That's a big "if", isn't it?It is a big if, but the point is that it's an if. Painting ourselves into a corner, rhetorically by insisting that it is a foregone conclusion is going to interfere with running a fact-based campaign in 2012.
As far as the gun issue, we'll probably have a renewed AWB in less than a year. I'm sure we'll also have some "reasonable restrictions" on other guns as well as ammunition.That's a possibility. It's a far cry from Obama taking guns away from anyone.
You sure sound like an Obama supporter. Are you one?I've said many times that I supported Barr. That said, I am a patriot and Obama is going to be President. I want Obama to succeed in turning this country in a better direction and I have no choice but to give him the chance to do that in his own way. I could also choose to sink into rage and bitterness. I could choose to rant on about how evil Obama is and how he's a secret Muslim or other such silliness. I could choose to urge my representatives in Washington to block everything he does, or I could urge the to use whatever influence they have to exert some conservative common sense on proposals that are likely to turn into policy under the majority-Democratic regime.
If that makes me sound like an Obama supporter, so be it.
I also don't buy a lot of the mythology that permeates the right wing "blog-o-sphere." Invading Iraq was unnecessary and has proven to be a historically bad idea. I don't feel any obligation to defend it to supposedly redeem conservatism — it has nothing to do with conservatism. Being a conservative is not like being a sports fan. You cheer for your team whether they play poorly or not. I don't have a team, I have a philosophy. Right now, promoting that philosophy will require working with the Democrats.
That's just a fact.
You claim to have voted for Bob Barr, but want to give the socialist a chance to turn the country in a "better direction."
Why don't you give us examples of what the steps toward this "better direction" would be?