Posted on 07/08/2013 2:23:31 AM PDT by servo1969
Gabby Giffords and her still-weightless astronaut husband are like a gun-grabbing Foghat, eternally playing the state fair circuit of American politics. Now they are literally going on tour again, hoping that their audience will forgo the old favorites and welcome a track off their new album.
She’s really just a one-hit wonder hoping to match the airplay of her power ballad “I Suffered a Tragedy So I Have Special Moral Standing (To Advocate Stripping You of Your Fundamental Rights).” The sad truth is that she is the Psy of liberal advocacy, far past her 15 minutes yet valiantly trying to recapture the glory of her gun control Gangnam Style.
Her new tune is apparently entitled “Patriot” because her latest op-ed uses some form of that term four times in about 750 words. I guess it’s now “patriotic” to want to impinge on the constitutional rights of fellow Americans. She doesn’t explain why.
She also warbles about how gun rights come with “responsibilities,” using some version of that term eight times. Except the point of a “right” is that it isn’t contingent upon fulfilling “responsibilities.” It is a foundational element of our social contract and is not subject to infringement by leftists simply because they cloak their oppression with focus group-erriffic labels like “responsibilities.”
If you misuse a gun, the judicial system deals with you afterwards. But you have to misuse a gun before the government gets to limit your rights. Clichés about “responsibility” that sound like they were cribbed from Spiderman movie dialogue are not a meaningful statement of basic Constitutional principles.
Giffords is just the latest leftist trying to speak “Conservative” to us mindless yokels to sucker us into signing on to their petty fascism du jour. You remember the Soros-funded, simpering evangelist woman shilling for the immigration scam whose ad buy on conservative talk radio exceeded even LifeLock’s? They truly think if someone says “Jesus” and leaps off a cliff, we’re going to follow, lemming-like, along behind.
So now the magic words are “patriotic” and “responsibility.” But “patriotism” was déclassé to Giffords’s fellow liberals before President Obama got sworn in, and liberals embracing “responsibility?” Give me a break. Liberalism isn’t a coherent ideology; it’s a collection of lame excuses for the sloth, laziness and lifestyle chaos of Democrat voters.
It’s always amusing to hear a liberal like Giffords babbling about “responsibility.” Perhaps Alec Baldwin can lecture us on tolerance, patience, and fatherhood. Too bad the Democrats’ beloved icon, noted KKK kleagle Robert Byrd, can’t share his insights on racial harmony.
There’s more. Now Giffords and her husband are super-duper believers in the Second Amendment who even have guns themselves! Convenient, since the conservative media caught Astro-Giffords himself buying one of those evil, awful assault rifles he and his wife are trying so hard to keep out of the hands of lesser Americans like you and me.
Liberals really do think we’re stupid.
In fact, we’re apparently so dumb they don’t even need to acknowledge obvious facts. Gifford writes that, “in New Hampshire, 93% of Democrats, 79% of Republicans, 82% of gun owners and 60% of NRA households support background checks.” But of course, we already have background checks – the issue is the wisdom of mindlessly expanding them. That’s like saying 95% of Americans support generic drunk driving laws as a specific argument to drop the DUI limit to .01% (well, except for illegals).
Nor does she bother to address our actual concerns. The Toomey-Manchin bill, like every other jammed-down “bipartisan compromise,” was poorly drafted and filled with loopholes that utterly failed to secure the promises of the sponsors. It purported to prevent a national gun registry but the actual language did not – for some wacky reason, people who take the Second Amendment seriously don’t trust bureaucrats. It also acted to, at best, inconvenience and, at worst, criminalize the innocent behavior of law-abiding citizens.
No, apparently we oppose all background checks because we hate children or something. Maybe we just aren’t “patriotic” or “responsible” enough.
Now, as her “We Love Guns Except When People Like You Have Them” tour begins, look for Giffords’s new tune to not even chart. We’re just not falling for it. And when she realizes she’s getting no traction, look for more whining about how people are being mean to her by actually assessing the form and content of her arguments instead of simply surrendering to her policy preferences because some creep shot her.
Your ideas about how to prevent a tragedy do not become better because you suffered a tragedy. Nor does the fact that you suffered a tragedy insulate you from harsh criticism of the bad ideas you choose to submit into the public debate.
Gabby Giffords has a right to pretend to change her tune on gun control. And we have a right not to listen.
The real victim of leftist wacko Jared Loughner.
How come he ain’t stickin’ his pinky finger in his mouth ?
They will never face the real issue mental healh which also plagues them
That picture looks like a publicity photo for Hollywood’s latest wacky comedy.
Only problem is that these people are serious.
Grabby Giffords
It looks like space did a number on his head.
Jeez, the clueless look on her face, and the prodding companionship of her ‘loving’ husband. Can anybody say “Gravy Train?”
Is she ever really actually ‘speaking’ any of this nonsense, or are they mystical communiques augured from her ‘loving’ husband? Perhaps missives magically autowritten to him?
What a fricking sleazeball if you ask me. Another thing, he sure looks life be berry-berry gooodtohim....couldn’t fit in a spacesuit if he had to.
Good one!
BRAVO!, Mr Schlichter, BRAVO!
The author of this article pulls no punches and has an exceedingly acerbic tone. I like him.
Yes, and the little girl too. I think there may have been others. Does she remember any of them?
IMO she is mentally incapable of the blame being placed on her.
The idiot with his hand up her backside making her lips move is the offender.
He is in it for the financial aspects of it.
Yes. It is well done.
Folks, have a heart, her husband is a money grubbing slut, but she is a woman with less than half her brain. Sure she made an amazing recovery, but still she has had more than the effect of a frontal lobotomy.
justifiable outrage against her political slut husband, a John McCain stooge, is right, but attacking her is a low blow, for she has no idea what she is doing. Look at her picture, she is clue less, a manipulated imbecile.
I wouldn’t walk across the street to piss on him if here on fire, but for Gabby, my heart goes out to her, I feel so sorry for her, at the time she needs her husband the most, he is using her like a two bit inner city pimp.
HALF A BRAIN SHOT OUT BY A DEMONIC SON OF A LEFTARD POLITICALLY CONNECTED RAT IN TEXAS DOES NOT GIVE YOU OR YOU SPACE CASE HUBBY THE RIGHT TO TRY AND STEAL WHAT GOD HAS GIVEN TO US. ALL OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS ARE NATURAL RIGHTS GABBY... THEY WERE GIFTS FROM GOD HIMSELF. NATURAL MIZZ GIFFORDS... JUST LIKE YOU ARE A NATURAL BORN IDIOT AND FOOL.
LLS
I have no heart for those that would destroy my Constitutional Rights... I offer no quarter... a line in the sand is drawn.
LLS
Pic says it all but I thi k they should remove the “Hon.” from her nameplate...
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