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My Rights, they are your Rights to remember, should NEVER be held hostage like this.
Hiding your head in the sand won't change reality.
OF COURSE our rights SHOULD never be held hostage like this. That doesn't change the reality that they ARE being held hostage. Nor does it change the reality that our best hope is that a fickle voting public elects more RINOs.
I don't like it either. The Republican Party in general and George Bush in particular have shown themselves quite willing to disregard principles and contradict their own rhetoric whenever they think it will gain them a political advantage. The best one can say about them is that the Democrats are even worse. As it is I found myself rooting for the Dems during the recent Medicare vote, and hoping that political gridlock would save us. Unfortunately it didn't.
Still, Bush has demonstrated a willingness to nominate intelligent and principled judges, and then fight for them (albeit so far unsuccessfully). He clearly intends to make his mark by remaking the federal judiciary. Not all the consequences of that across a range of issues will be good, but the RKBA consequences should be very good.
It's our best chance to recover our rights. If you want to ignore the facts and beat your chest and yell loudly that we shouldn't have to put up with all this sh!t, be my guest.
It still won't change reality.
Not sure I want another four years of that crap. Is there no one else in the GOP that is worth a damn? I KNOW there isn't on the lefties side of the isle. I wouldn't even vote for Zell due to some of his lefty BS.
Failing a Bush re-election bid, a Republican majority IN BOTH HOUSES, and getting just the right justices nominated in time to hear just the RIGHT case, what other unlikely events need to unfold before you come to the rational conclusion that the system is irrevocably broken?