It has been proved that primaries don’t work. There must be a better way. They should draft a candidate who has proved he can win in the battle ground states, e.g. The guy who wins the election for Ohio’s next governor.

Nearly everyone on this site seems to support the Second Amendment (the right to own and use lawful firearms) but many claim to be Democrats, despite the fact that many leaders of the Democrat party have as their top priority the registration and eventual confiscation of all lawful citizens’s personal firearms.
I have been called a liar and challenged to name any leading Democrat who has made it a top priority to register and confiscate legally owned firearms. I will start with Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstien of California who publically stated (and I quote) …"Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them all in". She is strongly supported in this by Democrat Senators Ted Kennedy, Charles Schumer, Frank Lautenberg, Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton and others. Bill Clinton was the most anti-gun president in American history.
Confiscation HAS followed registration of lawful firearms in many countries, including the UK, Canada and Australia in recent years. California has already declared illegal and confiscated firearms, including the old 10-round semi-automatic SKS rifle, that it had specifically told law-abiding people moving into California that they could continue to own.
The weapons that the Democrat Senators, named above, attempted to make illegal by defining them as "assault weapons" included anything with two features such as a bayonet lug, a threaded muzzle, a pistol grip, or a magazine holding 10 rounds, which would have made many old military-type hunting rifles illegal. Kennedy and Schumer tried to make any cartridge capable of piercing a Kevlar vest illegal, which would have made EVERY hunting rifle illegal. Schumer tried to put a 1000% tax on all ammunition.
To "Tony A": Nobody is "screaming Waco" or "Ruby Ridge", although Janet Reno and Louis Freeh under the Clinton administration did shoot to kill and DID accidentally kill Randy Weaver’s wife at Ruby Ridge, after entrapping Weaver into the alleged "felony" of shortening a gunbarrel for them as a favor, and then had the court give him a bogus trial date that he would miss, enabling them to hunt him down. This was done so they could force him to provide information on another person. They didn’t WANT Weaver.

As for Koresh, he was a nutcase breaking the law, but Janet Reno and Louis Freeh managed to accidentally burn all of his people to death. By the way, there were ten empty special "FBI only" shell cases found in the bunker where sniper Lon Horiuchi (same man who killed Weaver’s wife) was stationed, but the FBI said they never fired a shot. Interesting.

For facts on registration/confiscation, see "2006 Firearms Facts" at nra.com., the best source available anywhere.

Can you imagine that? HIllary has always indicated she intends on running again in 2012. And Sarah just might be the next Vice-President in this year’s election. And we all know that many VP’s eventually run for President. Can anyone envision that scenario?

My father identified himself as a conservative Democrat, then as an Independent. He is a blue-collared worker since he runs the production line at his work who is part of the Teamster’s Union, so he votes for the candidates that most support unions. He says he voted for Reagan when he ran for President because of how crappy of a President Jimmy Carter was, so Reagan was one of the only alternatives. He says that he thinks JFK, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton were good Presidents, even though they had different political stances.

Or will they stay calm in the face of humiliation and overwhelming electoral defeat, despite believing they’d win?

I mean, Clinton had a lower approval rating than Obama does now and won re-election.

Nearly everyone on this site seems to support the Second Amendment (the right to own and use lawful firearms) but many claim to be Democrats, despite the fact that many leaders of the Democrat party have as their top priority the registration and eventual confiscation of all lawful citizens’s personal firearms.
My question has nothing to do with Dick Cheney’s hunting accident.
I do not believe and did not state that all who vote Democrat want to confiscate legal firearms. However, this is and has been a very high priority of Democrat Senators Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer, Charles Schumer, John Kerry, Dianne Feinstien and others. Dianne Feinstien once said, and I quote …."Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them all in". Washinton, D.C. and New York City (both Democrat strongholds) have long ago declared many personal firearms illegal and the State of California (another) is beginning to do the same.

Let me ask you, before 2008 did anyone outside of Chicago know who Barack Obama was?

Right now the GOP is focused on election of this year, 2012 is still far ahead in the road so we could come up with serious candidate,

So don’t celebrate libbies, Obama could lose and the liberal dream of having a one party rule just like Soviet Russia and have the DEMONcrat party govern the U.S could be shattered.

If you vote Democrat only because your family always has, then your vote is a waste. Use your vote in a way that actually helps the country! VOTE CONSERVATIVE in 2010!
No intelligent answers so far, still waiting. All liberal drones!

Excluding emotional attachment, popularity, and political affiliation name 2 people who would make excellent competitors for 2012 election?

An Ex. Ron Paul (R) vs Hillary Clinton (D)

Provide a logical sound reason why you would choose that person for each party.

I just recently became interested in politics and I really want to define what I am. What are the fundamental beliefs of each party? What makes you a dem/rep? Is it age, social class? If your poor does that automatically make you a democrat or vice versa?
Thanks.

Oh and I don’t want to start a political debate or anything. Just want to get some facts.