Whatever it is you're smoking, you really should quit.
Bill Clinton did not say "This bill is a giant leap forward in our journey toward a totalitarian peoples' paradise" when the AWB was passed, though that was the agenda.
There is a middle third of the voters who have no clue, but it is they who determine the course of elections. They listen to the bleating of the Liberal press and think it is the gospel.
Gun control is an issue the press is expert at demagoging. Give them an opening and they will have the clueless sector of the electorate peeing all over themselves.
So, I take it you disagree with this article's premise?
You don't have to "give them" an opening, they make their own, and on this issure, "renewal" of the AWB, they are already in full bleat. The issue is not going to die, and "W" will be blamed, already has been in some reports, for the "strategery" of talking renewal while secretly "ordering" Tom Delay to kill it. If he's going to get the heat anyway, he should get into the kitchen ... unless the "stragery" that you and the gun grabbers seem to think is what's really going on is not what's truly behind his spokesmans' statements of his support, but rather that the President really does support renewal. I actually hope you and the gun grabbers are right on this one, but it doesn't really match his general MO. He might hold his cards close, but he doesn't use a marked deck either.