Post from The_Macallan -
If all gunowners simply voted for Harry Browne in the next general election, by sheer numbers we could TAKE this country back from the quagmire of neo-marxism we're fast sinking in now.
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That's the problem, my friend, 'if all the gunowners' is a very nice pipedream, but a pipedream nevertheless.
I doubt that half of the 80-100 million gunowners in the country vote! I doubt that half the gunowners who do actually vote, wind up voting for conservative Republicans!
We gunowners can't even get our own shit together!
[b]There are likely a small core of 4-6 million folks who think the way we think about the RKBA![/b]
Right now they represent a core faction in the Republican Party.
If we decided to split from the Republican Party, we'd likely lose half of that 4-6 million number.
I know that I would still consider voting for John Kusich (R-OH) for President even though he lied to his constituents when he said he would not vote for the AWB...and then did!
Especially if the other choice was Hillary Clinton!
To vote against John Kusich in such a situation would be shameful, for it would let a much greater evil come to fruition!
There are too many other matters riding on the choice of the Presidency in order to let even the most important matter, the RKBA, be the [u]sole[/u] determinant of how you would vote!
But we all have to make the leap TOGETHER.
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Precisely, but Captain are you certain that the Republican ship is sinking?
Or merely in danger of sinking and that, if we worked together, we might save both the ship and ourselves?
We all have to stand up in UNISON.
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Quite right, but unity in numbers is also critical!
We have to put aside our differences and be UNITED as ONE.
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That's why we stay in the Republican Party along with the likes of John McCain (R-AZ) and Rudy Guiliani!
To defeat the DEMOS is the only way to play this hand we have been dealt!
Only THEN can we regain our independence!
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[b]'Had we but world enough and time,'[/b] as Andrew Marvell wrote to his coy mistress!
But we don't.
The ship is sinking. Our house is on fire.
And emergencies such as these require complete cooperation by everyone who admits the ship is sinking and our house is on fire!
The Republicans are in charge and we could easily be in charge of the Republicans!
In some respects, we already are!
See, Tom DeLay (R-TX) House Majority Whip!
Are you with us? (or are you against us?)
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I am with us, so long as 'us' is the largest possible majority that we can obtain without sacrificing essential liberties!
Eric The(Steadfast)Hun[>]:)]