Was I ever really a serious analyst?  Not really, but according to Hugh Hewitt any statement that doesn't rhetorically fellate Mitt Romney is to be dismissed out of hand immediately, and I'm about to criticize ol' Mitt. 

I think he just ate it here.  Big-time.  You read that transcript, his support of the Spooky Looking Weapons Ban and the squirming he engaged in, his squishiness on immigration, and the tearful moment, and you know he just fucked up big. 

Most notably is his absolutely wretched position on gun ownership and the Second Amendment, if he's gonna flip-flop on everything else, why not go all the way?  Hell, even the Democrats are treading lightly with regards to Second Amendment, gun control is a losing issue.  But I think I know why...

I've long held the view that Mitt was the suburbanite/yuppie candidate, which is why he doesn't support guns, let's be honest, yuppies and suburbanites just aren't big gun people, they mostly care about money, and Mitt's a money guy.  They aren't generally hunters, they live in idyllic, secluded cookie cutter developments that have minimal crime, wealth to have good police/security, and most of all, love of safety. 

These people are much more ignorant of firearms because they have no use for them(they think), the only contact they have with them is spastic soccer moms watching hysteria driven reporting on a school shooting, and fretting that their little snowflake is gonna get mowed down by some angry loner kid, they think that banning guns is the way to keep that from happening, its not of course.

The tears are not gonna hurt as bad as when Muskie did it back in the day, but it'll hurt, particularly when you have guys with a tough front like Fred, Rudy, and hell, McCain(even if I don't think he has a snowball's chance).

I think this might dislodge some voters from camp Mitt, I think those could go to both Fred and Huck.  I have to think it helps Fred more, Huck's already got most of the religious cons who abandoned Mitt during the Huckaboom, but we'll see.

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