I know a number of pro gun Democrats and that's not the problem. It's the leadership Democrats have that leads their party. Newly elected Democrats cannot overcome their leadership, IMHO.
IMHO, the GOP doesn't want better Republicans. They are quite happy with RINOs. If they wanted conservatives, they would close their primaries. RKBA donkeys got rid of a lot of our RINOs in 2006, e.g. DeWine, Chafee, etc. So, in a perverse sort of way, the NRA is doing what the RNC refuses to do, i.e. purge our ranks of Rockefeller liberals.
It's weird, but conservatives only seem to win when the liberals overreach, e.g. 1994. That's when they pick up libertarian voters. In 2006 when the GOP directed their appeal to social conservatives, e.g. the ban on online gambling, the libertarian vote was lost. The Libertarian vote was the margin of victory for Webb in Virginia and Tester in Montana, IIRC.
So, I'm happy as a pig in slop with this blunder by the donkeys. In the Senate they propose crap like this to supposedly protect us from terrorists, but in the House they won't renew the legislation to spy on terrorists. We have two stupid parties. The GOP IS NOT ALONE.
I agree, and that’s why I tell friends to not leave the
Republican party but to actively work from within it, taking it back for all of us.
The only way the Republican Party will move more to the right is if enough conservatives win over or over power the liberal wing of our party.