Looks like Sen. Manchin is showing a lot of spine, so good on him:
Sen. Joe Manchin is firing back after the National Rifle Association targeted the conservative Democrat in a television commercial last week.
The senator from West Virginia said Thursday morning the NRA is using “paranoia” to keep lawmakers from making big moves on gun control, following the Newtown elementary school shooting in December that left 20 children and six adults dead.
“Why do we ask to be policy makers and be involved in the public process, when…we’re afraid basically to engage,” he said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “I’m not afraid to engage. The worst they can do is defeat me and send me home to my family and the state I love, West Virginia. That’s a pretty good consolation. What are we afraid of?”
Manchin released an ad Thursday defending himself against the recent attack from the NRA. A leading voice in the fight for expanded background checks for firearm purchases, Manchin says in the ad that he “hasn’t changed” on his stance for Second Amendment rights and simply wants to bring “common sense” to Washington.
That’s more like it, although it does say something about our politics that we consider it “BOLD” for a politician to stand with what 90% of the public wants.