He Wouldn't Make It.

The Threepers will never allow it.

Michael Savage was talking about the reason Secretary Gates (in a speech to the Marines Memorial Club, as a proxy for President Obama) was talking about cutting down the United States Marine Corps: The USMC is the armed force most likely to be willing to take on Obama's sought-after private "security" force which is just as well funded and armed as the military. He speculated that the dismissal of General McChrystal (during wartime no less) was a warning to the rest of the General officers: keep your mouths shut about what the administration does, including cutting back the Marines.

So the USMC is reduced to a shadow of its former self. Then you get a "comprehensive immigration reform" (read: amnesty) bill through, and you have 40 Million new Democrat voters. Next up: removing term limits for the President of the United States. Then you have Idi Amin Hugo Chavez Barack Obama, President for Life, with an army that is loyal -not to the country- to Himself alone. As Savage was telling his radio audience to consider President Obama still being president 30 years from now, I said (out loud, to the radio, alone in my car): "No."

I considered my response for a moment and continued:

"He wouldn't make it."

There is a good chance that President Obama will survive his first, and maybe even a second term as President. But he would not continue to live if he set himself up as a de facto dictator. He would catch a hot one. The patriotic American tradition of not killing political enemies is deeply rooted in the soul of the Three Percenter, but there is certainly at least one of them (us?) out there who would not suffer it. It is almost 100% sure that he would be assassinated if he ended up in a third (or fourth) term.

Then the floodgates are open.

If, by that time, we still have a semblance of the Republic as it currently stands, there will be a Vice President and a Speaker of the House next in line. If the current model holds, they will also be wannabe dictators. If the shooting has started, do you let a Nancy Pelosi type step into office? Remember the Frenchmen and their guillotines.

It could never happen in America, VFD!

No, you're right. It couldn't happen here: we don't have guillotines. But we do have our thirty-calibers.

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So. As a privately-owned rifle is the surest cure for the tyranny of a tyrant, beware the baby dictator who would like to restrict your private arms.

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Note: I do not endorse the killing of anyone, including the President of the United States, without due process. This post is only pointing out that mine is not the only opinion on the topic.