OK Folks Time To Cowboy Up...

[bogie]

Slingsta, we are so damn divided that it's pitiful... Some guy from Democratic Underground logs on, and posts that he doesn't wanna vote for ANY republican, and in fact, he'd rather vote for Schumer or Feinstein, because Bush MIGHT have had to sign a renewal of the AWB, and a dozen gunnies rush to agree... Because, after all, if someone is not 100% on your side, you should just vote completely against your side...

Doesn't make a lick of sense to me.

 

[Leanwolf]

NEMATOCYST 870 - "You should all try to answer this question.

In 3036, do you really think the 2008 elections will matter?"


Yes, actually it will. This election will put Hillary Clinton in the White House in Jan., 2009.

She will still be there in the Oval Office in 3036, albeit stuffed like her greatest Hero of the State, V.I. Lenin, automatedly running the country through prerecorded and computerized animation and voice chips.

If something happens to her "stuffing," no matter, as the Paleolibs will still have Bill stuffed and standing by in a closet, just waiting.

L.W.

 

[hso]

This Republican/Democrat bias is absurd. We make a mistake when we pick parties instead of OUR issue.

I plan on taking the money that I immediately thought I'd spend on mags and guns and ammo and instead I'm going to spend it on ... ballots.

I intend to let a pro-RKBA politician know that I've got $1,000 for his war chest if he'll protect my individual 2nd ammendment rights. I don't care what else he does as long as he commits to that. If he keeps that promise over the next 2 years he get's another $2,000 for his war chest.

Multiply that by every dedicated 2A advocate and it's enough money to support them in the face of party waffeling.

 

[Stauble]

i really dont think bush would sign anti-gun legislation. he didnt get an A from the NRA for nothin. yes i know what he said in the 2004 campaign but he didnt push too hard for it now did he.

my question to you all is how fa do we let them go before we take action, and im not talkin bout votin or writin letters

 

[Huddog]

Personally I am more concerned about the fear mongers driving up the price of high caps and ammo than I am of the Democrats getting another weapons ban through. And another thing...did anyone else happen to notice that since it was such a "great" day for the Democrats there have been no complaints about ballot or voting machine irregularities or any other election scandal. Just a thought.

 

[LightningJoe]

The Republican party has taken a serious beating. How it responds will be important. This is half-time and our team spent the first half getting its ass kicked.

Here's the mistake that cost the Republicans their legislative majorities: They assumed that all people love freedom or some such nonsense and that the right way to deal with Middle-Eastern loonies was to kick off a democratic revolution that would sweep the region and turn the whole place into Scandinavia or at least South America. This hypothesis has been convincingly disproven. The right way to deal with the loonies is to kill them, blow up their stuff, and so disrupt their ability to operate that they can't afford a plane ticket.

Elijah was a prophet of God. He fought the devotees of Baal. He employed a strategy that we can borrow. He locked the Baal worshippers in their temple and set fire to it.

The loonies will keep fighting. The battle we've taken to them over the past five years will have an effect for some years to come. But within a generation, they'll be back. Stay away from Manhattan. That's probably where it will happen. When it does, we'll be best served by the Elijah strategy: Lock them in and burn the place down.

 

[Texfire]

Call me crazy, but I think this is an opportunity for the centrists in both parties to realize that extreme agendas at the expense of bipartisanship is bad for business. Maybe after they come to that realization then they can admit that the 2nd Amendment isn't a political football and get to work on real issues.

As far as who has power I don't really care which party it is as long as they don't have all the power. Evenly divided to the point of ineffectiveness is the safest state. Extreme agendas aren't viable in that environment and the only legislation that gets passed is that which is either acceptable to both parties or urgent enough to make them drop politics as usual.

So communicate to your elected representatives, no matter what party they are currently a member of, that you believe that the right to keep and bear arms is not a political "issue" but a right. Gun rights are not a Democratic issue, nor is it a Republican issue, it's an American issue. Keep your hands out of my gun safe, my home and my wallet and we'll get along alright. Meddle and we'll be on different sides when the next election cycle comes along.

Tex

 

[Tsonda]

libertarian here

I am used to not winning elections.

 

[ArfinGreebly]

Ballots

by hso
I intend to let a pro-RKBA politician know that I've got $1,000 for his war chest if he'll protect my individual 2nd ammendment rights. I don't care what else he does as long as he commits to that. If he keeps that promise over the next 2 years he get's another $2,000 for his war chest.

Nice.

Wish I'd thought of that.

That's quite a carrot. All you have to do is get another 10,000 carrots together in one place.

I'm not sure what the "stick" would be . . . perhaps making it known that his promise and the contributions of all those to whom he's made that promise should be considered part of the public record. Failure to keep the promise results in removal of all future carrots and publication of the betrayal.

Definitely food for thought, hso.

 

[AStone]

Those of us who have been hanging around THR for a while
recognize that Hso is a clear-thinking, cut-to-the-chase kind of guy.

We respect him for that.

Yeah, I'll "cowboy up" $1000 for that cause.

Nem

 

[mosttoyswins]

I've pretty much decided that I'll be buying an AR lower and a few hi caps for my CZ75 before the end of the year. Nationally, I don't think we're in much trouble, but we sure as hell are in my state

I think we have the next 2 years to buy anything we want. If the dems win the presidency in '08, then we may have some problems. IMVHO.

With that said, I will also be buying AR's and hi-caps over the next 2 years.

I would rather have them and have nothing happen, then to have a AR/hicap ban happen and NOT have them.

May be a little paranoid but I call it being prepared for the worst.