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The last thing we need is another liberal neocon in the White House.
If the Presidency of George W. Bush proved anything, it proved the
hazard of electing phony Republican conservatives. At least one is
able to clearly see a liberal for what he or she is when they have a
"D" behind their name. But put an "R" behind the name and suddenly
their liberal, Big-Government, anti-freedom agenda is barely
recognized, which makes a liberal Republican much more dangerous than
a liberal Democrat.

Let me say it straight out: a John McCain Presidency would be far
worse than a Barack Obama Presidency. With a Democrat in the White
House, conservatives and Christians suddenly find their principles and
are able to offer resistance. Put a Republican in the Oval Office,
however, and those same people become blind, deaf, and dumb to most
any principle they profess.

Nowhere is McCain's chicanery and duplicity more jeopardous than in
the area of the right to keep and bear arms. On issues relating to the
Second Amendment, John McCain is a disaster! For example, the highly
respected Gun Owners of America (GOA) rates McCain with a grade of F-.
McCain's failing grade is well deserved.

John McCain sponsored an amendment to S. 1805 on March 2, 2004 that
would outlaw the private sale of firearms at gun shows. According to
GOA, the provision would effectively eliminate gun shows, because
every member of an organization sponsoring a gun show could be
imprisoned if the organization fails to notify each and every "person
who attends the special firearms event of the requirements [under the
Brady Law]."

John McCain also sponsored an Incumbent Protection provision to the
so-called "Campaign Finance Reform" bill, which severely curtails the
ability of outside groups (such as GOA) to communicate the actions of
incumbent politicians to members and supporters prior to an election.

The GOA report of the 106th Congress reveals that out of 15 votes
relating to the right to keep and bear arms, Senator John McCain voted
favorably only 4 times. Put that into a percentage and McCain's
pro-Second Amendment voting record is a pathetic 27%.

In addition, GOA warns that John McCain supported legislation that
would force federal agents to increase efforts in arresting and
convicting honest gun owners who may inadvertently violate one of the
many federal anti-gun laws, which punish mere technicalities, such as
gun possession.

For example, if John McCain's proposed legislation were to become law,
a gun owner who travels with a gun through a school zone or who uses
one of the family handguns to go target shooting with a 15-year old
could be sent to prison. And a person who uses a gun for self-defense
could be sent to prison for a mandatory minimum of five years.

But there is so much more to the McCain madness.

Former California State Senator H.L. "Bill" Richardson wrote this
about John McCain, "He's [McCain's] proven his dislike for
conservatives and would gut us at every opportunity.

"Why do I say that? Because of three decades of experience as a
Republican California Senator and a fifty year activist in the
conservative movement. I have first hand, in-their-face experience
with elitist RINO's (Republican in Name Only) office holders. They are
biblically ignorant, power hungry, status seeking egotists who have no
difficulty aiding their liberal Democrat colleagues whenever their
arms are politely twisted. The one thing they have in common with
liberal Democrats is their dislike for all conservatives, especially
those who are Bible-believing. McCain, as president, would stifle the
voices of elected Republican leaders and try to legislate the
conservative movement out of existence."

Senator Richardson went on to say that he would in no way vote for
John McCain, if indeed McCain is the Republican nominee (which he
obviously will be).

I wonder how many gun owners and other professing pro-freedom
Americans have already fallen victim to McCain's phony conservative
campaign? Do they not realize that they are giving a rope to the
hangman? And that they--conservatives and gun owners--are the ones who
McCain will send to the gallows? What is wrong with the American
people these days? Have they not been betrayed enough by these phony
conservative Republicans?

For example, President George W. Bush recently nominated Michael
Sullivan to be Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms,
and Explosives. Sullivan is one of the nation's most rabid
anti-gunners. GOA's Larry Pratt describes Sullivan as being "as
anti-gun as Ted Kennedy." Honest gun owners, lawful firearms dealers,
and law-abiding gun show operators could have no worse enemy within
the federal government than Michael Sullivan. We could expect no worse
from Hillary Clinton. And a John McCain Presidency would doubtless
give us more of the same.

Regarding the Second Amendment, the American people have no better
friend than Ron Paul. He has a 20-year proven track record of fidelity
to the right to keep and bear arms. The GOA rates Congressman Paul
with a grade of A+. According to GOA Executive Director Larry Pratt,
Ron Paul has been a leader in the fight to defend and restore the
Second Amendment. He has sponsored legislation to repeal the
following: the Brady law; the requirement to lock up your guns; the
law permitting the U.S. to be part of the U.N (which, among other
attacks on American freedoms, seeks to ban privately transferred
firearms); participation in UNESCO; federal prohibitions on any pilot
wishing to carry a handgun to and in his cockpit; and the so-called
"assault weapons" ban (prior to its sunsetting in 2004).

Ron Paul has also sponsored legislation requiring states to treat the
concealed carry permit of one state the same as they do that state's
driver's license. Dr. Paul also opposes a national ID card, which
would be a tool of government to identify gun ownership.

Gun owners (along with conservatives and Christians of all sorts)
should be ashamed of themselves for allowing an angry, gun-grabbing
liberal such as John McCain to become the presumptive Republican
Presidential nominee, while rejecting the candidacy of one of
America's most principled pro-life, pro-Second Amendment,
pro-Constitution, and pro-freedom legislators of this generation:
Congressman Ron Paul.

I say again, the last thing we need is another liberal neocon in the
White House. John McCain may have an "R" behind his name, but he is
just another establishment liberal: one America cannot afford.

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