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by Boge Quinn November 4th, 2006 November 7th is Election Day. It's "just" a Mid-Term election, so you may think it's no big deal. You may think "there's not a dime's worth of difference" between the two dominant American political parties (and that opinion would be sadly correct in many ways). You may think that the current Republican leadership has dropped the ball on issues ranging from failing to enact any meaningful immigration reforms, to failing to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources, to failing to aggressively support our Second Amendment rights (and, again, you would be sadly correct). You may think that our current Administration has let us down in various ways, and so the Democrats "deserve a chance" (I'd have to disagree with you on that one). You may think the current strategy for waging the War on Terror is a farce, and that the plans espoused by some Democrats (which all amount to basically cutting our losses, turning tail, and letting the Muslim extremists have Iraq) make more sense. You may think that "change is good" (even if that change may constitute jumping from the frying pan into the fire). All these points are worthy of discussion, and it is not mine to question any considered opinions that you may hold...even if they are wrong. Consider this, however: no matter how moderate the Democrats to whom you are considering presenting your vote are, no matter how reasonable they may seem, no matter how loudly they give voice to their ability for independent thought, you are NOT voting for that person. If you help the Democrats attain their goals of recovering majority power in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, then you will have helped to elect the most liberal and anti-gun Congress ever. Your vote will not only have helped seat the "moderate" Democrat of your choice, and may have sent the desired message to the Republicans whom you feel have let you down, but you will have helped put into place a Congressional leadership that hates your very way of life and will stop at nothing to bring about their ideas of "change" - and be advised, that "change" will NOT be what your chosen moderate Democrats may have espoused during the campaign. I live in Tennessee, where a hotly-contested Senatorial race between Bob Corker (R), former mayor of Chattanooga, and Harold Ford, Jr. (D), current House member from Memphis, is said to be one of the pivotal races nationwide. Rep. Ford seems to be a reasonable man, soft-spoken and charming, and I personally know some people who plan to vote for him for exactly the reasons I have cited - but Mr. Ford is NOT what he seems. Those who have paid attention to his ten-year Congressional record know that he is liberal and anti-gun to the core, and no matter how loudly he proclaims how he is "one of us", his election would represent a single important domino in what could be a national disaster, and would help set back the cause of firearms freedom for decades. His mere presence would help tip the balance of power in the Senate to rabidly anti-gun Senators such as Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Charles Schumer (D-NY), Hillary Clinton (D-NY), John Kerry (D-MA), and Pat Leahy (D-VT); his liberal voting record as a Congressman proves that he would gladly participate with them in attempting to strip us of our freedoms. Tennessee is not the only battleground in the Democrat's Senatorial war: In Missouri, Senator Jim Talent (R) is in a dead heat with challenger Claire McCaskill; in Montana, Senator Conrad Burns (R) is running a tight race against John Tester; in Virginia, Senator George Allen (R) is fighting for his life against Jim Webb; and in Pennsylvania, Senator Rick Santorum (R) stands on the verge of losing his seat to Bob Casey (and, trust me, that would be a loss for us all). These are only a few of the races that are considered to be toss-ups - currently 8 Senate races are considered to be too close to call, with 3 races leaning Democrat and 2 leaning Republican, in a year that the Democrats hope to pick up a scant six seats to return to the majority and hand the reigns of power to liberals like Kennedy, Schumer, Kerry, Leahy and Clinton. In the House of Representatives, the Republican majority also hangs on by a thread. If the Democrats can win 7 of the 9 seats that are considered to be toss-ups, and win the 11 current Republican seats they are currently favored to win, then Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will be the odds-on favorite to become Speaker of the House; Charlie Rangel (D-NY) would be in line to chair the powerful Ways and Means Committee; Henry Waxman (D-CA) would be the presumptive leader of the Government Reform Committee; and John Conyers (D-MI) would head the Judiciary Committee. What would this mean? Not only are all these leaders avowed enemies of the Second Amendment, but Pelosi has pledged to "roll back the Bush tax cuts"; Rangel has stated that he "cannot think of one" Bush tax cut he would allow to come out of his committee for renewal, and has indicated that he would end the War on Terror by ending the funding of it; Waxman has said that Terrorists have been deprived of their "rights" by the current Administration; and Conyers has indicated that he would use the subpoena power of his committee to call "Bush administration officials to answer questions and face the consequences for their abuses of power" - in other words, to begin Impeachment proceedings. So, go ahead. Vote for that "nice, moderate" Democrat. Send a message to the Republican leadership. But be advised that you are actually voting for Kennedy, Clinton, Boxer, Feinstein, Kerry, Mikulski, Reid, Schumer, Biden, Leahy, Pelosi, Conyers, Murtha, Waxman, Frank, Hoyer...the list goes on and on. Still want "change"? Go ahead - but, as the saying goes, be careful what you wish for. Boge Quinn
L-R: Schumer, Clinton, Kerry, Leahy
L-R: Pelosi, Conyers, Murtha, Rangel
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