[MindBender26]

"Love those single issue voters."

Great. A candidate could be pro-PLO, love Saddam, want welfare for all minorities, want psychotic, child-molesting convicted felons to be able to point a bazooka at their house, but if he is pro gun, GREAT!

And they wonder why they lose the battle for public opinion....

[El Gato]

Great. A candidate could be pro-PLO, love Saddam, want welfare for all minorities, want psychotic, child-molesting convicted felons to be able to point a bazooka at their house, but if he is pro gun, GREAT!

Generally speaking it doesn't work that way. Most welfare pimps and those who think criminals have more rights than the law abiding, are also forever wanting to take away the guns from the law abiding. Conversely, anyone who trusts the people with arms is not likely to be planing anything too nefarious. It's a litmus test as it were, reflective of the polycriters overall philosophy.

[Badray]

"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, 'What should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!" --Samuel Adams

[NittanyLion]

Great. A candidate could be pro-PLO, love Saddam, want welfare for all minorities, want psychotic, child-molesting convicted felons to be able to point a bazooka at their house, but if he is pro gun, GREAT!

Wrong analogy. I have little doubt that a candidate who favored all those things, and was Republican, would have your complete support. There is one group on this thread that evaluates principles, and there is your group that evaluates only party.