Gov. Ted Strickland endorsed Hillary Clinton for president yesterday and will campaign with her in Iowa today, fueling speculation that he will be on Clinton's short list of possible running mates next year if she wins the Democratic nomination.But he's our friend!
I don't suppose it's occurred to anyone that we're being played, or as Stieger says:
We've been conned. Bare-ass naked in the town square conned.
Think about it--"The Winning Team" helped put him in office--over an A-rated Republican, one supported, incidentally, by GOA and various state grassroots groups. He then endorses their biggest enemy, and she in turn could give him the opportunity to vacate his office to an avowed anti--one everybody knew about in the campaign. There's a master chess strategy for you.
Even if these speculations don't come to pass, anyone who endorses Hillary has picked his priorities, and is no friend of gun owners.
I can't wait to hear the spin chastising me for not realizing that "politics is the art of the possible." How those who preemptively surrender and go for short-term opportunistic manipulation as part of the game plan can be authorities on what truly is possible lies beyond my poor ability to fathom.
[Via The Ready Line]
8 comments:
I dropped my NRA membership for basically the reason listed in this post. The NRA gave the Dem and Rep governor candidates in GA. the same rating. But the Dem (Zell Miller, who turned out to do a good job later in the senate) helped a great deal toward getting Clinton elected. I had a yelling match with the poor guy at the NRA about it. He gave some weasel response "We don't look at any other thing the candidates are doing. We just look at their gun/2nd amend. stand." Well HELLO! You have weigh the candidates' other beliefs also.
We know your feelings of betrayal here in Texas too, David. Our own Gov. Rick Perry endorsed Rudolph Giuliani a few weeks ago.
Democrats and Republicans, except for Ron Paul, are beyond salvaging. Deny this truth at your own risk.
If she don't cotton to Strickland for whatever reason, she could always get Voolfie. Ja. Bitte, Voolfie, if they goon down miene kinder und Frau und me, bitte kommen und sing at my funeral.But I wonder, Komerade, what song will you sing when they come for you? Ich habbe! Innocents Betrayed.
You're dead right about Landslide Lee, that's for sure. (For those outside Ohio--Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher.)
Fisher would veto Castle Doctrine, and I don't know whether there are the votes to override now. Probably foot-drag on fighting "home rule" objections to Ohio CCW, too. He ain't got and won't get the votes in the legislature to do much more mischief than that--as if that's not plenty.
Ken Blackwell's 2006 campaign was one of the great disappointments of my life to date. The GOP establishment here picked up its jacks and went home when Jim Petro didn't get the nomination, and that didn't help either, but Blackwell was not at the top of his game. I made inquiries about doing a lit drop in my neighborhood and never heard from anyone, stuff like that. Too bad--I thought he might be Presidential material in 2012 or 2016.
Can't wait to see the spin certain "Friends of the NRA" put on this.
Wouldn't it be nice though, to see them explain why the NRA isn't friendly to their membership or defense of the second amendment?
There's one key difference Kent, if you're going to play the political game, which is what this story is about: Gun owners have the ability to deny the slim margin of victory by which most elections are won to many Republicans, but not to most Democrats--that is, if we sit on our hands or vote third party, the Repub can be made an example of. The dynamic generally doesn't work that way across the aisle.
But if you're strictly talking adherence to principle, I won't argue with you.
With Fs like NRA, why do we need Es?
RH
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