republicans giving advice to democrats

Offhand I don't think any dem presidential candidate has threatened to come after Old Betsy.  Even so Beagles still feels that they will, so I don't know that the promise of any democrat is going to move him.  Opinion pieces like the one Beagles has cited, are as common as fleas in an election season.  Dems giving advice to reps on who they should nominate, and reps advising dems on who to nominate.  Despite this sage advice dems always go for the person the members of their parties want and reps go for the person their party wants.  

The other posting is kind of more of the same.  Actually I don't know if Beagles backs that or not, all he says is what do I think about that, referring I think to the fact that it comes from Fox and is kind of moderate.  The guy seems to be going for red flags and background checks which I don't think Beagles is for under his theory that giving up an inch brings those awful dems an inch closer to taking away Old Betsy.  Actually I think the guy recommends reasonable red flags and background checks which means something toothless.  Not that it matters because none of this is going to happen while the reps are in power.  Trump is not going to follow through on giving up anything on gun control and the reps are going to go along with whatever he says.

The one thing I agree with the guy about is that the dems shouldn't toss around the term racism the way that they do, it might be true in a certain contexts, but what does it accomplish?  I note that he wants us to give that up, but I also note that he says not a word about Trump moderating his rants, so what kind of deal is that.  

There is much discussion in democratic circles about what to offer the guys at Joe's bait shop in order to get their votes but there is no republican circle that discusses what to offer the guys clicky clacking at Starbucks to win their vote.

Trump doesn't have much to gain by proposing anything reasonable on gun control because reasonable people are not going to vote for him anyway.  Some of the reps in purple districts or states could help their chances by coming out for background checks or red flags but they don't dare do so because some Trump guy will challenge them in the primary, so that's another thing working in the dem's favor,  And that's a good thing.

I'll have a couple Hoosiers staying here the next couple days, I probably won't be posting again until Thursday.