Something happens to Democrats on the gun issue when they run for president. For John Kerry during 2004, it was awkwardly posing in brand new hunting gear at a seemingly endless series of hunting photo-ops.

But in what will probably be the most improbable change, the Politico reported on Saturday that Barack Obama was making a big play for gun votes in Pennsylvania. It is not particularly surprising that this change is occurring with the crucial Pennsylvania primary soon approaching.

With about one million of the country’s 12.5 million hunters, Pennsylvania is number one in the nation in the amount of time its citizens spend hunting. With about 600,000 people with permits to carry concealed handguns, Pennsylvania also has more permit holders than any other state.

Others, such as Jim Kessler, vice president for policy with Third Way, a progressive think tank, view Obama as starting to position himself for the general election. More. . .

With guns, it sure looks like Obama is again telling voters what they want to hear, not what he plans on doing.

*John Lott, is the author of "Freedomnomics" and a senior research scientist at the University of Maryland.

Visit Dick Morris' website for more and order his book "Fleeced" it's great read. More. . .

'THE Axis of  Idiots'

This is a savvy man. He has  nailed it down pretty well. Too bad it won't do much good.  There won't be a 1 in 10 chance that  those who receive it (this e-mail) will forward it. It sure loses steam that way.

(Too bad we don't have  folks on Capitol Hill willing to speak out like this.  J.D.  Pendry is a retired  Marine  Sergeant Major  who writes for Random House. He is eloquent, and he seldom beats around the  bush!)

'THE Axis of  Idiots'

Jimmy  Carter, you are the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. You  threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home, and  then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when they took  our embassy and our people hostage. You're the  runner-in-chief. (and the man who initiated the 700 billion dollar housing "crisis").

Bill  Clinton, you played ring around the Lewinsky while the  terrorists were at war with us. You got us into a fight with  them in Somalia and then you  ran from it. Your weak-willed responses to the U.S.S. Cole and  the First Trade Center Bombing and Our Embassy Bombings  emboldened the killers. Each time you failed to respond  adequately, they grew bolder, until 9/11/2001.
(And of course, you revitalized the equal housing laws that perpetuated the Fanny and Freddy Bail-out).

John  Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute. You lied  about American Soldiers in Vietnam . Your  military service, like your life, is more fiction than fact.  You've accused our military of terrorizing women and children in  Iraq . You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time, the same words you used to  describe Vietnam. You're a  fake. You want to run from Iraq and abandon the  Iraqis to murderers just as you did to the Vietnamese. Iraq,  like Vietnam, is another war that you were for, before you were  against it.

John  Murtha, you said our military was broken. You said we can't win  militarily in Iraq. You accused  United States Marines of cold-blooded murder without proof and  said we should redeploy to Okinawa . Okinawa, John? And the Democrats  call you their military expert! Are you sure you didn't suffer a  traumatic brain injury while you were off building your war hero  resume? You're a sad, pitiable, corrupt and washed up  politician. You're not a Marine, sir. You wouldn't amount to a  good pimple on a real Marine's butt. You're a phony and a  disgrace. Run away, John.

Dick  Durbin, you accused our Soldiers at Guantanamo of being Nazis,  tenders of Soviet style gulags and as bad as the regime of Pol  Pot , who murdered two million of his own people after your  party abandoned Southeast Asia to the Communists. Now you want  to abandon the Iraqis to the same fate. History was not a good  teacher for you, was it? Lord help us! See Dick  run.

Ted  Kennedy, for days on end you held poster-sized pictures from Abu Ghraib in front of any available television camera. Al Jazeera  quoted you saying that Iraqi's torture chambers were open under  new management. Did you see the news, Teddy? The Islamic Nazis  demonstrated another beheading for you. If you truly supported  our troops, you'd show the world poster-sized pictures of that  atrocity and demand the annihilation of it. Your legislation  stripping support from the South Vietnamese led to a communist  victory there. You're a bloated, drunken fool bent on repeating  the same historical blunder that turned freedom-seeking people  over to homicidal, genoc idal maniacs. To paraphrase John Murtha, all while sitting on your wide, gin-soaked rear-end in  Washington .

Nancy  Pelosi, Harry Reid, Carl Levine, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein,  Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Pat Leahy, Barack Obama, Chuck  Schumer, the Hollywood Leftist morons, et al, ad nauseam: Every  time you stand in front of television cameras and broadcast to the Islamic Nazis that we went to war because our President  lied, that the war is wrong and our Soldiers are torturers, that  we should leave Iraq, you give the Islamic butchers -  the same  ones that tortured and mutilated American Soldiers - cause to  think that we'll run away again, and all they have to do is hang  on a little longer. It is inevitable that we, the infidels, will  have to defeat the Islamic jihadists. Better to do it now on  their turf, than later on ours after they have gained both  strength and momentum.

American  news media, the New York Times particularly: Each time you publish stories about national defense secrets and our  intelligence gathering methods, you become one united with the  sub-human pieces of camel dung that torture and mutilate the  bodies of American Soldiers. You can't strike up the courage to  publish cartoons, but you can help Al Qaeda destroy my country.  Actually, you are more dangerous to us than Al Qaeda is. Think  about that each time you face Mecca to admire your  Pulitzer.

You are  America 's 'AXIS OF  IDIOTS.' Your Collective Stupidity will destroy us.  Self-serving politics and terrorist-abetting news scoops are  more important to you than our national security or the lives of  innocent civilians and Soldiers. It bothers you that defending  ourselves gets in the way of your elitist sport of politics and  your ignorant editorializing. There is as much blood on your  hands as is on the hands of murdering terrorists. Don't ever doubt that. Your frolics will only serve to extend this war as  they extended Vietnam . If you want  our Soldiers home as you claim, knock off the crap and try  supporting your country ahead of supporting your silly political  aims and aiding our enemies.

Yes, I'm questioning  your patriotism. Your loyalty ends with self. I'm also questioning why you're stealing air that decent Americans could  be breathing. You don't deserve the protection of our men and  women in uniform. You need to run away from this war, this  country. Leave the war to the people who have the will to see it  through and the country to people who are willing to defend  it.

No,  Mr. President, you don't get off the hook, either. Our country  has two enemies:Those who want to destroy us from the outside  and those who attempt it from within. Your Soldiers are dealing  with the outside force. It's your obligation to support them by  confronting the AXIS  OF IDIOTS.

America must hear it  from you that these self-centered people are harming our country, a betting the enemy and endangering our safety. Well up  a little anger, please, and channel it toward the appropriate  target. You must prosecute those who leak national security  secrets to the media. You must prosecute those in the media who  knowingly publish those secrets.

Our Soldiers need you  to confront the enemy that they cannot. They need you to do it  now.

Semper  Fi,
 

J. D. Pendry - Sergeant Major, USMC,  Retired

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