Newt Gingrich: Gun Grabber and Global Warmer?

The video, above, speaks for itself.

So too does Georgia Gun Owners, a grassroots gun rights group from Newt Gingrich's home state of Georgia that is blasting Gingrich for "his more than two-decade history of supporting gun control." The group has asked its 6,000 (a massive membership for a state organization) to call Gingrich's new Iowa headquarters and make their complaints known.

In their press release, which they sent out yesterday morning, the group blasted with a few simple facts:

While Newt used the institutional gun lobby as a mouthpiece to convince millions of gun owners nationwide that "as long as he is Speaker, no gun-control legislation is going to move in committee or on the House floor," he was working behind the scenes to pass gun control.

In 1996, Newt Gingrich turned his back on gun owners and voted for the anti-gun Brady Campaign's Lautenberg Gun Ban, which strips the Second Amendment rights of citizens involved in misdemeanor domestic violence charges or temporary protection orders -- in some cases for actions as minor as spanking a child.

Gingrich also stood shoulder to shoulder with Nancy Pelosi to pass the "Criminal Safezones Act" which prevents armed citizens from defending themselves in certain arbitrary locations. Virtually all Americans know that Criminal Safezones don't protect law-abiding citizens, but actually protect the criminals who ignore them.

Yep.

And for the record Newt doesn't hunt and he doesn't fish, and so far as I can tell he doesn't even own a dog, much less a hunting dog.

What he DOES do is cheat on his wives and dump them when they are sick (he has done that TWICE already), cheat on taxes, take payola, and lie to fellow members of Congress (he was censured for all of that and had to pay a $300,000 fine imposed by his fellow Republican members of Congress who tried to dump him as Speaker).

Obama fishing the East Gallatin, Montana.

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Some part of me says maybe we should keep the Kenyan in the White House.

At least he doesn't cheat on his wife (Michelle would cut it off and toss it to the dog).

He pays his taxes.

He fishes (likes it so much, in fact, that the White House staff gave him a fly rod for his birthday).

He even has a dog that maybe could retrieve a duck if it had a little field training.

Plus the Kenyan fellow has really supported the Second Amendment -- he even filed a Supreme Court brief in support of it.

It may turn out that the Democrat Kenyan is the only good American conservative in this race.

How ironic is that?

And lest, you think I am alone in this take, read what they have to say over at the arch-conservative Hot Air blog where they say it's better to put up Ron Paul and lose with principles than field the likes of Gingrich and Romney which would leave the GOP a tattered wreck (and a joke) for a generation to come.
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Charles (Darwin) In Charge

They have professional gun safety classes for a reason. From St. Louis:

Imperial man shoots himself in the head while teaching firearms safety

KSDK -- An Imperial man is dead after accidentally shooting himself in the head while teaching his girlfriend firearms safety.

Sheriff Glenn Boyer said that on Friday, deputies responded to 4307 Rock Valley Court in Imperial for a shooting. Investigators found 40-year-old James Looney with a gunshot wound to the head.

According to witnesses, Looney was demonstrating how to use the different safety mechanisms on several guns to his girlfriend. The witnesses said Looney would put the guns to his head, and before pulling the trigger, would ask her if she thought the gun would go off. With the first two guns, the safety mechanisms worked. The third gun fired.

Looney was transported to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead the next morning.

According to witnesses, Looney was going to take his girlfriend to the shooting range the next day, but insisted on the lesson on firearm safety the day before.

Deputies believe alcohol was involved.

His name was Looney? Of course it was ...

Remember: The tree of life is self-pruning. Try not to be part of the dead wood.

Staying away from booze and drugs really helps in that regard.

A word to the wise is sufficient. .

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The Hip-Hop GOP?

The Washington Times reports on the bold new ideas of RNC Chairman Michael Steele, who happens to be Black, corrupt and (apparently) cRaZy.

Newly elected Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele plans an “off the hook” public relations offensive to attract younger voters, especially blacks and Hispanics, by applying the party’s principles to “urban-suburban hip-hop settings.”

… “There was underlying concerns we had become too regionalized and the party needed to reach beyond our comfort” zones, he said, citing defeats in such states as Virginia and North Carolina. “We need messengers to really capture that region - young, Hispanic, black, a cross section … We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-surburban hip-hop settings.”

A "hip-hop" GOP?

Right. Go with that. Wonderful idea. Deep thinking and quality leadership there!

And what will Michael Steele's "hip-hop" GOP be all about?

Who knows?!! All we know for sure is that Steele personally supports a ban on "assault" weapons. As he told The Washington Post just two years ago:

"You draw the line. I mean, what do you need an assault weapon for?"

Me? Not a thing! But what's the definition of an assault rifle again? I keep forgetting ...

And what was the National Rifle Association's response to Michael Steel's "let's ban assault rifles" rhetoric?

Simple: they spent about $4,000 in support of his bid for Governor.

Principled.

Not.

No wonder the GOP and the NRA are both considereed three-letter jokes.