‘troll’ No, not at all, I’m trully sympathetic with the plight of cbkaty, et al, on the Texas border...and 2A in general.
‘obtuse’ maybe. I guess I really didn’t see where the Pataki thang fit in @ your #599 to begin with...so let’s just say I honestly think we were both ‘out of the blue’ on that whole exchange, and I unilateraly take mine back!
‘apologetic’ sure, didn’t mean any offense at all, believe me. Not a NYer anyway, so no dog in the hunt there at all.
‘back to 2A’...
My point (apparently obtuse) was that all too often I’ve seen RINOs do more damage than Democrats precisely because they automatically get the support of enough Republicans to pass Leftist agendas.
To spin your post in a useful manner: Spitzer is having trouble with his licensing scheme partly because there’s a (D) after his name, and thus automatically is opposed by the (R)s; RINO Pataki probably could have passed the same scheme without difficulty because he’s an (R).