Huckabee Asks Romney For Explanation On Second Amendment
January 25, 2008
I watched the republican debates last night from Boca Raton, Florida. The debate – well, that’s using the term very loosely – was hosted by MSNBC and the two main question askers were Brian Williams and Tim Russert……..yawn! Not that I want to see what happened between Clinton and Obama, but these guys acted more like best buddies. I have been told it was orchestrated that way.
It was quite obvious that the focus of the questions were directed at Romney, Giuliani and McCain. Once in a while a question would be tossed over to Mike Huckabee and then there was this other guy…..er…..oh,man……what was his name? Oh, yeah, Ron Paul. Even the television cameras spent most of their time focusing on Romney, McCain and Guiliani, who were gathered on the left side of the stage to the viewers, with Huckabee to the far right and then that other guy.
There was one part of the “talk show” when the candidates got to ask a fellow candidate a question. The closest any of them came to actually challenging someone for a tough answer, was when Mike Huckabee picked on Mitt Romney and asked him essentially to explain to the people, what his real position was on the Second Amendment.
It’s a bit confusing to fully understand Mitt Romney’s position on the right to keep and bear arms, along with Giuliani’s. He first made the statement that he believed in the Second Amendment. He said he believed it was an individual right to keep and bear arms and that he hoped the Supreme Court would rule accordingly – referring of course to the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case of District of Columbia versus Heller, the D.C. gun ban case.
Taking into consideration the usual political campaign rhetoric, one could say, “Well, all right! That sounds good.” Of course if you are a supporter of gun rights. But Huckabee called Romney out on his claim that he voted for and supported the assault weapons ban and claimed that Romney publicly stated he would support a renewing of the so-called assault weapons ban.
This is where is gets a bit sticky, in my opinion. Romney in the past has used a similar tactic in explaining his positions on gay rights and abortion. He continues to say that he believes one way but was willing to make compromises in order to move forward.
What was interesting is that Romney finished his comment period by stating more than once that he would not support any new legislation on assault weapons bans. We don’t know what he would do concerning other legislation for gun control.
It’s a politician’s most used tactic to never answer a question directly. Romney is no different than the rest. In fairness to Romney, he was never really asked a direct question about Second Amendment issues. This was the closest he came in referring to the ban on assault weapons.
In short, your guess is as good as mine as to what Romney’s real position is on the right to own a gun. What bothers me is this continual rearing of his “willingness to compromise”. I think he’s an intelligent, articulate man that has a fantastic business mind.
That, I guess, was the highlight of the evening with the exception of one other time. Tim Russert was asking Huckabee about his proposed Fair Tax plan, a plan that essentially would shut down the IRS (I was salivating). While making an attempt to answer the question, Russert interrupted him, making the comment that such a plan was unlikely to happen. At this point Huckabee stopped and looked right at Russert and told him that attitudes like his had to stop. We had to stop with all the reasons why something significant like this couldn’t be done and begin finding reasons why it should.
Russert clammed up and it was a bright moment for Mike Huckabee.
Struggling to keep my eyes open through this heated “talk show”, I headed off to bed no further convinced as to who I would cast a ballot for next Tuesday.
Tom Remington
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