Posted by
Always To The Right on Saturday, September 06, 2008 2:22:45 PM
As I read it, he’s making a simple rhetorical point to try to moot gun
owners’ paranoia, like McCain telling a group of pro-choice voters,
“I’m not going to issue a decree banning abortion. Even if I wanted to,
I lack the constitutional authority.” Translation: If you’re unwilling
to take me in good faith, at least recognize that it’s stupid to let
your vote turn on the issue given the political reality of the
situation. If this is some kind of Freudian slip pregnant with secret
intent, how does it jibe with 18 months’ worth of notoriously weasellyconveniently flip-flop
on the D.C. gun ban after the Heller decision came down. Is the
suggestion that he’s now let his guard down just two months before the
election? Or is it that he’s going to throw electoral caution to the
wind once in office and push for some sort of Second Amendment rollback
with his deep blue Congress, thereby handing the GOP a killer wedge
issue on a silver platter? I don’t get it.
statements on the subject? He keeps his rhetoric cautious because he’s
actually deathly afraid of offending gun owners in swing states; hence
his repeated trumpeting of the rights of hunters and “sportsmen” to own
guns even while pandering to his base by questioning the rights of city
dwellers — although not questioning them so sharply that he couldn’t