After all, to gradually grow in both size and ability is the natural tendency of government, is it not?
Posted on 01/15/2008 11:52:32 AM PST by SJackson
Bush’s thinking on this is beyond me, and his stance on this issue will not help the GOP in November.
Not at all - It is outright eerie.
I don’t think it will hurt the GOP, the candidates will have to stand on their own. I agree his stance is mystifying, as have been many of his actions.
Staying away, or apart from, the race because of perceived voter displeasure will not help the eventual candidate any more than Clinton’s absence helped Gore.
If the so called candidates continue to ignore gun owners,
they will pay the price at voting time.
Fred is the only one courting the gun owners.
Thats why he will win SC.
The silence is
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After all, to gradually grow in both size and ability is the natural tendency of government, is it not?
You're right, that would be nice, but I don't see that as being on GWB's agenda. Even if he doesn't care, he should have supported the 2nd amendment as a fundamental right on the merits.
Good piece, thanks for posting. This is one of the main reasons I don’t think Huckabee wouldn’t be quite as bad as most freepers make him out to be.
The Huckster is surprisingly pro-gun. He’s a complete nutter on government socialist spending though. Have you seen his health care stuff? May as well make Hillary Care a GOP plank if we elect him.
Which is patently absurd on its face. It is specifically mentioned in the Constitution, how can it be anything other than a fundamental right?
Nothing would give me greater pleasure than Thompson coming in at least 2nd in SC, but I doubt he will make 3rd.
“My point is that the President still has every opportunity to do things to help in 08”
You must not have heard about the Real ID Act’s (or as I call it, The Democrat Politician Full Employment Act), partial implementation on May 11.
As of May 11, if your State doesn’t agree to a national driver’s license, you will not be able to get onto an airplane or enter a Federal building without your passport. The resulting fury will guarantee no Republican can get elected to anything.
Put the 2nd Amendment position on top of the Real Id Act and what other interpretation can you get: The President is doing everything he can to get a Democrat elected to every office from President to Dog Catcher.
The GOP has been blowing smoke with all their talk about smaller, less intrusive government. They are at least as bad as the dims.
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”
Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1788. ME 7:37
Anyone else think we’ve yielded more than enough??
He can’t get re-elected so now he doesn’t care what his numbers look like. He has an agenda and he doesn’t care who he tramples to accomplish it. We knew several years ago that his support for the 2nd Amendment was only superficial.
Now we see that he believes that the government can restrict your RKBA rights if it can dream up a good enough reason. And who decides what reason is good enough? Why, the government, of course!
If Fred publicly calls on the President to withdraw this brief, then he'll score big points with voters. As an attorney, he can explain well why this brief is actually very anti-2nd Amendment.
Further, it is possible that it'll actually get done - I'm not sure that this was even on Bush's radar. It sounds suspiciously like some career gov't lawyer's way of screwing individual rights in a fait accompli. Bush might decide to withdraw the brief if he knows about it, comes under pressure from Republican candidates, and if the NRA actually emails its members and asks them to melt the White House phone lines. Of course, I'm not holding my breath - Bush isn't exactly a friend of the 2nd.
The candidates should speak out as if this were a modern-day Brown v BOE or Plessy v Ferguson.
The position taken by the Justice Department is that repulsive.
Yep, fundamental rights generally get "incorporated" against state government infringement via the "due process" clause of the 14th amendment. Which is utter rubbish, the 14th's Privileges and Immunities Clause already did that for all of the rights protected against federal infringement by the Constitution, including the first 8 (or 9) amendments.
I'll bet even Claire thinks it's just about time.
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