First, my comments.
I have an advanced degree and I teach in a college which are typically almost uniformly liberal in outlook and politics.
I was raised in Arkansas during Clinton's terms as governor. I grew up in the South which reflexively voted for Democrats for almost 100 years (mainly because Abraham Lincoln was Republican!).
If anyone should be "the base" of the Democratic party, it should be me.
But after the 1994 AWB, and the Brady Bill, and Brady II, and all the anti-gun measures passed by Dems in the individual states, there is now no way in the deepest pits of burning Hell that I will ever, for the rest of my life, vote for another single Democrat.
It is so strong in me that in local county races, if there are two Democrats running for assistant dog catcher, I refuse to vote in that race so my vote won't go to a Democrat.
That being said, below is the link to the article. Dems are to "talk up" gun rights.
Yeah, I've heard them talk like that before.
hillbilly
Democrats to talk up rights of gun owners
By WILL LESTER
The Associated Press
10/16/2003, 5:19 p.m. CT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Centrist Democrats are urging their candidates — expecially in more conservative states — to talk openly about their support for gun safety laws while telling voters they support the rights of gun owners.
http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1066343044270270.xml
I have an advanced degree and I teach in a college which are typically almost uniformly liberal in outlook and politics.
I was raised in Arkansas during Clinton's terms as governor. I grew up in the South which reflexively voted for Democrats for almost 100 years (mainly because Abraham Lincoln was Republican!).
If anyone should be "the base" of the Democratic party, it should be me.
But after the 1994 AWB, and the Brady Bill, and Brady II, and all the anti-gun measures passed by Dems in the individual states, there is now no way in the deepest pits of burning Hell that I will ever, for the rest of my life, vote for another single Democrat.
It is so strong in me that in local county races, if there are two Democrats running for assistant dog catcher, I refuse to vote in that race so my vote won't go to a Democrat.
That being said, below is the link to the article. Dems are to "talk up" gun rights.
Yeah, I've heard them talk like that before.
hillbilly
Democrats to talk up rights of gun owners
By WILL LESTER
The Associated Press
10/16/2003, 5:19 p.m. CT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Centrist Democrats are urging their candidates — expecially in more conservative states — to talk openly about their support for gun safety laws while telling voters they support the rights of gun owners.
http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1066343044270270.xml