Reply #476: The answer is so simple as to seem silly.... [View All]

[MrBenchley]

"Would it be better to lay this issue down and try to regain the thin margin to win and work on the other issues?"
If this was a meaningful question, we wouldn't see pResident Weakling trying to pretend he was also for gun control. But he does pretend that, and we should have hammered him for the lie every day of the campaign.

"Or is gun control so important to the party that we should cling to it even though it means we won't get any other parts of our agenda through?"
It sure as shit is important to the majority of our voters, and to the millions of moderate and independent voters who were fooled by the GOP's lip service to gun control.

Meanwhile it's hard to see how any prospective voter who rejects the entire Democratic agenda and is happy to lose his pension just so he can wave his popgun around can be thought of as a prospective Democrat in any meaningful way.

"I can't see us abandoining abortion rights."
But the whole point of this thread (once you strip away the right wing horseshit, lies, and hysteria) is that we should piss away some principle we currently hold for a slight electoral advantage by pandering to an extremist unreasoning minority.

Accept that dubious and immoral argument (and I can't imagine why anyone would), and it's even harder to see why we should pander to a group that even the Republicans oppose (in empty words) and not pander to the one they actively court out loud.