Giuliani spokesman's Freudian slip?: Gun show attendees = moonshiners

12:10am Wednesday, November 28, 2007

By Chad D. Baus

Despite almost a year's worth of history lessons by pro-Second Amendment groups across the country, opinion polls prove there are still too many pro-gun Republican voters planning on giving their primary vote to Rudy Giuliani.

I've never been one to buy into election year conversions on gun rights. I find it incredibly insulting when a politician expects America's hunters, sportsmen, concealed handgun license-holders and gun owners to fall for a couple of drunken one-liners in an election year, as though we're all as easy as that airheaded college girlfriend who watches as their date gropes and fondles waitresses, but forgives him as soon as he says "I love you baby. Now go get me another beer."

But for those who have been convinced by Rudy's supposedly newfound belief in gun rights, perhaps they'd like to know what he and his campaign apparently thinks of them, if they've ever attended one of the nation's many gun shows...

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The Associated Press recently published a story entitled "Thompson Touts Gun Rights in S.C.". The story details Giuliani rival Fred Thompson's visit to a gun show (a favorite campaign stop for the former senator from Tennessee) in South Carolina.

The Giuliani campaign, stinging from Thompson's reminder to gun owners at the show that Giuliani "never met a gun-control bill he didn't like until he started to run for president", Giuliani's campaign tried yet again to claim the New York mayor's conversion is genuine...and managed instead to reveal in an email to reporters what I believe is closer to the former New York mayor's true opinion of gun owners:

chasing moonshiners

Even if I am the only bumpkin in fly-over country who understands that to mean that to Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson visiting gun shows = Fred Thompson "chasing moonshiners", I know I'm not the only gun owner concerned about the very valid point Fred Thompson is making:

Rudy Giuliani's record on Second Amendment rights is abysmal.

Early in his presidential campaign, Giuliani began to test a talking point designed to fool Mr. and Mrs. American Gun Owner, telling FOXNews' Sean Hannity he understands that what works in the city may not work in more "rural" areas. Had he been as candid back then as his spokesperson was this week and just called those "rural" areas "moonshine country" perhaps we wouldn't still appear to be on the verge of nominating an anti-gun candidate for President in both major parties.

If you know any pro-gun folks who are honestly still considering casting a vote for a man who was personally thanked by Bill Clinton for helping him pass the infamous, useless, and now defunct Assault Weapons Ban of 1994, discussed with that same anti-gun President plans for establishing uniform national gun control laws, and more recently committed taxpayer dollars to fund junk lawsuits designed to put gun manufacturers out of business, please let them know that the extremist gun control agenda coming out of New York City did not start with current Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and it is up to gun owners everywhere to make sure it does not end up in the White House in 2008.

Chad Baus is a Member of the Fulton County, OH Republican Central Committee and the Buckeye Firearms Association Northwest Ohio Chair.

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