Romney and the MA assault weapon law

[alfahornet]

I came across this dated article and thought I share it ...

Romney signs off on permanent assault weapons ban / iBerkshires.com - The Berkshires online guide to events, news and Berkshire County community information.

Enjoy

 

[indykid]

One of the many reasons that Romney should not be a republican nominee. Or a republican for that matter.

 

[hondatech2k2]

I would have never of voted for him, even if he was the ONLY candidate!

 

[spec4]

He is definitely a RINO. If he is the GOP nominee, we get to choose between a RINO and a socialist. Holding my nose very tightly, I will vote for the RINO because I know my way of life couldn't survive four years of the socialist. Plus, a (hopefully) GOP Congress will keep the RINO in check.

 

[littletommy]

It would be very hard for me to vote for him, his rationale on automatic weapons is just plain stupid, and I'm sure the stupid doesn't end there. That said, I can't see him being as bad as what we have now. Not a good situation.

 

[buckstopshere]

There is a movement growing in the us with gun ownership in a positive direction. That's why I'm not concerned about Romney. He flip flops so much with whatever is popular. I don't think he would do anything either way. Nothing to restrict guns but at the same time, nothing to move gun ownership forward like national reciprococity or constitutional carry.

I'm praying for Ron Paul. No one is going to like everything a candidate has to say, but RP's core values and constitutional views make me think he's what we need now.

OP - thanks for the find. It was good information.

 

[rugertoter]

He is definitely a RINO. If he is the GOP nominee, we get to choose between a RINO and a socialist. Holding my nose very tightly, I will vote for the RINO because I know my way of life couldn't survive four years of the socialist. Plus, a (hopefully) GOP Congress will keep the RINO in check.

Thats about where I am on that issue!

 

[jgreiner]

I came across this dated article and thought I share it ...

Romney signs off on permanent assault weapons ban / iBerkshires.com - The Berkshires online guide to events, news and Berkshire County community information.

Enjoy

Reason 532 to NOT vote for Romney........

 

[Scutter01]

If he is the GOP nominee, we get to choose between a RINO and a socialist. Holding my nose very tightly, I will vote for the RINO because I know my way of life couldn't survive four years of the socialist.

There are more than two candidates in a Presidential election.

 

[AndersonIN]

There are more than two candidates in a Presidential election.

True but in my opinion the third choice only insures the election of the socialist!

 

[Scutter01]

True but in my opinion the third choice only insures the election of the socialist!

That's only because of all the people who say "I won't vote for a 3rd party because he can't win". If you're going to throw away your vote anyway, why bother voting?

 

[edporch]

Romney is nothing more than a "chameleon" who changes his "colors" to whatever he needs to win an election.

Romney is ONLY loyal to Romney.

The Republican Party can either nominate a republican or they won't get my vote.
I'll vote for the candidate that supports Rule of Law (if there is one)

I'm sick of elections where both candidates are democrats who speak of "our democracy"and no matter who we elect, the country keeps shifting further away from the Rule of Law.

 

[jsgolfman]

That's only because of all the people who say "I won't vote for a 3rd party because he can't win". If you're going to throw away your vote anyway, why bother voting?

I already proved after the last election that 3rd party votes would not have changed the outcome. If EVERYONE who didn't vote for Obama had voted for Mccain, he still would have fewer votes than Obama, by a longshot.

 

[edporch]

That's only because of all the people who say "I won't vote for a 3rd party because he can't win". If you're going to throw away your vote anyway, why bother voting?

There was a time in my life where i took an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.

When I vote for a domestic enemy of the Constitution, I become one myself by supporting them, and I violate the oath that I took.
Thus becoming part of the problem that's shifting this country away from Rule of Law, which will be it's downfall..

Maybe people already feel like they're throwing away their vote if they vote for either the Democrat or the Republican when BOTH are domestic enemies of the Constitution.

So the only hope is to make the Republican Party realize there are a large block of small "r" republican voters that have been abandoned by a Republican Party that is no longer republican.

And the further this country shifts away from Rule of Law, the larger this block will be and the Republican Party will gain an advantage when they work to get them back.

 

[jedi]

True but in my opinion the third choice only insures the election of the socialist!

Good at least that way we can finally have this out of control train finally hit the wall and de-rail and we can then start all over again. At the rate we are going all the R candidates (minus RP) are only going to slow down the train by a bit but none are willing to stop it or change it's course. So rather than leave the mess in the hand of our children/grandchildren lets just speed up this bad boy and make it finally crash.

 

[edporch]

Quote:
Originally Posted by AndersonIN
True but in my opinion the third choice only insures the election of the socialist!

