Posted on 01/16/2013 6:02:13 AM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Wednesday said the leftover campaign apparatus from President Barack Obama's re-election bid is more than capable of overpowering the lobbying efforts of the National Rifle Association.
Gibbs said the president may have to return to campaign mode in order to push for new gun policies, suggesting that Obama should barnstorm the country to promote the proposals that the White House will unveil on Wednesday.
"He's got to get out of the White House and travel the country," Gibbs said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "He's got to make his case directly to the people."
Gibbs said Obama's ultra-sophisticated campaign operation could serve as a vital asset in making that case, arguing that the grassroots infrastructure that secured the president two terms can trump any effort by the NRA — despite the pro-gun lobby's claims of a spike in membership since last month's massacre in Newtown, Conn. Vice President Joe Biden reportedly told House Democrats earlier this week that the White House intended to deploy campaign resources to ramp up support for its gun control proposals.
"The president has the most exciting campaign apparatus ever built. It's time to turn that loose," Gibbs said. "It's time to turn that loose for something more than just an election. If the NRA's got a list, then Obama for America has a bigger list."
That something is fascism. Isn't it great?
(Former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Wednesday said the leftover campaign apparatus from President Barack Obama’s re-election bid is more than capable of overpowering the lobbying efforts of the National Rifle Association.)
How about you add a few million veterans to that effort? Or a few hundred thousand rank and file police officers? Or many thousands of previous crime victims that do not want to be victimized a second time and certainly not by the Government?
This is like the Permanent War in Orwell's 1984.
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. And Obama is always campaigning.
And let's not forget Alinsky's Final Rule: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Obama: When Alinksy met Orwell.
To Arms! To Arms! The Brownshirts are coming. The Brownshirts are coming.
Bring it on scumbags. You will lose.
Sorry, I wish I were as optimistic. We are no longer a Constitutional Republic. We are not quite Chavez yet, in between the twilight zone.
The Constitution works only if/when all parties and governments agree to its execution. The way DC’s operating it’s just a piece of paper, we had lost even without going through a majority vote.
It worked so well in the health care debate, remember? Every time he went on TV to berate Americans for not agreeing with him, it’s popularity went down.
He may have won in the end (by cheating) but it never got more popular. He won’t get a single gun control floor vote in congress from this.
Conservatives and supporters of the 2nd amendment the Obama regime is using the 2nd amendment argument to blame gun owners for its inability to deal with the hundreds of gangland murders and shootings commited in areas under their solid control using illegally obtained firearms. Their solution to those inner city problems is to remove those rights provided by the constitution to have and bear arms from all US citizens.
None of those 19 so called “reforms” and unconstitutional efforts being edicted by who some call an emporer do not deal with those issues. They won’t because instead of creating a uniformly democratic society where every citizen has an equal voice no matter what their race or ethnicity.
Their policies have grouped races and ethnic groups by gerrymandering congressional districts where much of this criminal activity occurs.
GOPES {goverment of the people (republican party) elites} see this issue as a 3rd rail because most of it is black on black or illegal vs illegal (Mexican) activity . GOPES are also afraid to say that policy has also increased racial tension but GOPES accept this because of the influence of mainline socialist media which would be accusing them of “racism” if they dare to question it by state controlled media. Which gets protected by the very constitution they seek to destroy.
Considering that the media monopolists are part of his apparatus, he may be right.
Flushed game or moving target?
I'd settle for a million without arms, but with signs. However, none of the major gun rights organizations seem interested in pushing mass demonstrations. Instead they are playing the call your congressman game and trying to fight the coming regulations. This is going to result in losing further ground, with the only question being how much ground. The left consistently mores the boundaries more toward state authoritarianism. We do need a people power take back the streets strategy, but no Martin Luther King for the second Amendment has appeared.
Have you been paying attention these last four years?
Gibbs, you couldn’t be more wrong. The NRA’s membership swelled in the past month by 250K. Can you say the same about the Obama’s campaign thugs?
The perpetual campaign...Something else the GOP doesn’t get.
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