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To: Shooter 2.5
If the Republicans won't support our basic rights when they are the clear majority party, then their rhetoric is just empty talk. The argument that a vote for anyone but the Republicans is a tacit vote for the Democrats is bogus. Bush has been tacking so much to the center that he is forgetting his base. Beyond a certain point I don't care if he wins or not. In fact, it would be justice to see a party that forgets its base to get such a wakeup call. Not saying I'm there yet, but the AWB is a trigger point for me.
21 posted on 01/25/2004 12:32:32 PM PST by kcar (A tax slave who feels like an enabler.)
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To: kcar
We don't have a clear majority yet. We have the dems voting to disarm the American People and we have a few, and I repeat, a very few Republicans who are anti-gun. Check the CCW debates if you don't believe me. That means we don't have a clear majority of Pro-gun legislators.

Bush said it before the election when there was a point when if he didn't, he might not have been elected. The Republicans are doing what they can to sunset it. Just like they're trying to do with the CCW laws.

The people who say they won't vote for Bush if he signs the bill probably never voted for him in the first place. They couldn't have been that active for their Second Amendment Rights or they would have known what he said and when he said it.

If anyone wants to threaten the Republicans now while the AWB is being discussed, be my guest. Let's hold their feet to the fire but if Bush is forced to sign it because the gun owners were too lazy to send a postcard, we still have to vote for him. He's still the lesser of two evils.
24 posted on 01/25/2004 1:20:23 PM PST by Shooter 2.5 (Don't punch holes in the lifeboat)
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To: kcar
And of course removing your support for the war on terroism.
75 posted on 01/27/2004 1:13:53 PM PST by cinFLA
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