Good at least that way we can finally have this out of control train finally hit the wall and de-rail and we can then start all over again. At the rate we are going all the R candidates (minus RP) are only going to slow down the train by a bit but none are willing to stop it or change it's course. So rather than leave the mess in the hand of our children/grandchildren lets just speed up this bad boy and make it finally crash.

To add some perspective to what you're saying, I wised up back in the 1996 election cycle when then Republican Presidential candidate Bob Dole said "our job is to slow things down..." with reference to the Democrats.

"Slowing things down" STILL keeps us on the SAME course.

I also remember seeing a video of Bob Dole saying in reference to people who called him to task for supporting the so-called "assault weapon" ban LAUGHING at us and saying "they say I'm violating the Constitution!... LOL LOL"

After that election, the Republicans called me asking for a donation and I told them if they want my support, start following the Constitution and quit acting like democrats.
And either nominate republicans or forget about my vote!

 

[MrSmitty]

Romney is too slick, Perry is too

 

[DarkLight]

True but in my opinion the third choice only insures the election of the socialist!

It is my opinion now that you should not vote on someone just to keep someone else from taking office. It's voting for a supposedly "lesser" evil, but its still voting for evil. And in the end its YOU who is throwing your vote away, but worse than that, its throwing it away AND hurting those that still care enough to try and fix the system. I for one don't want to kick yet another can down the road for my children to deal with.

You should vote for someone you can actually be happy about voting for.

Anyone that says "voting for X is just throwing your vote away" is simply trying to continue us down this dead end road. STOP IT! I want out of this train wreck! I want to see the USA improve, so stop telling me that a 3rd party vote is useless! The 2 major parties want you to believe its only option A or B, but that is not the case.

 

[ViperJock]

That's only because of all the people who say "I won't vote for a 3rd party because he can't win". If you're going to throw away your vote anyway, why bother voting?

Well, its simple math unfortunately. People who vote are about half divided into Lefties and half "everybody else." The everybody else consists of real republicans, people who vote republican, and people who vote for libertarians, or other parties. Therefore if the non-lefties all vote their preferred candidate...the majority goes to the socialist. Its an unfortunate truth. Thus we often end up voting for the lesser of two evils because, well, we'd prefer not to have the greater of two evils.

It is my opinion now that you should not vote on someone just to keep someone else from taking office. It's voting for a supposedly "lesser" evil, but its still voting for evil. And in the end its YOU who is throwing your vote away, but worse than that, its throwing it away AND hurting those that still care enough to try and fix the system. I for one don't want to kick yet another can down the road for my children to deal with.

You should vote for someone you can actually be happy about voting for.

Anyone that says "voting for X is just throwing your vote away" is simply trying to continue us down this dead end road. STOP IT! I want out of this train wreck! I want to see the USA improve, so stop telling me that a 3rd party vote is useless! The 2 major parties want you to believe its only option A or B, but that is not the case.

The only way for a third party to win is for some of the left to also side with that party. Right now things are so polarized that it would take a pretty amazing candidate to win enough votes from both left and right to beat the 2 major parties and not just spoil the republicans. It is what it is. You can be sick of it all you want, Darklight, but its the system we live in. Sometimes the best you can do is slow down the destruction. Destruction at a slow pace is better than destruction at a fast pace is it not? Maybe one of these days enough people will wake up and decide that we need to stop destroying ourselves at all, but I doubt it. The country gets dumber by the generation.

And if you don't vote at all you helped to elect the winner. All those non-voters out there can take solace that in not casting for McCain, they chose Obama by default. If you let us know who you are I can try to get you an "I voted for Barry" bumper sticker.

The republican primary only has 3/9 republicans in it this time. Santorum, Cain, and Gingrich. Johnson and Paul are Libertarians/Tea Party. Bachman is pretty much Tea Party. Romney, Huntsman, and especially Perry are all progressives pretending to be conservatives on TV.

I'll vote my mind in the primaries, but if my candidate loses, I'm still voting AGAINST Obama and that means for the most likely other candidate that can win. Your lofty values and Ivory tower philosophy on the value of your vote won't save us if Obama wins again. At least if a republican wins, we have bought a little more time to convince people that they are in a downward spiral.

 

[gunowner930]

True but in my opinion the third choice only insures the election of the socialist!

Can you please explain how Romney is better than Obama based off both of their records? I don't give damn what Romney says because he'll say something else next week. His record is putrid, and he ran Massachusetts exactly like a blue state Democrat governor. I'll throw my vote away before I vote for that clown.