You Can't Win
Wayne LaPierre, head of the National Rifle Association:
Even when Democrats do exactly what right wingers want, it's still nothing but part of an evil conspiracy to accomplish...something. I need hardly say that, like everything Republican, the NRA is nothing but a front for corporations and their rich owners. Anything short of total control of the country is inadequate for them, and they are going to try to destroy Democrats just on the off chance that one day one of them might do the right thing.
These are the people that we are supposed to accept as honest negotiating partners- people to whom the most common human decency is a foreign concept. They are eating away at everything that it used to mean to be an American, and so far there doesn't seem to be a thing we can do about it.
"[The Obama campaign] will say gun owners -- they'll say they left them alone," LaPierre told an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Friday. "In public, he'll remind us that he's put off calls from his party to renew the Clinton [assault weapons] ban, he hasn't pushed for new gun control laws... The president will offer the Second Amendment lip service and hit the campaign trail saying he's actually been good for the Second Amendment."
"But it's a big fat stinking lie!" the NRA leader exclaimed. "It's all part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and destroy the Second Amendment in our country."
"Obama himself is no fool. So when he got elected, they concocted a scheme to stay away from the gun issue, lull gun owners to sleep and play us for fools in 2012...the lying, conniving Obama crowd can kiss our Constitution!"
"But it's a big fat stinking lie!" the NRA leader exclaimed. "It's all part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and destroy the Second Amendment in our country."
"Obama himself is no fool. So when he got elected, they concocted a scheme to stay away from the gun issue, lull gun owners to sleep and play us for fools in 2012...the lying, conniving Obama crowd can kiss our Constitution!"
Even when Democrats do exactly what right wingers want, it's still nothing but part of an evil conspiracy to accomplish...something. I need hardly say that, like everything Republican, the NRA is nothing but a front for corporations and their rich owners. Anything short of total control of the country is inadequate for them, and they are going to try to destroy Democrats just on the off chance that one day one of them might do the right thing.
These are the people that we are supposed to accept as honest negotiating partners- people to whom the most common human decency is a foreign concept. They are eating away at everything that it used to mean to be an American, and so far there doesn't seem to be a thing we can do about it.
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