DA> To reconcile both of your viewpoints, it means that we've lost
 DA> already. Guy is right in that Dole is anti-gun.  He's voted
 DA> anti-gun, he's spoken publicly about vetoing a repeal of the AW
 DA> ban.  But you are right in that the libertarian candidate has no
 DA> realistic chance of winning.
 DA> The best way that I can personally reconcile a vote for Dole is
 DA> that we'll lose rights more slowly with Dole than we will with
 DA> Clinton.
 DA> We will continue to lose until pro-rights and pro-gun people can
 DA> influence the leadership of a major party, or even BECOME the
 DA> leadership of a major party.  That outcome is possible, but in my
 DA> opinion, improbable.
 
Which is pretty much what I have been trying to say.
 
Our enemies grasped and used alliances and incrementalism to get us to this 
point and we've been unable to do the same all this time. The current 
shouting match is just a continuation of an old ill. 
 
United we could have stood...
 
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