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Marco Rubio on Fox: Obama Not 'Truly Committed' to the 2nd Amendment

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Petero18181/17/2013 11:58:57 am PST

re: #2 Sol Berdinowitz

Just posted downstairs, but I will carry it over here:

The thinking (I dare not call it logic) is this: if you are convinced that Obama is out to repeal the 2nd Amendment and confiscate our guns, then what he has done is merely the first step in his strategy. (Remember that Wayne LaPierre has already warned us about this)

If you are a sane and normal person, then they are merely sane and normal steps to counter insane and abnormal conditions that the NRA has helped to create.

This is the logic of pretty much the entire GOP platform for the last 5 years. Obama is a communist, an internationalist, and a Muslim. To the extent that he turns out to be not those things, than his otherwise moderate acts are couched as the thin edge of the wedge towards those ends.

Obviously there is no way to debate suck an approach other than to ignore it, or point out that it is bat shit insane.

The acts speak for themselves.

Obama is a progressive leader, a Christian with liberal democratic leanings, a strong belief in the separation of church and state, a belief that the constitution is a living document (said belief grounded in the fact that he is an Ivy League trained constitutional law prof), that believes in a solid welfare state including a single payer health care system and that is committed to the success of the United States.

But reality does not make for a good angry mob, and as the GOP dwindles to not much more than its base, the mob is all they have.