Tuesday, May 18, 2010

The Florida GOP

The Orlando Sentinel reports on the political climate in central Florida.

U.S. Senate hopeful Marco Rubio and four other Republican hopefuls stumped at Central Florida’s largest gun show Saturday, courting a powerful force in Florida politics: gun owners.

Rubio, a Miami native, made his rounds at the Central Florida Fairgrounds to meet gun enthusiasts and suppliers while displaying his support for the Second Amendment — the one protecting the right to keep and bear arms. Rubio received his concealed-weapons license last summer after announcing his Senate candidacy.

“It’s an important constitutional right,” Rubio said at the Great Southern Classic Gun and Knife Show. “It separates us from the rest of the world.”


Now, there's something worthy of a QOTD. "It separates us from the rest of the world."

Indeed.

Attorney General Bill McCollum, who is running for governor, spent most of the morning at the show shaking hands with conservatives.

McCollum doesn’t have a concealed weapons license but noted he’s a quail hunter and owned a shotgun before it was stolen “a while ago.” But he affirmed he was a defender of the Second Amendment.

Why would he even say that? Doesn't he realize that having a gun stolen is almost as bad as misusing the weapon himself? As a savvy politician, isn't he smart enough to keep his mouth shut about something that can be damaging to his career, something about which people might think he's a stupid and irresponsible man who failed to properly secure his shotgun?

Of course, the people he was addressing wouldn't think any such thing. To them, getting a gun stolen every once in a while is part of the deal. It's certainly nothing that can reflect back on the gun owner since only the thief is responsible for his actions. That's about it, right?

What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.

8 comments:

  1. In other news, NRA member and recipient of an "A+" rating from Chairman Wayne, Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN) will be resigning this week as he was discovered to be hiking the Appalachian Trail.

    Naturally, this "champion" of family values will resign to "spend more time with his family" and invoke God's name at each opportunity in order to mask the fact his zipper lock seems to fail.

    --JadeGold

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  2. Jade never misses an opportunity to totally derail a thread.


    I don't know anything about these Florida conservatives. They could be pulling a Mitt Romney or a Mike DeWine and trying to suddenly be pro-gun.

    I am happy though that people like DeWine and Romney (and perhaps these Florida candidates as well) find it politically necessary to suddenly be pro-gun. That means that not only we are a force to be reckoned with but our unforgiving attitude to those that were previously hostile to the Bill of Rights has an impact.

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  3. Yep, the power of the NRA male enhancement movement kept that socialist Obama out of the WH...er..umm..

    --JadeGold

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  4. Meanwhile, at the White Male Enhancement NRA Meeting in NC, we find NRA members more reasonable than NRA leaderhip:

    http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/15/nra-terrorist-list/

    http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/16/nra-gun-restrictions-convention/

    http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/17/nra-guns-bars-alcohol/

    --JadeGold

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  5. Jade got to make a dick joke, all is better now.

    And I fixed this for him:

    Meanwhile, at the White Male Enhancement NRA Meeting in NC, we find selected video outakes of a very few of the NRA members that responded to a poorly worded question.....

    There, that's more accurate than what Jade wrote.

    Any chance now you could comment on the actual topic or are you just going to continue to use MikeBs forum as a venue to throw out unrelated attacks and dick jokes?

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  6. Well, since FWM asked...

    We've since learned NRA member and recipient of an "A+" rating from Chairman Wayne, Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN) apparently trysted with a staffer lady friend who was not his wife at state parks.

    I suppose this means the NRA will be demanding unfettered rights to use "guns" in state parks.

    --JadeGold

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  7. http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/15/nra-terrorist-list/

    If this is the case it shows the NRA needs to keep getting the message out to educate gun owners on what “terror gap” legislation really is. The answer is obvious to the ignorant- “Sure we shouldn’t allow terrorists to buy guns”

    http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/16/nra-gun-restrictions-convention/

    How is this an example of finding “NRA members more reasonable than NRA leadership”? This was the NRA leadership’s policy based on the venue they selected. Why are you not praising them as being “reasonable”?

    http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/17/nra-guns-bars-alcohol/

    The Virginia Citizens Defense League is not the NRA. But then again, neither is the Hutaree, Timothy McVeigh, Bin Laden, Voldemort, The Soup Nazi, or anyone else who you hate.

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  8. 4 posts and Jade still can't stay on topic once.

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