Sunday, January 20, 2013

Bill Clinton To Dems: Do Not Underestimate Gun Rights Advocates


Bill Clinton is pictured. | AP Photo
'Do not patronize the passionate supporters of your opponents,' Clinton said. | AP Photo
Former President Bill Clinton warned a group of top Democratic donors at a private Saturday meeting not to underestimate the passions that gun control stirs among many Americans.
“Do not patronize the passionate supporters of your opponents by looking down your nose at them,” Clinton said.

“A lot of these people live in a world ative forums + Plus very different from the world lived in by the people proposing these things,” Clinton said. “I know because I come from this world."
Clinton dedicated a substantial portion of his 40-minute address before a joint meeting of the Obama National Finance Committee and a group of business leaders to the issue of guns and gun control, saying that it was a test-case for President Barack Obama’s grass-roots movements. (POLITICO was given a transferable ticket by an invited member of the committee.)
“The way the Obama campaign won Florida, won Ohio, won this election by more than projected was the combination of technology, social media and personal contact,” Clinton said. That’s “the only way that our side will ever be able to even up the votes in the midterms and as these issues come up, really touch people and talk to them about it.”