gleefully anticipate Democratic victory in the election of 2008, and the subsequent rush by that leftist administration to pass new Brady Bills had best remember what happened under similar circumstances in the congressional election of 1994.

Having strong-armed the Brady Bill through Congress, against the advice of some of his closest advisers, who felt that it could prove disastrous for Democratic incumbents up for reelection in conservative states, Clinton signed it into law.

Those Democratic congressmen who had voted for it were targeted by the NRA and other conservative groups for defeat. That campaign was tremendously successful. For the first time in four decades, the Democrats yielded control of the House to the Republicans....and Clinton effectively became a lame duck. His political agenda changed drastically after his party became the party of the not-so-loyal opposition.

Any attempt to repeat the Brady Bill triumph by the Democrats would almost certainly yield similar results.