He’s more on the other side of the issue, IMHO. (even his more recent statements).
What do you think will happen when the Dems stroll out the next mass murderer to frighten the flock?
Has he internalized the core principles? Would he be able to withstand the pressure? Or would he heed the call to ‘just do something’ and become a brutally efficient champion for a knee-jerk socialist power-grab (as in the case of MittCare)?
I took a good hard look at Mitt when Tancredo endorsed him. The thought of Romney ramrodding ‘feel-good’ ‘bipartisan’ legislature with a Dem majority in congress gives me pause.
I’ve read quite a few of your posts, and I respect your right to choose. Let me ask you this. If Mitt’s more extreme wonky stances were on the ‘tax-cut’ portion of conservatism, would you want him in power?
I’m not sure I understood your question. If I thought he was weak on tax-cuts, it would be a factor, but not the only factor.
I’m not too worried about Romney going along, not nearly so much as I am with McCain going along. If I was a single-issue gun voter, I might well vote for Huckabee just to be absolutely sure, but I think that would be very bad for the country.
I think Romney is actually electable, and as such is a good bet for gun-rights people because better to have the Presidency than to have Huckabee as the nominee and Obama as President. I’m pretty sure Obama will sign an expansive new set of gun laws sent to him from a democratic congress.
But there is always danger in emotionalism. Fred Thompson was asked, in the wake of the Tech Shooting, what he thought about guns being banned from a public college campus. I hoped he would say that was the problem. But what he wasid was that he supported the right of the state to decide for itself if people could carry guns on public campuses.
I don’t think he SUPPORTED that position, but he supported them having that position, which went against the idea of personal rights for gun owners. It gave the power to the state to ban my right to bear arms.
I don’t own a gun. I doubt I ever will. I don’t think I could shoot someone. But I strongly support the individual right to keep and bear arms. I oppose my state’s stupid rules banning people from carrying guns. I’ve written opinion columns about that.
I would say that gun rights are not my 1st issue. Neither is abortion, although it is above guns for me. the 1st amendment is higher for me, but all three of those are below a few other issues — the war on terror, and limiting government intrusion into our lives being higher on the list.