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stroo wrote:Also remember Coulter pushed Romney this time around and is a big Christie fan. Frankly I don't trust her judgement anymore if I ever did. She is very entertaining though.

That is her role in this. She isn't going to hold office, but can entertain, inform, enthuse voters. I wish Al Franken had realized this.

We tend to measure people by how they might stack up as President. Almost none of them will be. Most will do best in some other role. Being President isn't for everyone, even some of the ones who are sworn in.

The best thing that could happen is that every politician in elected office who embraces these nutty proposals never gets re-elected again. Gun control becomes the "third rail" of elected politics.... touch it and you die. It wouldn't take more than a couple of elections before the folks thinking of a career at the public trough get the message.

Mayor, city council, County commissioner, President of the PTA, Legislator, Congressman, director of the volunteer fire department, etc. nobody gets elected who has favored sullying the 2nd Amendment. They are just kidding when they take an oath to preserve protect and defend the Constitution anyway.

RoyGBiv wrote:[...... Ann Coulter is making exactly this point over the past few weeks in regard to resolving the illegal immigration problem. Her warning?

Ann Coulter@CPAC wrote:“If amnesty goes through, America becomes California, and no Republican will ever win another national election. The state that gave us Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan will never elect another Republican,”

I heard Rush Limbaugh making exactly the same point on the drive in this morning.

It will be managed so that those who need to vote "for" a gun law will get to, and those who need to vote "against" one can do so, for campaign purposes, but getting 60 votes will prevent anything from actually happening.

Nothing happens by accident, and no votes are taken where the outcome and ramifications are uncertain. These guys live by political calculations, and it is hardball at this level.

Remember "The Distinguished Gentleman?"

Thomas Jefferson Johnson: "Terry, tell me something. With all this money coming in from both sides, how does anything ever get done?"
Terry Corrigan: "It doesn't. That's the genius of the system."