Reply #82: We Are Taking Them All [View All]

[moindependent]

At least according to your esteemed leader, Feinstein. I was raised in Missouri, in a Democratic, Catholic family. However, the Democratic positions on gun control and abortion have been a bitter pill, made all the worse by the lackluster presidential candidate you chose. I was shocked to find out how many life-long democrats around here voted Republican for the first time ever, because they "just didn't trust Kerry."

I've been reading your posts for several days on this board, and I've found them to be enlightening and entertaining. It's nice to see that some of you have figured out that to appeal to me, the typical red state fence-sitter, you've got to get on the right side of these issues. You've finally recognized that we vote on more than economic interests, and that these issues tend to be a litmus test for the candidates we choose. There's no room for compromise on the gun issue, and very little on abortion.

If you want our votes, you'll have to rid your Senate and House presence of the far-left influence. Adopt a national and local platform that includes the elimination of ineffective gun laws, and calls for exceptionally harsh punishment for felons caught with guns. And for god's sake, drop all of this garbage about weapons bans and registration. Criminals don't register their guns, and they don't care if you banned them. If you saw what a 10 year old can do with a bolt action rifle, you'd forget all about AK-47 look-a-likes, and start trying to ban the Remington 700.

By the way, we don't appreciate being called stupid rednecks, hillbillies, or any of the other names that some of you folks, especially those from New York, have called us. There's a nice pile of screenshots from this site on the desk of a local Democratic politican in town. His Republican neighbor presented him with it as proof that your party is out of touch and out of step with our needs. I'll suggest that you pull your heads out of your collective asses, get out of the 60's, and do something useful for this country.