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To a politician, the most important thing in life is to get elected again and again, perhaps to ever higher office. To do that he needs to find the biggest cause in town, the biggest parade, and jump in front of it. When, over time, sufficient portions of the crowd drift from one parade to another, and the cause starts to lose public interest, the astute politician changes parades.
Fringe politicians, those who lead small parades, are seldom electable. See R. Paul. And politicians who gain a seat do not do so by campaigning from the fringe. It is true that once in office they may reveal their true colors, but that precludes them from ever again leading a significant parade. See B. Obama.
In the past the pro-gun parades have been small. That's not to say that most people were anti, just that they either didn't think being pro-gun was important or no part of the entire concept really rose to consciousness. But that is changing.
Thus the anti-gun politican who, a few years later, suprised that the pro-gun parade has grown larger than he remembers, observing that more folks are joining all the time, ponders whether he's leading the wrong parade.
Our job is to grow our parade, if we don't do that nobody will be interested in us and the hope of quickly expanding gun rights becomes dim. Our job is also to vote for the most electable person nearest our point of view. If our guy is not elected, we've lost ground. More important than ground, we've given time to the opposition. Whoever we vote for, he has to be a contender. Even if it's Romney.
Cross posted on Maryland Shooters.
John.
To a politician, the most important thing in life is to get elected again and again, perhaps to ever higher office. To do that he needs to find the biggest cause in town, the biggest parade, and jump in front of it. When, over time, sufficient portions of the crowd drift from one parade to another, and the cause starts to lose public interest, the astute politician changes parades.
Fringe politicians, those who lead small parades, are seldom electable. See R. Paul. And politicians who gain a seat do not do so by campaigning from the fringe. It is true that once in office they may reveal their true colors, but that precludes them from ever again leading a significant parade. See B. Obama.
In the past the pro-gun parades have been small. That's not to say that most people were anti, just that they either didn't think being pro-gun was important or no part of the entire concept really rose to consciousness. But that is changing.
Thus the anti-gun politican who, a few years later, suprised that the pro-gun parade has grown larger than he remembers, observing that more folks are joining all the time, ponders whether he's leading the wrong parade.
Our job is to grow our parade, if we don't do that nobody will be interested in us and the hope of quickly expanding gun rights becomes dim. Our job is also to vote for the most electable person nearest our point of view. If our guy is not elected, we've lost ground. More important than ground, we've given time to the opposition. Whoever we vote for, he has to be a contender. Even if it's Romney.
Cross posted on Maryland Shooters.
John.
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