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In reply to the discussion: This Democrat thinks he can win in 2016 as the anti-Obama [View all]appal_jack
(3,813 posts)Yeah, I'll take 'fashion' and 'judgement' recommendations from people who believe that the Constitution can be ignored on a whim. Actually, MADem on second thought, I won't. Your judgement seems flawed and shallow.
Schweitzer is not in fact "in bed with the NRA," he just upholds the Second Amendment as vigorously as the Fourth, and the rest of the Bill of Rights. I happen to want a politician who acts like the Supreme Law of the Land is, well, supreme. His commentary on Hillary's pathetic IWR vote indicates that he takes that whole 'separation of powers' thing in the Constitution pretty seriously too. Nice.
But all you 'sensible gopher' types accuse him and the Democratic voters who dare hope for a leader of substance, principle, and depth of tilting at windmills. What has your ideology gotten us over the past few decades? NAFTA, the Iraq War, a massive surveillance state, a drug war going at full-tilt despite the abject failure of all its stated goals. Ah yes, all very realistic.'
-app