Posted on 06/10/2007 8:30:55 PM PDT by JCEccles
Valuable insights may won by studying FDT’s anti-gun votes, insights that are not apparent when his voting history is viewed through the lens of conventional wisdom.
First of all, Fred’s support of the McCain-Feingold assault on the First Amendment (items 5, 12, and 13) was not an isolated one-time brain f*rt. It took a full half-decade to move that odious football the length of the field for a touchdown. And Fred was laying key blocks for John “Whizzer” McCain the entire drive!
In fact, he authored THE amendment that finally cracked the goal line. So when he says, “I’m sorry, I didn’t know what I was doing,” ask him “How in the world could a smart man like you NOT know what you were doing? You had FIVE YEARS to understand what you were doing!” (Note: GOA rightly includes McCain-Feingold as a piece of anti-gun legislation because it gags organizations like GOA from speaking out against anti-gun legislators in the last 60 days before an election).
Second, Fred was on the anti-gun side of several votes where he could have voted pro-gun without affecting the outcome. That is, he could have taken a principled stand but did not. He gratuitously stuck his thumb in the eye of gun owners.
Fred is not the ideological purist that FRedheads vainly imagine him to be.
So just what is it you are afraid of? Whose your dog?
So just what is it you are afraid of? Who’s your dog?
Strike the word “Amendment” from the Title. It should read “Anti-Gun”
In Thompon's defense, he probably didn't know he would one day be auditioning for President when he cast these votes.
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I can't speak for JCEccles, but perhaps he's afraid of getting saddled with another moderate Republican nominee.
Are you a gun owner, political mom?
Are you a gun owner, Petronski?
Note the support Fred gave to anti-gun amendments authored by uber-liberals Lautenberg and Kerry.
* Supports Second Amendment rights but also assault weapon ban. (May 2007)
* Will support assault weapons bill and Brady Bill. (Aug 1994)
http://www.ontheissues.org/Mitt_Romney.htm
``(I) except when a parent or guardian of the juvenile is in the immediate and supervisory presence of the juvenile, the juvenile shall have in the juvenile's possession at all times when a handgun, ammunition, large capacity ammunition feeding device or semiautomatic assault weapon is in the possession of the juvenile, the prior written consent of the juvenile's parent or guardian who is not prohibited by Federal, State, or local law from possessing a firearm or ammunition; and
Ashcroft Amdt. No. 342; To amend chapter 44 of Title 18, United States Code, to enhance penalties for the unlawful use by or transfer to juveniles of a handgun, ammunition, large capacity ammunition feeding devices, or semiautomatic assault weapons, and for other purposes.
Craig is from ID, not WY. WHat else did GOA get wrong?
He's a Romney supporter.
Supporters of Romney or Rudy who drag conservative candidates down to their liberal candidate's gutter is against the rules here.
Bump
I don't see anything in this amendment that is "against the Second Amendment". Have you actually read it? And yes, I have lots of firearms.
Clarification: Thompson voted against S.254 but voted in favor of harsher penalties for parents of young people carrying firearms without notes from their parents (S.Amdt. 342). ...doesn’t make much sense, does it.
I’ll be giving fred sharper scrutiny and perhaps just passing him over
In favor of whom? Rudy McRomney are too liberal, Hunter/Paul/Tancredo are Congressmen, and the other guys are all washed up. That's why you're seeing a huge groundswell of support for Fred. Thompson is a solid conservative who gets it, misleading posts, past votes & statements taken out of context, and the usual ad-hominem attacks against him notwithstanding.
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