Bubba was plugging one of these guys a while back
A couple of Democrats are trying to woo us gun-toting (and God-fearing) types:
Two moderate Democrat senators are leading an effort to improve the Democratic Party’s image among churchgoers and gun owners with the hopes of recapturing Congress and the White House next year.
Sens. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) and Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) said Democrats have adopted the wrong political strategy when it comes to countering Republicans on cultural issues like religion, gun rights and family values.
“If we appear to be hostile to individuals of faith, hostile to those who own guns, indifferent to the concerns of traditional families and weak on national security issues,” Bayh said, “that is not a winning prescription for the Democratic Party.”
Somebody gets it. I’d like to see more pro-gun Democrats. Hell, I’d like to see any prominent politician come out against the Assault Weapons Ban.
For the record, I plan on voting for Howard Dean in the primary and protest vote to the Libertarian candidate in the general election. Why would I do that? I’m hoping people like me will cost the Republicans the election so that they will learn their lesson and get back to being the party of small government. And Dean is the Democrat most in tune with my views. I still predict Bush will win and it won’t even be close.
October 17th, 2003 at 11:51 am
I also plan to send a protest vote against big government Republicans–by voting for the Democratic nominee. 8^)
October 19th, 2003 at 4:45 pm
Ben West is the best friend a TN gun-owner has. He is a Democrat member of the TN House.
Not all Dems are dims.