I rememeber this guy, also named George. He issued an exec order banning the import of certain guns for 'non sporting purposes'. He also raised taxes. He still had a 90% approval rating, so he was going to win in a cakewalk. This nobody from Arkansas came up, ran as a center-right candidate. He said he wasn't going to take our guns away and promised a middle class tax cut. He won, and won the gun vote.
The rest was history.