Posted on 09/12/2013 1:01:21 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The results of Tuesday’s recall elections in Colorado are unambiguous. Two Democratic state senators, one of them the sitting president of the Colorado Senate, faced recall elections. State Sen. John Morse and State Sen. Angela Giron, both Democrats, had the full support of Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns as well as their state party and the Democratic National Committee.
They were both recalled last night. Tossed from office. They lost their seats, and the Republicans nearly took control of the Colorado Senate. One issue drove the entire recall: guns. In Giron’s case, returns reveal that thousands of Democrats even voted to recall her.
Both Morse and Giron voted to curb Second Amendment rights in the state of Colorado at the behest of the national Democrats and Bloomberg’s anti-gun group. Specifically, they voted to limit magazine capacity, and they voted to mandate background checks on private gun sales between individuals. Now they’re both out of office.
Colorado is a purple state trending blue largely due to the influx of Californians moving there. But given last night’s result, a political party in a purple or red state would have to be nuts to back a candidate that openly supports any new restrictions on the Second Amendment, right? It’s folly.
Well, the Texas Democratic Party may be nuts.
The Texas Democrats of “white primary” infamy are lining up behind state Sen. Wendy Davis of Fort Worth as she mulls a run for governor. Texas has not elected a Democrat governor since 1990, and has not elected any Democrat to any statewide office in a generation. One would think that the Democrats in Texas would take a lesson from its decades of defeat and moderate toward the middle. That doesn’t seem to be in the cards.
Davis has become a national name thanks to her pink-shoed filibuster of a bipartisan abortion law that a majority of Texans support. The media made her a national darling among themselves, but she lost the fight and her protest devolved into madness and anarchy by the end of it. She is now known chiefly for that single unsuccessful effort, which will galvanize pro-life forces against her if she runs statewide. Coupled with the D after her name, then, Davis already has a couple of strikes against her. State Sen. Wendy Davis (D-Planned Parenthood) has a certain ring to it, in deep red Texas.
Now, it turns out that Davis wants to restrict gun shows across the state of Texas.
Jay Root at the Texas Tribune highlights an initiative that Davis undertook when she was on the Fort Worth City Council. Fort Worth, as in Cowtown, the home of the Stockyards and the city “where the west begins.” Davis tried, unsuccessfully, to impose new regulations at gun shows held in city-owned venues back in 2000. She also tried to force individuals who sell firearms at gun shows to perform background checks on their buyers.
We’re not talking about licensed gun dealers who make their living selling firearms, who are already required to perform background checks on gun purchasers. We’re talking about the individual who wants to sell a gun to another individual. The former is uncontroversial; the latter puts the federal government into private citizens’ business and opens up the possibility of a national gun registry being created. Davis attacked the so-called “gun show loophole,” which has been a favorite boogeyman of the gun-grabbing left for decades.
She failed. But Root reports that if she was elected governor, she would sign such restrictions into law, in Texas.
In a recent interview, Davis didn’t back down from her position on gun shows, though she acknowledged it’s not a politically popular one. She said that if she were governor, she would leave the issue to the will of the Legislature but would happily sign gun show regulations into law.
“I haven’t pursued it as a senator because I know it’s like spitting in the wind,” she said. “But I still believe it’s the right thing. And if I were governor and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.”
The second part of Davis’ anti-gun effort was to kick gun shows off city-owned property, according to a July 19, 2000 story that appeared in the Dallas Morning News. That would turn city-owned convention centers into tools of politics, which they were never intended to be. Given that the Second Amendment is written right into the Constitution, it would also have put Fort Worth in the position of militating against its own citizens’ civil rights. Davis would do the same across the whole state. Of Texas.
The city of Austin tried a similar move this year, and not only failed, it earned the very public ire of Attorney General Greg Abbott. He promised Austin it would face a “double-barreled lawsuit” if it proceeded. The bluest city in Texas quickly backed down.
Wendy Davis could be sitting on three strikes before she even really comes up to bat in the governor’s race. She will attempt to mitigate the damage by pointing out that she owns a gun and that she voted for a law that allows students to carry guns in their vehicles on college campuses. Owning a gun is nearly mandatory in Texas, and that single vote regarding guns on campuses probably won’t carry as much weight as Davis’ longstanding double-barreled assault on gun shows. It wasn’t as though Davis was taking a brave stand on that campus bill: It passed the Texas Senate 27-4.
Attorney General Abbott is now the front-runner in the GOP primary in the Texas governor’s race. Should Davis win the Democratic primary, she is likely to face Abbott in the general election. It’s safe to say that Davis’ record of trying to kick gun shows off city property, and mandating background checks for every single gun purchase in the entire state of Texas, will come up. Often.
Democrats will probably respond with some variation on “Well, this just makes me like her more!”
That goes a long way to explaining why Democrats don’t win anything in Texas.
Gun control? I thought Wendy Davis was the abortion enthusiast?
She’s a Democrat, they love abortion, gun-grabbing, affirmative action, unilateral disarmament, big government fascism and welfare.
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She’s a Democrat, they love abortion, gun-grabbing, affirmative action, unilateral disarmament, big government fascism and welfare.
BINGO!
Just the kind of thing that would go over big in San Fransicko.
This Davis is a moron.
In many ways, Texas is the last bastion of hope for conservative Americans; if the Texans lose their minds, there’s no hope for the rest of us.
Evidently she knows how to pick the wrong side of more than one issue at a time.
How can any Democrat run as pro-abortion and anti-gun and expect to win state-wide office in the South? Some gerrymandered congressional district in Atlanta, Houston or Memphis? Sure. But state-wide office?
Adios! Get a real job! Hopefully other pols will note this and be reminded of whom they work for.
Once the Democratic bacteria infects and destroys one area, it moves to another to destroy.
We need to find a cure.
By God, I will not go down with a pink tennis shoe on my neck!
She’s a Democrat, they love abortion, gun-grabbing, affirmative action, unilateral disarmament, big government fascism and welfare.
In New York, New Jersey, or the People's Republic of California, maybe; in Texas, she's political road kill.
Don’t you have shirts to iron, Wendy? It’s a damn shame you’re even allowed to vote.
A Democrat won the Texas governorship in 1990 (Ann “Ma” Richards) only because her opponent made an incredibly stupid statement about rape. She was later defeated by the `hated’ George W. Bush.
Running against gun ownership in Texas just doesn’t cut it.
Sounds like Wendy Davis’ nightmare would be a fetus that can defend itself.
Over on the left they are pretty schizophrenic about this. Of course most are into controlling the populace; but there are quite a few comments on leftist sites about how many Democrats voted for the recall also. The point seems to be that they feel these laws were rushed through without really getting input from the electorate and people felt “run over”.
Someone needs to explain to Wendy that “Assault Weapons” are excellent postpartum abortion tools.
Her fifteen minutes of fame were a quarter of an hour too much.
It didn’t go over so well in Colorado so....Good luck with that in Texas.
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