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A question for ANY GOP Presidential campaign out there…

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 5th, 2012 at 11:54 AM  | 

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…why are none of them talking about Operation Fast & Furious? And when I say ‘talk’ I mean ‘bringing it up at every opportunity, complete with raised voices and angry tones.’

Seriously. This is an easy issue to be on the right side of: everyone agrees – now – that it’s bad to create a sting operation where you facilitate the running of guns to Mexican narco-terrorists without proper safeguards (or indeed any safeguards at all); everyone agrees that it’s bad when guns that you’ve facilitated turn up at the murder scene of a US Border Agent; and while everyone may not agree that Attorney General Eric Holder is either a blithering incompetent or a malignantly corrupt callous bureaucrat, certainly virtually anybody who will be voting in the Republican primaries does.  As Mark Hemingway notes here: this should be a slam-dunk issue for a Republican candidate.  Particularly one who, I don’t know, might want to shore up his conservative credentials?

Hint, hint.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

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  • civildebate

    (nt)

  • NeoKong

    That’s what I call red meat.

    While they’re at it maybe they could mention Border Patrol Agent Jesus E. Diaz Jr. who got a two year sentence for lifting the arms of a cuffed teenage drug mule during an arrest.
    That would throw a little chum in the water for the border states.
    If candidates are serious about immigration then let them stick up for the hard working men and women of the U.S. Border Patrol.

    Issues like those two are nothing but free swings at the pi?ata of hot button issues. Angry voters turn out.
    Newt tapped into some anger in S. Carolina and it gave him an easy win.
    People are mad and capturing that anger is good strategy.
    It’s a no brainer.

  • votemout2012

    Candidates can never start to early taking opportunity to point out Obama failures. Obama’s approval numbers have been going up. Candidates need to concentrate on real enemy Obama.

  • renl57

    In his victory speech last nite, Romney strongly attacked Obama.

    In his press conference last nite, Gingrich strongly attacked
    Romney.

    In his own statements last nite, Santorum strongly attacked Romney and Gingrich.

  • waitaminute

    Sorry, I can’t help laughing. I just figured after Christian Sanchez’s testimony last summer people might finally clue in what an oxymoron the phrase “hard working men and women of the U.S. Border Patrol” is.

    I mean, people like me who actually have to cross that border on a regular basis already knew how ridiculous that is. I guess I was hoping the rest of you had clued in by now.

  • paladin1

    and you have not been able to make much headway nationally with the conservative base, and you have a terrible record of 2nd Amendment issues, AND at the same time you want to light a fire under Obama and the criminal administration he harbors, why would you not jump on this with both feet?

    To conservatives who take the 2nd Amendment seriously, and to voters who think you are just another lightweight moderate, and to everyone who is appalled that the administration’s stupidity got an American officer and who knows how many innocent Mexican nationals killed, this issue could be something which could really inspire your voting public or show them you are really serious about your conservative bona fides.

  • veritaseequitas

    sniping at each other and only stating the most obvious disastrous and obnoxious things about the miserable Obama administration. During the general they are going to have to ramp up and pound Obama into the sand over Fast & Furious and the Catholic thing (and Obamacare in general), as well as keeping the pressure on him about his lousing up the economy, crony capitalism, his massive mishandling of foreign policy and his sneering callousness regarding his and his Frankenstein Bride’s vacationing excesses.
    Everyone is swooning now over the drop in unemployment, but I believe that will be short lived and The Communist is going to have a lot of splainin’ to do later on this year.

  • znjs

    The only thing I can think of is if you raised this issue then you’d almost be forced to go after Holder legally if you were elected, and if you do that there’s probably a better chance the Obama administration goes after some of the illegal actions (wiretapping) that happened during the Bush administration. Obama was very careful not to initiate legal proceedings against the Bush administration despite much of his base really really wanting him to. Make there’s an agreement there. I’m hoping that’s not what’s stopping them, but it’s a possibility.

  • clintonformccain

    Like vaccinations. And community college tuition in Texas. And, who the candidates voted for in primaries 20 years ago.

    One of the real disappointing things about the Republican race to date has been the focus on nonsense issues while ignoring obvious winning issues ( like, “it’s the economy, stupid!”)

  • NeoKong

    Go troll on someone else.
    Try someone who thinks you are interesting and not a clown.

    If you need a friend go buy a dog.

  • Tbone

    when they had the chance. Those are the people that make me puke.

