Reply #304: My oh my... [View All]

[TnDem]

Now I know why I remained a lurker so long...

Benchley,
After reading your many posts on this issue both before and now after the election, I have come to wonder if you are really working for the Republican party?

Why would anyone so consistently tout a losing issue SO loudly and SO vehemently? You don't strike me as unintelligent nor do you seem uninformed. Virtually everyone has agreed from Bill Clinton to the most right-wing of the right that guns and the continued talk of limiting their ownership in one form or another HAS hurt the Democratic party. Why not just admit that your position is BULLSHIT and you are wrong? It is absolutely killing us in rural states and even with many suburban voters. I can GUARANTEE you that Kerry would have won the popular vote in the US if he had a string Senate record of supporting gun owners rights. Instead all he could do was pose with a dead goose and new camouflage and hide from his horrendous gun record which the NRA used against him HEAVILY in Tennessee, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

I don't give a tinker's DAMN if 75% of the country answers that they are for some form of gun control in a poll. You misunderstand and are completely oblivious to voter intensity in rural states on this issue alone. I am baffled as to how people cannot see it.

STFU about guns, STFU, STFU, STFU....Say nothing, no "waiting periods", no "reasonable restrictions", no "common sense". If that stuff plays in NY, then let the NYC mayor make that case and let it be an issue for that city to decide.

Do you not understand this and if so, why still support an issue that is killing the party?....Unless you really don't care about the party and just care about guns.

Explain this to me Benchley...Why continually tout this one losing issue as something you say we need to continually embrace when hundreds of us on this forum KNOW it is something we need to run so hard AWAY from? Explain it concisely, nicely and to the point please.