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No one is arguing that any of the current RAT candidates (nor any other RAT for that matter) would be better than George W. Bush in '04; nor that it would be a bad thing if the Congress had more Repubos in it after the '04 election; nor that the RAT Party self-destructs and is relegated to permanent minority status; nor that more Repubo governors are elected. I will always support the Pubos over the RATs.

But....if a Republican-controlled House and a Republican-controlled Senate and a Republican Executive cannot keep the Federal AW ban from sunsetting on time next September, and, indeed, even vote to not only renew but to strengthen the ban, I am going to have to seriously reconsider what to do about the almost certain long-term demise of the Constitutional Republic. Make no mistake, because, then the only difference between the two major parties will be the speed at which they are taking the Republic over the cliff to socialism. "As goes the 2nd, so goes the Republic." To me, the RKBA is a bellweather to the direction that the country is going - either freedom and libetry or socialism and slavery - it will be only a matter of time - and it won't matter one damn bit who is currently "in control."

[JohnnyZ]

But....if a Republican-controlled House and a Republican-controlled Senate and a Republican Executive cannot keep the Federal AW ban from sunsetting on time next September

It's D-E-A-D. Even if a couple moderate Republicans in the northeast deserted in the House there are a few dozen Democrats who would be scared *less to vote against guns right before the election, or ever.