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Mitt Romney affirms 2nd Amendment does not cover rocket launchers
Still trying to wiggle into his new right-wing digs, Mitt Romney took a boldly awkward stand in response to Mike Huckabee questioning Romney’s commitment to the 2nd Amendment.
In an email to supporters, Romney affirmed his support of legally owned semi-automatic weapons like AK-47s. Mitt drew the line at “weapons of unusual lethality like grenades, rocket launchers, fully automatic firearms and what are legally known as destructive devices,” and would further oppose any new “exotic weapons.” Kinky.
Now the question is: Will Ron Paul say rocket launchers are protected under the 2nd Amendment?
TinyURL Supports Ron Paul - Here's some alternatives
If you venture over to TinyURL, you’ll notice something slightly different about their website. There’s a small graphic in the top right with Ron Paul’s face, with the text “We Support Ron Paul.” Clicking on the image brings you to Paul’s presidential campaign’s website.
Does that not sit well? Do you want your abbreviated URLs to come from a site that doesn’t want to abolish the IRS and pretty much all of the federal government?
Some of the more popular alternatives are:
» urlTea – dead simple replica of TinyURL’s service.
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Still not enough? Here’s a directory of 100 similar websites. Pick your poison.
For more on the ideology of Ron Paul, read this takedown of his record in Congress, and then read Glenn Greenwald’s rebuttal.
And for the record, I don’t agree with Ron Paul ideologically, but I support his campaign, albeit a quixotic one.
Why is that Ron Paul is the candidate who most consistently makes sense to me? Watch this video.
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