“For Bob McDonnell, VP Talk Won’t Go Away,” a November Roll Call headline declares.
“GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney…may choose Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell…as his running mate if he secures the nomination next year,” the accompanying photo caption reads.
But why settle for Number Two? There’s a “Draft McConnell” website (the site owner behind the move is masked by proxy domain registration) claiming:
We Don't Have to Settle
A recent report by Rhodes Cook, Senior Columnist at the Center for Politics, shows that it's not too late for a Republican to enter the 2012 Presidential race. Bob McDonnell has a strong conservative record, and he can win the general election. Sign the petition to encourage him to run today!
And in the “Bob on the Issues” sidebar section, we see this prominent position:
Pro-Gun Record
Indeed, on his gubernatorial campaign website, we see:
National Rifle Association Endorses Bob McDonnell for Governor…
…Chris Cox, NRA Institute for Legislative Action executive director, noted, ““Bob McDonnell is an effective leader for Virginia hunters and gun owners. His opinions and actions as an attorney general have protected and enhanced the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Virginians. His zero-tolerance attitude toward criminals makes him the best choice for governor. We ask every Virginia hunter, gun owner and Second Amendment advocate to vote McDonnell for Governor this November.”
What’s not to like?
McDonnell unlikely to back bill forcing colleges to allow guns…
…Gov. Bob McDonnell likely would not support legislation that would prevent Virginia colleges from banning concealed firearms in campus facilities, he said Tuesday.
"I think it's unlikely a bill like that would pass, and I think at this point I would probably be unlikely to sign it," McDonnell said.
Gee, an NRA-endorsed candidate stabbing gun owners in the back and adopting the same position as the Bradys. Where have we seen that before? And before…? And before…? And going back decades…? (And it’s not like McDonnell’s previous support of Virginia’s one-gun-a-month law shouldn’t have been a clue for NRA that they were dealing with a creature of malleable “principles” of convenience, who viewed our unalienable rights as political bargaining chips.)
Here’s what McDonnell is telling us if he thinks it is legitimate to ban law-abiding and peaceable adults from having the means of self-defense on college campuses: If the excuses for doing so are valid there, they are valid anywhere. If college campuses are safer being “gun free,” then that principle must hold true everywhere--unless we are to believe crossing an invisible property line puts us under a magic spell where we suddenly lose the self control, morality and judgment we exhibit everywhere else, only to miraculously regain them when we exit the premises…
By this one statement of tyrannical arrogance, McDonnell has revealed himself to be a manipulator without principle, a totally unacceptable choice for gun owners, and, in fact, a greater danger to their freedoms than an outright gungrabber, because this charlatan first uses the fraud of gaining their confidence so he can get into a position to knife them bad and make it stick.
I don’t care what his past positive accomplishments have been—remember there were few greater and more lauded heroes in the War of the Rebellion than Benedict Arnold—until he turned to the dark side to advance his own interests.
They say one “Aw sh***” can wipe out all those “Attaboys,” and in this case, that’s proper. How dare this “effective leader for Virginia hunters and gun owners” take the side of enforced citizen disarmament, and absolutely betray not just activist gun owner volunteers and donors, but a solemn oath of office made to all?
For that alone he deserves to have his rating changed to “F.” And the thing is, NRA knew about this position from his statements as Attorney General.
If anybody wants to draft this newly self-outed domestic enemy to any position of political power and privilege, I suggest they get their campaign ground troops from Handgun Control, Inc., because their policy on campus carry pretty much mirrors this bait-and-switch con man’s.
Also see:
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Project Guntalker
My appearance last night on The Moretti Report is archived here. My segment starts shortly after 60 minutes in.
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Ramblin’ Man
If you are, and if you do it armed, you’ll want “The 2012 Traveler's Guide to the Firearm Laws of the 50 States.” Per author Alan Korwin:
Twenty-nine states have changed their gun laws. More than 85 changes altogether. It's all in here.
Click here to learn more and to order, and to see some of the other offerings from Bloomfield Press.
CLARIFICATION NOTE: The author of this book is attorney J. Scott Kappas. Author Alan Korwin runs Bloomfield Press and has written many of its titles.
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Spead the word
Regular readers: If you agree that mainstream press coverage of the gun rights issue demands a counter-balance, please help me spread the word by sharing Gun Rights Examiner links with your friends via emails, and in online discussion boards, blogs, social media sites, etc. Then get more commentary at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance.
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