lobbies, israeli lobby, aarp, they are all big time they played both sides, governor. they say anybody can play this game. you help us back our positions and we re going to play ball with you but these nra guys have said, no, we like one side of this fight. we re going to go with the conservatives. and it may work. it s working now. well, it s working in the short run. i think it s going to fail in the long run, chris. but think about this. this is an issue that a decade ago the nra supported universal background checks. there s been no difference in those ten years. this bill is actually a better bill, from their perspective, than the legislation they supported ten years ago. so they are on very, very shaky grounds and aligning themselves with one party and joy is right, the biggest problem that the republican party has, forget the nra, they took positions all last year that were totally out of the mainstream of america and here s an issue where the republican party is doing a vic
i was just thinking i almost feel like the right is suffering from like a political version of body dismorphic disorder. they re dancing in the end zone thinking this is awesome, we defeated the most hated president, but the rest of the country is looking at them thinking, wow, these guys are nuts and the problems the nra has now is that their power used to be in that they were that ed rendell was sim pat cal with them or harry reid, that bipartisan power allowed them to say what we re asking for isn t partisan. it is a broad position in the middle. but now, they re associating themselves with the far, far right, the people independents look at and think they are insane. you really think that s going to hurt? i think of the other strong lobbies, israeli lobby, the a aarp, they play both sides. they say anybody can play this game. you help us back our positions