Category: Politics

Dave Kopel talks about some inaccuracies the Brady’s have put forth in the ABC News article.  Namely the statement:

“For John McCain to be the political candidate of the NRA shows how things have changed,” Helmke said.

First off, the NRA hasn’t endorsed McCain’s candidacy, and I don’t have any reason to believe that such an endorsement is forthcoming, though nothing would surprise me considering how stunningly bad Barack Wolfgang Amadeus Obama is on this issue.  Secondly, as Dave points out, McCain on the gun issue is really no worse than Bush, who indicated in 2000 that he would sign a renewal of the assault weapons ban.  Bush apparently has also supporting closing the gun show loophole.  McCain at least opposes renewing the assault weapons ban.

That’s basically Uncle’s reaction.  I don’t have much to add myself.

From Bruce:

As if you needed further proof that voting for Obama is a lot like opening a MySpace account. If you’re over the age of 25 and doing either of those things, there’s something wrong with you.

I’ll admit, I have an account, but I don’t use it.

This has already made the rounds, but I wanted to link to Obama’s record on guns that the NRA has put together because each link gives it a bit more Google Lovin’, so when people search on terms involving Barack Moons over Mihami Obama, it comes up with the truth.  I’ll also add this to my highly searched page showing here.

Kevin says if that happens, he’s voting for Bob Barr.  If McCain actually did that, I would do the same at that point.  That would basically be a message from McCain to the Republican base “I don’t need ya!” in which case, fine.  We’ll see in November.

But I think Newsmax is trying to make a non-story here.  “We don’t talk about our vice-presidential possibilities. But he added: ‘I appreciate Mayor Bloomberg enormously and the great job he’s done as mayor.” in D.C. speak is hardly an indication that Bloomberg is being seriously considered.  My money is going to be someone who the base feels good about, but who won’t scare independents and pissed off Hillary supporters.

John McCain has pissed in too many coffee pots in his own party to win with just the party base, so he’s going to have to court independents and Democrats if we’re not going to have to get used to saying “President Obama.”  He’s not going to come out and say “No, I am not considering your Jewish Mayor” when he’s visiting New York City, which is full of Jewish voters who probably liked Hillary, but who might be offended that Obama’s spiritual mentors associate with anti-semites.

Nonetheless, he can’t win without some of his base, and Bloomberg is too far to the left to bring any of the Republican base along for the ride.  If he does pick Bloomberg, I will vote for Bob Barr too, but I feel pretty good that he’s not picking Bloomberg.