The West is Best (26 years on the east-coast; 30 years on the west-coast)!

The current problem with the Democrats is that they don't know how to create a message and stick to it. The point of westerners being concerned with their civil liberties, I think, is where Democrats should be focused. Especially if you frame the argument of the Second Amendment as a civil liberty to could easily be in jeopardy in the interest of National Security.

No Republican would ever do that because that wouldn't be playing to their base. But if Liberals and Progressives can be targeted as Cut n Runners. Why can't we be asking about how far Conservatives will go to "protect" us.

Americans are a generally selfish people (me, myself, my family, my community, etc). John Edwards was the closest one to realizing that, if you make the message about the people and less about the issues or the other candidates, then they will listen to you. Instead people would rather monkey sh** tossing fights that these debates and our process has become. Its only that way because we allow it to be.