Most likely. From the National Journal blog:
The six men vying to lead the Republican Party out of the era of a botched war tried today to outgun each other, quite literally, during a 90-minute debate sponsored by Americans for Tax Reform.
When moderator Grover Norquist asked how many firearms the candidates own, the current RNC chairman, Mike Duncan, who despite presiding over his party’s 2008 electoral trouncing is reapplying for his job, noted proudly that he claims four handguns and two rifles.
Rival Katon Dawson, chairman of the South Carolina GOP, said that he has “too many to count.”
Former OH Secretary of State Ken Blackwell was willing to count. Seven, he said, adding: “And I’m good.”
MI GOP chairman Saul Anuzis said he has two guns, but in case the RNC’s 168 committee members, who will vote this month for the next party chairman, wanted to verify his stash, Anuzis said, perhaps only half jokingly, that he is not allowed to carry them in Washington.
Chip Saltsman, who managed Mike Huckabee’s presidential campaign, offered up a list so long it was hard to track the pistol persuasion.
And GOPAC head Michael Steele, a one-term lieutenant governor of blue state MD, was the only man on the panel to say that he hasn’t a single firearm.
It should be noted, though, that as Lt. Governor of Maryland, Michael Steele was very supportive of gun rights and was against gun control.
Jennifer Skalka, the author of the blog post, expresses scorn for the responses (and possibly the question) as well as the responses to other questions at the National Press Club debate that addressed abortion, school choice, etc. She says it smacks of “trading in the rhetoric of old.”
Well, so be it. Those are important issues to some. Gun rights certainly is, to me.
The just past election was won by Democrats because for the last eight years, Republicans in Congress sucked, President Bush sucked, John McCain sucked, the war in Iraq was unpopular, and the economy was a mess. Most voters could care less about lessor issues that folks like me fret about.
If Democrats and Obama rule from the left, 2010 will see a reversal as it did in 1994.






