“And Republicans on the receiving end are largely helpless to hit back, knowing a fight with the much-admired survivor is not one they’re likely to win.”
If this is true, that Repub’s can’t handle this fight, I am shocked at their lack of political knowledge. This is textbook, politics 101, you simply come back with an ad that features an elderly person, a woman, or a teenager, who saved their life or the life of a family member because they were able to defend themself against a bigger, nasty criminal by having access to a gun. Especially, if you have a woman who defended herself against a mean ex-boyfriend. That is just the message to counter the attack. It is simple, it is politics 101.
If you can’t handle these kinds of attacks, then you can’t run a political campaign in 2014. We are in an era when the Stalinist left feels it has an open road to all their desires. They have taken the strategy of running official victims (race, affliction, point of view) for office because they assume those official victims cannot be criticized in a campaign. Any opponent must simply ignore that strategy or the opponent will defeat him or herself.
And you can research the people in the ads and find the truth. Stalker was parolee murderer that got probation after 15 months in jail, etc, etc, etc. repeat offender was a know criminal did not obtain the gun legally. I’l bet that the guy may ave used another weapon and they just lied or made up the whole story.
Simply recreate that ad Bloomberg ran a while back that showed when seconds count, the police are just minutes away.
I was thinking of a reenactment of the Giffords shooting.......except someone takes the shooter out with a licensed carry after his first or 2nd shot. Use your own imagination for the ending statement on a black screen.
Let them scream. Hit them back and hit them hard.
Big sigh. I can dream can’t i?
Not one thin dime for the RNC when they call after 9:00 p.m. demanding money.
The GOP-E is so OWNED by the forces of P.C. F’em!
Gabby Giffords’ astronaut husband had better start banging on NRA members’ doors & ordering them to surrender their guns. That’s how we’ll know she means business!
BINGO!!!!! And there are plenty of women around who would gladly do that kind of ad!