First Ben Carson starts caving on ObamaCare, and now Bobby Jindal is touting and trying to export his gun-grabbing - looks like Tea Party favorites are RINOizing like a plague:
In the wake of the deadly Lafayette, Louisiana, movie-theater shooting spree, Gov. Bobby Jindal — a National Rifle Association favorite who is seeking the Republican nomination for president — is calling for tougher gun laws.
On CBS' Face the Nation on Sunday, Jindal said States should look to Louisiana as a beacon when it comes to ensuring that people with a history of mental illness and/or criminal records are reported to the appropriate authorities.
"In Louisiana, we toughened our laws a couple of years ago," Jindal said, according to the New York Times. "If he had been involuntarily committed here, if he had tried to buy that gun here, he wouldn’t have been allowed to do that.
"Look, every time this happens, it seems like the person has a history of mental illness. We need to make sure the systems we have in place actually work."
Yes, yes, I know, "commonsense gun laws" and "crazy people should be allowed to get and own guns," and "The Bill of Rights isn't supposed to apply to the States," so if a State wants to have suffocating gun laws, they are supposed to be constitutionally free as the wind to do so. But we know how elastic Barack Obama's definition of "crazy" is, and how gun-grabbers will take a mile when only an inch is yielded. Surely Governor Jindal must know that, just as one would also think that he would know how adamantly resistant the GOP base is about yielding anything after so much has already been lost what little is left is in imminent peril and how hostile they are to any pol who holds themselves out as appealing to them for their support and votes only to betray them once those commodities are given. Yet here is the "favorite of the NRA" boasting about his State's "tough gun laws" in order to cover his also-ran presidential campaign's backside.
Just like Dr. Carson. It's been quite a morning so far. What's next, Ted Cruz pirouetting on the Export-Import Bank and kissing Mitch McConnell full on the lips before lunch? Rand Paul bringing back the Patriot Act? The mind reels.
Rick Perry - whose also-ran presidential campaign is also floundering - at least knows how to appeal to the GOP base:
Former Texas Governor Rick Perry said Sunday that armed theatergoers could have prevented last week's shooting at a movie theater in Lafayette, La.
"I would suggest that the concept of gun-free zones are a bad idea," the Republican presidential candidate told CNN. "I think that you allow the citizens of this country who have been appropriately trained, appropriately backgrounded and know how to handle and use firearms, to carry them."
Indubitably.
Of course you do realize that this means Governor Jindal has a better chance at the Republican nomination than does Governor Perry. Because Ted Cruz-style "truth-telling" is incompatible with getting elected president of the United States.
Unless you're Scott Walker, anyway.
If only they knew, then maybe they'd get out of Walk's way.
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