""This is going to help us...We can move the race a couple of points." [View all]

[Atypical Liberal]

http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-hints-at-handgun-restrictions-too/article/2510993#.UIAxpIbyZI0

"Keene said that Obama's statement was a "strategic error on his part" because it blew up the president's pro-Second Amendment rhetoric. "He knows it's politically dangerous to take on the Second Amendment," said Keene.

"We have credibility when we say that Barack Obama is a threat to your rights. But that credibility is obviously enhanced 10-fold when Barack Obama, in a moment of weakness, says, 'Yeah, as a matter of fact I am.' And that's what he did," said Keene. "This is going to help us."

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"We can move the race a couple of points," said Keene."

This is why endorsing an anti-gun position is a bad move. It hurts our chances of re-electing President Obama. In races as close as they always seem to end up being, we cannot afford a couple of points.

Gun control is bad politics.