Democrats don't have a shot with pro-gun voters
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:14 pm
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Democrats don't have a shot with pro-gun voters
ALAN GOTTLIEB and DAVE WORKMAN
Breaking up is so hard to do. Judging from the Democratic Party platform, remarks from presidential nominee Barack Obama and his selection of anti-gun Sen. Joseph Biden as a running mate, the long, transparent courtship of gun owners by Democrats is over.
Instead of a goodbye kiss, there was a slap in the face; the political approximation of a domestic assault.
It was inevitable. After Democrats lost Congress in 1994 because their actions brought legions of angry gun owners to the polls, the party repackaged its rhetoric and tried to sell itself as a friend of the Second Amendment.
American gun owners, who are increasingly becoming gun rights activists, are not the fools Democrats think they are. As we note in our new book "These Dogs Don't Hunt: The Democrats' War On Guns," Democrats earned their reputation as being the party of gun control.
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