RobertNashville

You caught yourself a good one...like most guys, it sounds like you got the best end of the marriage deal.

We need a fence that separates California from the rest of the country at least a much as we need one on the border with Mexico.

I agree that it would be nice to have a source on this. Assuming it's true, it might not be so bad...at least we'll know where all the illegals are when this country finally grows a pair and deports them back to wherever they came from.

What occasion were they supposed to rise to? One of the Tea Party favorites is on the ticket. If you mean we need the Tea Party movement to become another political party then I pray to God that never happens.

There most certainly was a controversy...a group of rabid Paulbots who were willing to flaunt their state election laws and threatened to cast their delegate votes for Ron Paul rather than the primary's winning candidate, Mitt Romney. That was the imputus for the entire affair. This rule change doesn't impact anybody except third-tier candidate supporters who want to exercise more control than the election results provide.As to losing Paubot votes; first, you are assuming Mitt was going to get them anyway. Second, how many dozens of times if not hundreds of times have Paul supporters claimed that not voting at all or writing in Ron Paul or voting for third-party wasn't going to help Obama - either their not voting for Mitt hurts Mitt and helps Obama or it doesn't so which is it? The libertarians have their own party - why do they feel they need to control the Republican party as well???

Just to show what kind of company CrossBread Holsters is; about two weeks ago I sent in a damaged SuperTuck holster for repair. I had shifted to off-body carry and left the holster inside of my SUV on one of the very, very hot days we had a few weeks ago and the kydex had actually melted and lost all its shape. I mailed to to them along with a letter explaining what had happened and in less than two weeks they sent me, not a "repaired" holster but a brand new one at no change. It's too bad more companies can't learn that kind of customer service but I will say, exceptional customer service seems to be the "norm" with many companies in the firearms industry as compared to any other segement.

Here is, perhaps, a related question. For semi auto weapons (I'm mostly thinking about pistols including 1911s, Glocks, etc but applies to semi-auto rifles too)...do people recommend keeping the slide or bolt open (and therefore, spring compressed) when in your safe or do you guys think it best to keep the action/slide closed? I've gone back and forth on this myself and would appreciate your input.

Absolutely correct and what a shame that more people don't realize it.

There are plenty of substantial differences between the parties; one only has to look at the two platforms to see that. Of course, those who don't want to see the difference won't see them. The problem is that there are too many Republicans who are politicians and power-grabbers and RINOs who hold and want to hold onto power...they are being replaced by men and women of principle who truly want to move the country back to its roots. But I guess some thing that everything works on a microwave schedule so when they don't get their way immediately they decide all is lost. We have an excellent choice to replace Obama; Romney and Ryan is, I believe, exactly what the country needs right now because unless the Federal government gets its spending and taxes and debt under control all those other "rights" and liberties and freedoms that people hold dear and argue about here will be absolutely meaningless; buried under massive unemployment, worthless currency and civil unrest. Obama will send this country into financial oblivion...Ron Paul or Gary Johnson or any other meaningless write-in/third party candidate will not and cannot win. P.S. Making fun of someone's religion with the "magic underwear" comment is distasteful, insulting and pathetic.

The salient point is that candidates like Ran Paul and many others like him who support "Tea Party" values such as small government; low taxes, fair taxes and government limited by the Constitution ARE running and ARE getting elected in spite of the wishes of (and sometimes in spite of outright opposition from) the Republican establishment. That's how you make a difference...that's how you get things changed...we don't need to reinvent the wheel by establishing a new, tiny, ineffective party.

Now that's an interesting idea - a ban on political topics from the "Politics and Legislation" forum which is a sub-forum of the "Legal and Political" topic group on TGO. That sort of defeats the purpose of the section doesn't it?

I don't know that he is driving this particular effort; he's mentioned in the article and I suspect he is in favor of it (of course, he would likely rather that all weapons be confiscated except the one's his security forces carry. )

Yeah...I'm just stunned; aren't you?This guy has also appeared on Alex Jones...that alone makes anything he has to say suspect. But maybe he's right; after all, we all know how successful new political parties have been don't we???

I would assume that any bad guy smart enough to know or care about the microstamping could overcome it simply by replacing the firing pin (since that is what gets "stamped" if I understand the process correctly). I would love one of these idiot gun-haters to try and explain why a crook who almost certainly stole the weapon or bought it illegally after it was stolen by someone else is going to care about microstamping that may lead police back to the original, legal owner.

There is nothing wrong with the Republican party that good candidates won't fix.

While I hate to punish current employees; if Bloomingidiot and his ilk are stupid enough to move forward with this stuff than it would serve NY right to lose these companies (and their tax revenues). http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/28/microstamping-legislation-may-lead-remington-colt-to-relocate/?intcmp=obnetwork

Amen and +1

There is another "historical precedent" at play here that cannot be ignored except at risk of the destruction of the country and that is a complete and utter financial collapse which, without huge and major changes in direction, will overtake us. We don't have time for a third party to get a foothold...I don't even know if we have time to avoid it at all because any one card falling in the house of cards we've built will be all it takes...if interest rates were just at their average rates right now even servicing the existing debt would be unmanageable let alone the $Trillion annual deficits projected going forward as far as anyone has looked. What I do know is that voting for anyone other than Romney/Ryan will do nothing to unseat Obama and an Obama second term will seal our financial fate because Obama is so totally out of his depth and so totally focused on his socialists principles that he will never see the cliff until he is at the bottom of it along with what was once a great country.

GOP Commits Suicide By Nominating Romney and Ignoring Ron Paul? Really??? Ridiculous. Committing suicide would have been cow-towing to Ron Paul, a man who after a very unsuccessful bid for President as the Libertarian and two utter unsuccessful bids to win the Republican nomination is still trying to play his own game instead of accept defeat the way a true leader does. Although, Ron Paul is much more of a class act that many of the Paulbots. Ron Paul has been seen by the public for many years and he has been rejected, soundly rejected at that. He is no friend of the Republican party (and I believe he used the Republican only as a tool to advance his personal goals) and ignoring him is the only reasonable thing for the Republican party to do.

We don't need a "Tea Party" political party nor any other third or fourth or fifth party...the Tea Party is a movement attempting to push the country toward smaller government, less/fair taxes and the Constitution. If it wants to be effective it needs to keep doing what it's been doing which is identifying and encouraging good people to run for office and then winning their elections. If they become another political party they'll be no more effective than the Libertarian or the Green or any other small group.

I don't really give a damn about the party but I've looked at this; all I see is an attempt to allow the winning candidate in a primary to pick and have control over who his delegates are at the convention - seems only logical to me and I don't see any way that this harms "grassroots" efforts unless such efforts wanted to circumvent what the voters in a state voted for (by substituting a losing candidates supporters for the winner's).If conservatives or libertarians or the religious right or any other subgroup who identify with the Republican party want to steer the party in a particular direction then they have to run and support appropriate candidates and win.

You just can't make this stuff up. Link: http://www.guns.com/california-bb-gun-law-10783.html

How about we dispense with the hypotheticals and just consider that a political party should be able to control its own operation as it sees fit???

So, I'm operating in "my own ignorance" but you mean no disrespect? I can't help but wonder what you would have said if you did mean to be disrespectful.I've read the rule changes; I don't see this as some horrible impediment to grassroots movements - I understand just fine, I simply don't agree with you.

Labels like RINO's aside, it should be up to the party to decide how that party runs its nomination process and convention.