Dems abandon gun control

If they just abandon enough of their positions, everybody will like them. Uh huh. In all fairness, the gun control groups share the blame for this little fiasco. Where have they been the past ten years? Every year or so we have a major gun crisis in the news - e.g., Colombine, the DC sniper, the Virginia Tech massacre. And where are the gun groups when this happens? Politely sitting back quietly so as not to be seen to be "taking advantage" of the situation. But to some extent they can't help themselves. They're liberal. And liberals don't fight back. They don't seize opportunity. They play nice with a firm belief that in the end justice will prevail. Well, justice just bought herself a gun.

This is my larger concern about the health care reform debate, about gay rights, about every issue Democrats care about. Our large non-profit advocacy groups, on the whole, don't have what it takes to win. They don't know how to fight back. Hell, they don't want to fight back. They think fighting back is "mean." And cumbaya Democrats don't do mean. So, we talk tough like we always do, all the while our enemies know that when push comes to shove, Democrats and their non-profits will be the first ones to blink, like they always are.

Where are the big campaigns on health care, guns, gay rights, women's issues? Oh sure, some of them, like health care, "exist." But are they making news? Are they taking advantage of the random blips in the news cycle? Are they fomenting, and influencing, a national debate? Are they going for the jugular and putting the fear of God into their opponents?

Are they?