| John McCain Is a Liberal Gun Grabber 
By Chuck Baldwin
The last thing we need is another
liberal neocon in the White House. If the presidency of George W. Bush proved
anything, it proved the hazard of electing phony Republican conservatives. At
least one is able to clearly see a liberal for what he or she is when they have
a "D" behind their name. But put an "R" behind the name and
suddenly their liberal, Big-Government, anti-freedom agenda is barely
recognized, which makes a liberal Republican much more dangerous than a liberal
Democrat.
Let me say it straight out: a John
McCain presidency would be far worse than a Barack Obama presidency. With a
Democrat in the White House, conservatives and Christians suddenly find their
principles and are able to offer resistance. Put a Republican in the Oval
Office, however, and those same people become blind, deaf, and dumb to most any
principle they profess.
Nowhere is McCain's chicanery and
duplicity more jeopardous than in the area of the right to keep and bear arms.
On issues relating to the Second Amendment, John McCain is a disaster! For
example, the highly respected Gun Owners of America (GOA) rates McCain with a
grade of F-. McCain's failing grade is well deserved.
John McCain sponsored an amendment
to S. 1805 on March 2, 2004 that would outlaw the private sale of firearms at
gun shows. According to GOA, the provision
would effectively eliminate gun shows, because every member of an organization
sponsoring a gun show could be imprisoned if the organization fails to notify
each and every "person who attends the special firearms event of the
requirements [under the Brady Law]."
John McCain also sponsored an
Incumbent Protection provision to the so-called "Campaign Finance
Reform" bill, which severely curtails the ability of outside groups (such
as GOA) to communicate the actions of incumbent politicians to members and
supporters prior to an election.
The GOA report of the 106th Congress
reveals that out of 15 votes relating to the right to keep and bear arms,
Senator John McCain voted favorably only 4 times. Put that into a percentage
and McCain's pro-Second Amendment voting record is a pathetic 27%.
In addition, GOA
warns that John McCain supported legislation that would force federal agents to
increase efforts in arresting and convicting honest gun owners who may
inadvertently violate one of the many federal anti-gun laws, which punish mere
technicalities, such as gun possession.
For example, if John McCain's
proposed legislation were to become law, a gun owner who travels with a gun
through a school zone or who uses one of the family handguns to go target
shooting with a 15-year old could be sent to prison. And a person who uses a
gun for self-defense could be sent to prison for a mandatory minimum of five
years.
But there is so much more to the
McCain madness.
Former California State Senator H.L.
"Bill" Richardson wrote this about John McCain, "He's [McCain's]
proven his dislike for conservatives and would gut us at every opportunity.
"Why do I say that? Because of
three decades of experience as a Republican California Senator and a fifty year
activist in the conservative movement. I have first hand, in-their-face
experience with elitist RINO's (Republican in Name Only) office holders. They
are biblically ignorant, power hungry, status seeking egotists who have no
difficulty aiding their liberal Democrat colleagues whenever their arms are
politely twisted. The one thing they have in common with liberal Democrats is
their dislike for all conservatives, especially those who are Bible-believing.
McCain, as president, would stifle the voices of elected Republican leaders and
try to legislate the conservative movement out of existence."
Senator Richardson went on to say
that he would in no way vote for John McCain, if indeed McCain is the
Republican nominee (which he obviously will be).
I wonder how many gun owners and
other professing pro-freedom Americans have already fallen victim to McCain's
phony conservative campaign? Do they not realize that they are giving a rope to
the hangman? And that they--conservatives and gun owners--are the ones who
McCain will send to the gallows? What is wrong with the American people these
days? Have they not been betrayed enough by these phony conservative
Republicans?
For example, President George W.
Bush nominated Michael Sullivan to be Director of the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Sullivan is one of the nation's
most rabid anti-gunners. GOA's Larry Pratt
describes Sullivan as being "as anti-gun as Ted Kennedy." Honest gun
owners, lawful firearms dealers, and law-abiding gun show operators could have
no worse enemy within the federal government than Michael Sullivan. We could
expect no worse from Hillary Clinton. And a John McCain Presidency would
doubtless give us more of the same. Gun owners (along with conservatives
and Christians of all sorts) should be ashamed of themselves for allowing an
angry, gun-grabbing liberal such as John McCain to become the presumptive
Republican Presidential nominee, while rejecting the candidacy of one of
America's most principled pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, pro-Constitution, and
pro-freedom legislators of this generation: Congressman Ron Paul.
I say again, the last thing we need
is another liberal neocon in the White House. John McCain may have an
"R" behind his name, but he is just another establishment liberal:
one America
cannot afford.
Chuck Baldwin is a candidate for president of the United States
on the Constitution Party ticket. Click here
for his official campaign web site.
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