[Mulder]

Why does Bush support this ban?

Does he not believe in individual Rights?

Or is he making a decision based solely on 'political' calculations, without regard to the Constitution?

[newgeezer]

Campaign Finance Reform, anyone?

[dead]

Or is he making a decision based solely on 'political' calculations, without regard to the Constitution?

Yes he is. This support springs not from some core belief, but from the fact that Bush and his advisors think that fighting this law will cost him votes from the brain-dead middle.

I'm sure Rove has stated basically, "You won the war in Iraq, you fight for lower taxes (not very successfully), and you wear a cowboy hat. The right wing will be pissed at you, but they'll still vote for you anyway. Where else are they gonna go?"

And, unfortunately, Rove's right. Where else are we gonna go?

[FairOpinion]

Flashback:

May 7, 2001:

Bush Backs Individual’s Right to Guns
Administration Reverses 2nd Amendment Interpretation
The Associated Press

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/guns_020507.html


W A S H I N G T O N, May 7 — The Bush administration has told the Supreme Court for the first time that it believes the Constitution protects an individual's right to possess guns, reversing the government's longstanding interpretation of the Second Amendment.

The current position of the United States ... is that the Second Amendment more broadly protects the rights of individuals, including persons who are not members of any militia or engaged in active military service or training, to possess and bear their own firearms," Solicitor General Theodore Olson wrote in two court filings this week.

That right, however, is "subject to reasonable restrictions designed to prevent possession by unfit persons or to restrict the possession of types of firearms that are particularly suited to criminal misuse."

Olson, the administration's top Supreme Court lawyer, was reflecting the view of Attorney General John Ashcroft that the Second Amendment confers the right to "keep and bear arms" to private citizens, and not merely to the "well-regulated militia" mentioned in the amendment's text.

[Atlas Sneezed]

"Or is he making a decision based solely on 'political' calculations, without regard to the Constitution?"

Career first, Constitution second?

[rightofrush]

Why does Bush support this ban?,

Does he not believe in individual Rights?

I guess that you haven't been paying attention. Get used to the Real GW, big brother with a good 'ol boy persona.