U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “Trump has the White House communications staff using Trump-compliant media organs to go after Scaramucci,” insufferable neocon “Never Trumper” Bill Kristol tweeted Tuesday. “Trump senses that a high-profile defector who’s willing to say he was wrong and who can fight back when attacked is particularly dangerous.”
I’m hardly “Trump-compliant,” being a frequent critic of the president’s multiple shortcomings on the right of the people to keep and bear arms. That said, I’ve long considered the repellant Kristol, who advocates that the “‘lazy’ white working class should be replaced by ‘new Americans’,” to be every bit the enemy as the most base of Democrats. Perhaps more so because he still carries the mantle within DSM circles of being a “conservative.” And I’ll tell you flat out, Anthony Scaramucci represents all that’s intolerable about the Republican party and the misleading poll-based direction of betrayal on guns many in its “leadership” are gravitating toward.
Scaramucci has been on a tear of late, savaging the boss he once publicly sucked up to who fired him after only 11 days on the job as White House Communications Director. Naturally, Democrat-sympathizing outfits like Vanity Fair are overjoyed to dish up all the dirt he cares to give them.
His goal, after you get through all the ad hominem attacks, is to “primary” the president, and what he says about that is revealing:
“And again, not that Bill Weld isn’t a great guy, but unfortunately Bill Weld doesn’t have the panache right at this moment. He doesn’t have the panache to light up that group.”
That’s it. It’s not that “Republican” Weld was a politically opportunistic gun-grabbing liar when governor, the equivalent of a Feinstein or a Schumer, turning coat and breaking campaign promises. It’s not that Weld endorsed semi-auto and magazine bans, waiting periods and barring handgun sales to citizens old enough to vote and serve in the military. It’s that he lacks “panache.”
“Conservative” Scaramucci being a dope when it comes to the Second Amendment should surprise absolutely no one who looks at his past treatment of it. Case in point, an ABC News report about Scaramucci deleting tweets from his Twitter account produced these two attitude revelations:
This is the kind of gun-grabbing Republican we’ll get if we listen to the “moderates.” This is the kind of Republican who considers due-process-eviscerating and confiscation-enabling “red flag laws” and “universal background checks” good first steps before they really let us know how they feel about guns in the hands of anyone they don’t control.
What gun owners need to ask themselves is what kind of Republican Trump will be if he doesn’t pull back from the infringements. The “bump stock” Intolerable Act could have been a fatal political miscalculation, except even most gun owners haven’t figured out the issue isn’t about such devices at all, but abuse of executive powers to dictate disarmament edicts. That door opens for future Oval Office occupants, be they Democrats or swamp Republicans, and Kamala Harris, for one, is already licking her chops.
For gun voters, 2020 is still the president’s to blow, and it looks like he and others in the GOP “leadership” may be getting ready to do just that. Assuming they don’t, and the smoke clears after the election with talking head pundits once more gnashing their teeth, there’s one other prospect gun owners ignore at their peril: Once Trump is in for a second term and reelection is no longer a concern, what’s our “Plan B” if he decides it can’t hurt him to show his true colors on guns, and that his legacy plans have nothing to do with what he pledged to cheering NRA members?
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
I just read in the LA Times that the president has backed away from gun control legislation altogether. Citing potential for abuse and absence of due process, he said our money would be better spent on stiffening penalties for crimes with firearms and mental health. It’s why we elected him. Big oorah for his intelligence and flexibility.
So Biden’s as sharp as he was 31 years ago? That must mean he’s always been a dufus!
While what David points out it true, if Hillary had won in 2016 it all might be a mute point. If you look at the timeline of the Vegas shooting, right after the new administration. Was this shooting manipulated so HRC could ban our guns. But Trump was POTUS. So down here in the Sunshine State, in Liberal dominated Broward County, there’s a person with lose screws wandering around, with the kids, who he eventually shot up, joking about how he’s going to be the next school shooter. And THEY (the establishment) did nothing about it. You could say THEY… Read more »
The mooch is a media/attention whore. A needy little man. Have always ignored his spew.
The only gun scaramucci ever handled is his man pleaser..
Codrea is right. The 2020 election is Trump’s (or more generally the RNC’s) election to blow. The Republicans have snatched defeat from the jaws of success too many times to count. Right now, the President needs to stop taking meetings with LaPierre. He is dead and hanging around him makes the president smell like death. I’m beginning to think Lapierre is really trying to help the gun control zealots, so he can later say that his and the NRA’s efforts were stopped by the new wave of anti-NRA people (aka NRA members.) We seriously need for the NRA to be… Read more »
Trump has 517 days left in office. Any unconstitutional acts by the executive branch will be litigated in the courts, whether or not Trump is re-elected. So dwelling on bump stocks now and whether Trump has betrayed gun owners is wasted energy, in my opinion. I believe that If Trump is re-elected, or is defeated in 2020 it will likely be decided by gun owners. Will angry gun owners sit out the race for the presidency and hand the next government to the communists? Because of that unknown I think its now time to focus not on Trumps bump stock… Read more »
As far as “what happens after 2020”, and “decides it can’t hurt him to show his true colors on guns”, all I can say is that I am taking my best (voting) shot, and voting for Trump again. If he decides to “show his true colors” after he is back in office, there isn’t much that I can do NOW to influence that “possibility”, if it is a “possibility”, other than NOT voting for someone (ANY democrat) that is PROMISING to somehow abolish the 2nd Amendment and make a grab for all the guns in the country (and probably triggering… Read more »
Do away with the “gun free zones” which are “killing fields” and a lot of the mass shootings will cease. One shot fired in retaliation against the El Paso shooter would probably have sent the punk scurrying. Many stores now have a sign that says it is unlawful to bring a gun into their store unless it is a pistol carried by an individual with license. I frequent those establishments, because I feel safer. It keeps the bad guys guessing….
Once again we have a very confused application of the term “Conservative.” In the New World context, ours, to be conservative means to advance, protect and argue for our Founding Principles as stated in our Declaration. It does not mean advocate tax cuts for all and free wheeling corporatism. Scaramucci and Kristol both suffer from a common delusion. They both mistake their fundamentally 19th Century Progressive/Positivist ideology with conservatism. This is the Achilles Heel of the Republican Party. The Republican Party has been a Progressive Party since the beginning of the 20th Century. It has simply lacked the neo-Marxist taint… Read more »