The problem is, nobody outside of liberal strongholds (shitholes) will vote for democratic candidates. They’ve locked up the illegal alien votes, tried to block voter ID laws, and sued to get gerrymandered districts to favor democrats, but it’s still not enough. One former democratic Congressman has a unique solution to the left’s election woes: let democrats vote in Republican primaries. Making this even more pathetic, this is a liberal “solution” to destroying the NRA and eventually our gun rights.

Patrick Murphy used to be a Republican but says he got fed up with the Tea Party Movement so he became a democrat and ran for the US House in Florida. After two terms he denied to take on Marco Rubio for a US Senate seat and got his ass kicked, so now he just writes nonsense for The Hill, like this piece in which he wants democrats to be able to vote in Republican primaries to help defeat the NRA:

The National Rifle Association’s influence is widely blamed for preventing common-sense gun control measures from moving forward, and if we want to change that, then the American public needs to demand open primaries. Yes, open primaries will begin to mitigate the NRA’s influence because the group’s power is driven by who shows up to vote.

While adults at large may generally support gun control, it sadly does not rank as the top issue for all but a handful of partisans —  on both sides. But the side backed by the NRA has has spent tens of millions in races across the country and it is as energized as can be. And as such, NRA members do show up to vote and wield extreme influence in closed Republican primaries.

So when firearm issues make the news — such as after a shooting, when the imagined threat of gun confiscation makes the rounds on conspiracy-minded social media sites – these voters double-down to ensure their candidates succeed in the next election. Thus in primaries across Florida, politicians must pander to the gun extremists or risk being tossed out of office.

What I’m getting out of this is that Murphy has a problem with two facts: Most people don’t give enough of a shit about gun control to vote in primary elections and people who support the 2nd Amendment do care enough about the issue to vote. He also has a serious issue with people from a certain political party being able to choose who will represent that party in an election.

This is a really dumb idea but if it were implemented it would backfire spectacularly on democrats. If primaries were open, Republicans would vote for the silliest possible democrat to ensure the candidate would lose the general election. I’m being hypothetical here because in reality all democrats are joke candidates who tend not to win most places in the country. I’m just pointing out how open primaries would get trolled by the other side.

Let’s assume open primaries is phase one of the democrats’ plan to return to power and that phase two involves not letting Republicans vote at all. What better way to win elections if the opposition couldn’t put up a candidate or vote in the general election? I still feel like democrats would find a way to lose under this system because they have no message and are really bad at running campaigns. Hillary Clinton is all the proof you need on that.

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Former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal has never been a typical basketball player.

Besides his enormous size and playing key roles on championship teams in two cities, O’Neal has been known to have an affinity for law enforcement that stands out in a league where Black Lives Matter causes are more popular with many players than the cops who keep them safe in their multimillionaire lives.

In an interview this week about the gun control craze sweeping the country after last month’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida, O’Neal set himself apart again. And liberals don’t like it one bit.

“You’ve got a lot of people talking about getting these guns off the streets,” O’Neal said Tuesday on New York radio station WABC.

“The only problem with that is, there’s 15 million of them out there already on the streets. And then another problem is if you ban them, then you’re going to create an underground market, and the gun collectors, you know, it’s going to become more valuable.”

The answer, O’Neal said, isn’t more gun control, it’s more guns protecting kids.

“The government should give law enforcement more money,” he said. “Give more money, you recruit more people, and the guys that are not ready to go on the streets, you put them in front of the schools.

“You put them in front of the schools, you put them behind the schools, you put them inside the schools.”

That might seem like common sense – there are cops outside concerts, sporting events, and anywhere there are large gatherings. But the snowflakes of the American left, in their hyperpolitical response to Parkland, aren’t known for common sense.

And the social media meltdown was almost immediate.

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Actually, Shaq was pretty good at shooting baskets — he’s currently the eighth highest scorer in NBA history, according to the statistics website Statista.

He’s also making a pretty good point here — and most sane people know it.

The real problem for liberals here is that a certified NBA star has gone off their plantation — again. He did it with the NFL’s national anthem protests; he did it with his opinion of President Donald Trump. Now, he’s doing it on school shootings.

O’Neal is a professional basketball player with a well-known respect for the law. He’s been a reserve police office for Florida in Miami Beach and Golden Beach; for Tempe, Arizona; and for California for the Port of Los Angeles, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

He’s even planning a run for sheriff in Henry County, Georgia, in 2020, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Seeing a successful black athlete who wants to be part of law enforcement probably drives liberals even crazier than O’Neal’s stance on cops in schools.

But he hit this one dead-on.

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