Reply #89: This IS hilarious, Jake....

[MrBenchley]

"some real issues"
Let's see, we got a war in Iraq we don't know how to get out of, we got the guy who attacked us on 9/11 running around free and clear, we got unsecured ports, factories and rail and bus stations, we got jobs going out of the country every day, we got the deficit skyrocketing out of control, we got open bigotry, we got pollution....

And you want to tell us we should try to reach out to people who looked at all that and thought those weren't REAL issues, but that the threat that John Kerry might take away their dicks guns was. Because, of course, they will respond to "real issues" once we pander to their paranoid delusions.

And then flying monkeys will come out of Wayne LaPierre's doughy butt.

"Labor Union households are overwhelmingly RKBA"
And the AFL-CIO ended up on the NRA enemies list. In fact, there's no more anti-labor organization in America than the National Rifle Association.

"Take Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Rick Santorum. He has voted with the gun lobby enough times on gun-related issues that he has earned an A+ rating from the NRA. At the same time, he has consistently voted against workers' interests, and for business' interests, on almost every workplace-related issue. He has opposed increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment benefits and establishing an ergonomic standard that would make workplaces safer; and he has supported provisions that would make millions of workers ineligible for overtime pay and that would weaken unions and union rights.
And Santorum is not the exception; he is the rule. On work and employment-related issues that come before Congress, NRA-supported politicians are much more likely to support the interests of employers than the interests of employees."

http://www.postgazette.com/pg/04248/373232.stm