U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “I don’t know what the future holds in November, but I know that the Republican party is going to be looking at what happens after President Trump and whether that’s in four months or in four years,” Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan responded to a leading question by host Chuck Todd Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press. “And I think they’re going to be looking to, ‘How do we go about becoming a bigger tent party?’
“How do we … find that middle ground where people can stand together and by avoiding divisive rhetoric and winning suburban women, winning over Democrats and Independents and winning with minority votes,” Hogan elaborated. “We’re going to have to find a way to appeal to more people and have a bigger tent.
“Right now, luckily as chairman of the National Governors Association I get to avoid a little politics for a little while because I represent Democratic and Republican governors together and don’t have to get too actively involved in the political games,” Hogan responded when asked if he could vote for Joe Biden. “But I’ll have to make that decision between now and November.”
That’s some “Big Tent Republican,” trying to appeal to everyone but the constituency that prevailed in 2016. It makes it fair to ask what he’s willing to give up in exchange for votes. And that makes it fair to ask what that tent expansion he’s calling for means for gun owners.
With Hogan, we don’t have to look far.
“NRA-Endorsed Incoming GOP Governor Will Keep State’s Sweeping Gun Control Law,” The Blaze reported in 2014. So much for “support for and commitment to the Second Amendment” that NRA used as its excuse for the Hogan endorsement (and phony “A” grades” for betrayers, going back for decades, is a topic that could fill volumes).
It wasn’t enough for Hogan to simply enforce existing Intolerable Acts. He had to add some new disarmament edicts because the infringements are never enough.
“Governor Hogan disregarded our veto requests and has signed the Handgun Permit Review Board Bill (HB 819), and the ‘red flag’ bill (HB 1302),” Maryland Shall Issue noted in 2018. “And that is not the only bad news. The General Assembly passed and Governor Hogan signed into law SB707 which purports to ban bump stocks and other so-called ‘Rapid Fire Trigger Activators’.”
It’s no accident that Hogan is getting face time on Meet the Press. The Washington Post has been portraying him as a “lead GOP voice” for the handling of the state’s COVID-19 response. And no less an enemy inside the gates than Bill Kristol floated him as a presidential challenger.
It’s an old trick the Democrats excel at – flatter some useful idiot Republican into parroting their agenda talking points, praise him and make him feel important in the media, and then come election time, turn on him and add to the pile-on criticizing him for being “extreme.”
It reminds me of the way Democrats couldn’t say enough good about Sen. John McCain when he passed. Funny how, when he was still with us and running for reelection, their allies in the national media ridiculed him as too right-wing, too unethical and too dangerous, the political equivalent of a carcinogen (NSFW).
Hogan’s “Big Tent” will be so filled with jackasses and RINOs there will be no room for the elephants. He makes fair the question: With Republicans like him, who needs Democrats?
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.
Someone needs to tell this putz that most violent criminals don’t get their firearms the legal way.
I’ve always said that as the DNC gains power the RNC will cave to anything in order to stay competitive but it is inevitable that we become a one party nation either without a fight or after one. I think Mao called it “The Long March”. Do the math. Numbers do not lie. Demographics will be the enemy of our Constitution. The nature of politicians, both Republican and Democrat, demand that they sacrifice their constituents in order to retain their power and power is what it’s all about. What does a man with power want? More power.
Always a firm grasp on the wrong end of the equation.
They say you know what to expect from your enemies, it’s your friends that you have to worry about.
Republicans this guy is one to worry about.
Your right,he doesn’t have to look to far to find violent criminals, he sees one every time he gets in front of a mirror. The sad fact is that they are going to try to disarm the American citizen. Another fact is that we are not going to surrender our firearms no matter how many unconstitutional laws they wright. Even with all the terrorism that I saw back in the 60’s, these times are without a doubt the most dangerous for our Country. Make no mistake, antifa and blm are terrorist organizations that are funded and protected by the demoncrapic… Read more »
Hogans goat,the pivot for the civilian disarmament circle movement.
Beware of Leftards of all parties.