The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State …
So far what they are saying:
Three in 10 Pennsylvania Democratic voters were union members or had one in their household, and they favored Clinton over Obama. Four in 10 had a gun owner in the household, and gun-owning households also went mostly for Clinton.
Bitter enough not to vote for you Barry-O! Two fold message here: rural Pennsylvanians hate being condescended to, and AHSA’s endorsement isn’t worth elk piss (I don’t know what Elk piss smells like, but I’m guessing pretty bad.)
This is the first time that I can remember people paying so much attention to my state’s primary. Usually by the time we come around, we’re just reaffirming what the rest of the country has already chosen for us. In terms of primary politics, Pennsylvania has never mattered. I’m glad to hear that the gambling industry has Hilly up by 7-10. I think Obama is pretty much a lock in at this point unless he seriously bombs all the remaining states, which is a possibility. A Hillary win will drag the fight to the convention, and if Hillary does manage to pull it out, it’ll be because of something shady that’ll piss a lot of Democratic faithful off. That makes it less likely I have to worry about either of those two being president.
I’m not angry, nor am I a renter. I’m a homeowner with a mortgage, but these guys are spot on. Here’s their YouTube video:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOaDrM3rMXs[/youtube]
Hat tip to Clayton Cramer.
I continue to not believe we elected this guy Governor of Pennsylvania. I blame suburban voters who think he was a great Mayor of Philadelphia, so he’d surely make a great governor! He was a lucky mayor of Philadelphia. The city, like most other cities, benefited from the .com boom and the nationwide drop in crime in the 90s. But it benefitted to a lesser degree than most other cities, and when the boom turned to bust, Philadelphia’s problems, which Rendell didn’t really fix, came roaring right back, falling on the feet of a corrupt and ineffectual John Street. Now it’s Mike Nutter’s mess, and while I think he’ll certainly be less corrupt than John Street, the jury’s still out on the ineffectual part.
Hat tip to David Bernstein
Ace, who’s been going around interviewing gun bloggers, interviews Bitter.
Sorry Dad, if you ever run for public office, I’m not campaigning for you in Philadelphia’s gay bars.
Over at The Daily Kos. I think this is one thing we can all agree on:
I know liberal couples who give each other pocket size copies of the Constitution for Christmas.
Ask liberals to list their top five complaints about the Bush Administration, and they will invariably say the words “shredding” and “Constitution” in the same sentence. Â They might also add “Fourth Amendment” and “due process.” Â It’s possible they’ll talk about “free speech zones” and “habeus corpus.”
There’s a good chance they will mention, probably in combination with several FCC-prohibited adjectives, the former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
So.
Liberals love the Constitution. Â They especially love the Bill of Rights. Â They love all the Amendments.
Except for one: the Second Amendment.
Read the whole thing. Another mistake a lot of folks on the left make is assuming we gun owners don’t care about this administration’s abuse of other civil liberties, or that we love the former attorney general, rather than thinking he’s as much of a weasel as they do. I have known few gun owners who are entirely happy with the Bush Administration.
Democrats need to understand that the gun vote is not lost to them, and the way to get it back is not through sham endorsements or transparent pandering. They way to get it back is to cease supporting gun control.
So says a University of Sydney study. No doubt this is going to ruin Rebecca Peters‘ day.
In what is perhaps my last act of political apathy, I will not vote in today’s primary. I have long held that I would switch my registration from Independent to Democrat or Republican if either party could give me a choice worth switching over. To date, that has yet to happen. McCain has the Republican nomination locked by now, and the Democrat choices are both so bad I’d have to throw myself off a building if I voted for either of those two. I guess you could say I’m bitter.
But my apathy in regards to political parties will be at an end after this. I have come to realize I am part of the problem. The reason there’s no one worth voting for is because I have not done enough to help get people on the ballot who are worth voting for. I will have to pick sides, and help promote candidates I like. To that end, I think the Republican party is still closer to my own views than those of the Democrats. If small government libertarians are to affect change, we have to work within the political system we have, not the one we wish we had. Next election I’m not going to sit back and let someone else present me with a choice. I’m going to try to make choices, and be heard. I will register Republican, and support the candidates who most believe in getting government off our collective backs.
Well, it was Countertop’s Monday gun porn, but now is my Tuesday gun porn. Cool picture of a rifled barrel from the inside, along with what looks like some type of Thompson Center pistol, along with a a collection of M1 Garands.