Reply #474: Third way is a loser [View All]

[TnDem]

This so called "third way" is exactly the way the Democrats have been portrayed for the last 15 years. It is a loser.

Re-read some of the posts by Beevul and myself about abortion and "reasonable restrictions", and other key words that turn off gun owning voters. You have already lost the fight when you propose ANYTHING. If you do that, you might as well embrace the complete anti-gun viewpoint, because you've lost those voters anyway.

"Reasonable, safe and sensible" sounds good to the moderate like yourself who doesn't vote solely on the gun issue. You will lose every red state however. That puts us right back in the position of ceding 200 electoral votes from the start of the election and fighting for Florida and Ohio. Sure you may have a FEW people that vote solely on the anti-gun side, but they are FAR fewer in numbers and mostly in urban areas already where the Democratic party will win soundly and with double-digits without the gun issue.

The key is expanding our base and getting back all of our union and rural voters who would have voted with us had the gun issue been COMPLETELY negated. That only happens by talking the real talk. That means NO new restrictions and no blabbering about gun at all. If the candidate talks about firearms, he needs to know what he/she's talking about and be able to articulate a red state winning strategy which would include TOTALLY protecting gun-owners from new legislation, (notice I didn't say "hunters" which is the first mistake that non gun owners make when broaching the issue).