  • bzip

    Funny you bring this up. I just got done writing a blog post dealing with commentators/pundits and the role they play. I write about this very issues, HPV the tuition issue and relate it back to people like Malkin and Erickson;

    The Present and Future Role of Conservative Commentators
    http://teaandfedup.wordpress.com/2012/02/05/the-present-and-future-role-of-conservative-commentators/

  • carolynr

    Agree with Tbone…Why was this not a debate topic? Are our candidates not interested in the 2nd amendment? Or…more to the point…gun running and murder by a cabinet member. Oh…but wait a minute…that is not politically correct.

    Expect a lot of that BS from Romney…PC Talk

  • hdandy

    is that it appears that it was a wrong-headed policy with the worthy goal of catching the bad guys. The cover-up/perjury is another matter- but still, without greed, self-agrandizement etc as a motive, it is hard to get real traction. I know some have suggested that this was an orchestrated attack on the 2nd amendment- don’t know if I am buying that.

  • paladin1

    laugh at this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=q0jTJq_VfS8

  • johnt

    It’s so unseemly, plus they might be excoriated by the Times, or maybe all the mikes would go dead. A few choice words of abuse directed to the most abominable AG in history wouldn’t hurt, tied in with F & F and the moutanin of other trash he and Obama trail behind their tails.

  • pttx333

    This should be your beautiful video … thank you for posting it, sir.

  • paladin1

    for doing this. I am not very adept with computer things. That comment just got my dander up a bit!

  • http://punditpawn.wordpress.com punditpawn

    There was no honor or good intentions here. This was a clear political effort to ratchet up violence on the border so they could swoop in with stricter gun control laws. There are emails to that effect that have already been revealed and not reported on by the press.

  • hdandy

    e-mails. How do we know they exist?

  • pttx333

    with posting the video – of course, I watched it first. ;-) I do not know how anyone could see it without tears flowing … the pipes playing “Amazing Grace” always brings me to my knees, not to mention the significance of the whole video. Just beautiful!

    I’ll help you any time I can, paladin – no problem at all.

  • civildebate

    The masses aren’t going to buy that, especially since Dems haven’t touched any second amendment issues in over a decade.

  • mediaproofyourvote

    Clinton took credit for the improving economy a Republican congress gave him, so why wouldn’t Obama try and take credit for the improving economy the Republican congress caused by stopping STIMULUS II.

    Even the media knows the truth behind this one press them on it.

  • downstateray

    fast & furious solyndra etc are all best left for the general election

  • Adjoran

    It’s in November – unless Obama decides the traditional date would inconvenience unions, abortion providers, or OWS protests.

    Congress is more able to investigate when we keep it OUT of the political headlines. It would give Obama and Holder a reason to continue to stonewall – “this is purely politics” – even more. Let’s see what facts subpoenas and congressional testimony and FOIA requests can bring out before we decide HOW to make it an issue.

    Besides, if the big bombs are going to drop, isn’t better they drop in September or October?

  • edintexas

    Romney has little work left to do in seeking the nomination which belongs to him. All he needs to do is act like he’s already the nominee, the MSM will do the work for him – until he is the nominee.

  • Juggernaut

    considering elections have a way of putting the heat on presidents. We did see a document dump recently but clearly the candidates for potus, senate and house need to throw fuel on the fire.

    Remember the Iran-Contra Affair? Dem candidates were all over that one and then some. Use the debates and press conferences as well as townhall events.

  • waitaminute

    If you think raising alternative viewpoints is trolling, I’ve got some news for you… you may be a liberal.

    But really, if you’re that afraid of ideas that disagree with yours, why do you have a blog again?

  • waitaminute

    What happened to Brian Terry was a tragedy, there’s no question about it. But having a tragedy happen to one member of a group doesn’t somehow make the rest of that group “hard working,” or suddenly make them more deserving of respect.

    If this video moves you, good. Use that emotion to memorialize Brian Terry. But don’t misapply that emotion to create some blanket excuse for everyone who wears the same uniform Brian did.

    The fact is, the Border Patrol in its current form, using the methods it currently uses, is a gross violation of the constitution and individual liberty, two things conservatives usually stand up for without question. Just try and cross the border (legally!) and you’ll see. All pretentions of “innocent until proven guilty” go out the window. American citizen or no, you have NO Fourth Amendment rights when you try to cross the border into your own country. The act of crossing a border is seen as suspicion enough to perform whatever arbitrary searches the agent on duty happens to deem necessary.

    We would never accept such behavior from actual police in our own communities, but if it happens at the border, most Americans don’t care. They don’t have to cross the border, they don’t live anywhere near it. Those of us who do, and who have to cross that border on a regular basis, wish the rest of you would actually open your eyes.

    If it’s easier for you to hide behind name-calling, fine. Just realize that you are part of the problem, and that your support is used to strip Americans of their constitutional rights on a daily basis. Congratulations.

  • pttx333

    b