{"id":3349,"date":"2008-09-22T07:24:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T12:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2008-09-22T07:38:35","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T12:38:35","slug":"plastic-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3349","title":{"rendered":"Plastic Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you work for conservative causes, you get used to dealing with left-leaning “astroturf” groups. Second Amendment issues are a big magnet; while the NRA musters over three million actual Americans of all political stripes, “The Brady Campaign” and the “Violence Policy Institute” muster thin little films of people – even though an NRA membership is a non-trivial $50 (as I recall), and the “Brady Campaign” last I checked was $15. Locally, it’s even worse. While Concealed Carry Reform Now would muster hundreds to come to legislative Citizens for a Supine <\/strike>“Safer” Minnesota has roughly two “members” (who are, I think, also paid staffers) and can maybe drag a dozen people to a really <\/em>important hearing, and would be a complete non-entity in politics in a rational world.<\/p>\n

Which is a world the anti-gun movement doesn’t know well.<\/p>\n

Astroturf is everywhere, though, especially when issues are emotional. Like, say, uppity broads who should be home with their kids upending political messiahs.<\/p>\n

And boy, is it sweet<\/a> when you find it:<\/p>\n

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