Via JWF (and AoSHQ) comes this remarkably bald-faced gesture of contempt by Democrats towards gun control advocates.
Democratic leaders are wooing staunchly pro-gun candidates to run in pivotal Senate races at the same time they are discussing a strategy for bringing gun control legislation back up for debate.
The two candidates most mentioned in the Hill article above were former Governor Brian Schweitzer (for Montana) and former Representative Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (for South Dakota). Both are supposedly firm gun rights advocates; neither will survive being flipped on the topic (neither would Mark Begich of Alaska and Mark Pryor of Arkansas, both of whom sensibly voted against Joe Manchin’s* background check amendment). Of course, it’s an open question whether any of those four mentioned will survive even without being flipped on the topic, which is why the DSCC has zero intention of catering to fanatical gun-grabbers by allowing them to dictate ‘acceptable’ candidates. This, of course, was known: what was perhaps unexpected was the way that nobody’s particularly trying to hide this political calculus.
Then again, when you shear a sheep, you don’t actually ask it how it wants its fleece done. You take the wool, boot the sheep in the rear to get it on its way**, and shear the next one.
Moe Lane
*Omission there done with malice aforethought. Do your own agitprop, ye Democrats.
**I have absolutely no idea how people shear sheep, and it didn’t seem to be worth looking up. I’m a big believer in learning not-immediately-useful information, but let’s not be absurd about it.
**I use Wallace & Grommit’s “A Close Shave” as my benchmark for sheep-shearing knowledge.
I use the Pixar short Boundin’ for that myself.
Fine choice especially as the dems have a pink kink in their think.
We can hope the smarter SIVVs can learn from experience…
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Bart Stupak
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Mew
Didn’t you watch “Dirty Jobs”?!
There are only 24 hours in a day, dude.
Only concern I have is how long will they remain pro-gun. We learned with Obamacare that there is no such thing as a prolife dem. Sounds like a typical trojan horse plan, load up the senate with supposedly “safe” choices then attack
Only until the election is over and they’ve won that has been the lesson. They’ll call it a post-election attack of conscience or an evolution or whatever the current phraseology is that the leftists are using for “Ha Ha, I lied”.