Why we need Hillary in 2008
May I offer the counterpoint?
Hillary Clinton is exactly what gun owners need in 2008.
Well, her and a little backbone. We must face facts that a real conservative is not going to receive the Republican nomination: there will not be a Gingrich, Rice, Tancredo, Paul, etc. ticket in 2008. Gingrich, Rice, et al. are the RINOs because Republicans are no longer the party of small government and big liberty but rather on the federal level have drifted into a big government, theocratical regime. In fact, no major or viable conservative or libertarian party exists. Therefore, the real Republicans like McCain or Guiliani will recieve the nomination.
One must concede, therefore, that the next President of the US will be an anti, whether there is a D or R next to the name. The reason that we should prefer Hillary to a Republican is for the simple fact that the House and Senate Republicans will oppose Hillary and Democrat policies as a matter of course but they will gladly cooperate with a Republican president's initiatives. Since the President will be an anti, these will be anti-gun measures. The rounding error in the 50/50 split may be enough to subdue anti-gun bills. These statement only holds if the Democrats can be reliably expected to vote as antis, which is a reasonable assumption.
I believe, at this point, that a Republican president or a Democrat one will offer up an AWB in the 2008-12 timeframe. The difference is that the D one will be harsher and more uproarious. Though we will suffer, I believe it will force the Supreme Courts to grant certiorari to a Second Amendment case and the justicies will use their self-acquired power to arbitrate its meaning. Now is the best point in history to try the case because the justices will only become more leftist with time. The longer we wait, the less chance that originalist justices like Thomas will even be on the court; you can be certain that high profile leftists are dying to take over the reigns of the country's most powerful and unchallengeable unelected legislative body (yes, they have become a 9-man legislature whose decrees become "settled law").
That being said, as Americans, we have been forced into the unpalatable and paradoxical position of pawning our God-given freedom to own guns as a hedge to stave off the inevitable march of socialism and the mindless tyrrany which accompanies it. We may win back our gun rights under Hillary, but the rest of the country will be destroyed by her socialist programs to "help" lowly and incompetent me. (A Republican president may progress down this path more slowly.) I already lose about 33% of my income to direct income taxes just to turn the existing socialism mill --- how much will I lose when villages are raising the children on government welfare? Where will be the spirits of independence and self-reliance upon which our country was founded now that we suck from the tits of government for our very sustenance? We will have no pride left after we bow down to China or Iran because the next leadership of our country will not adopt a pro-America foreign policy as much as an anti-Bush policy.
Bad times ahead.
