Zach Wamp says he sleeps with a gun next to his head, and he's warning voters: "Don't elect some sissy wannabe as your governor." Do you think he's talking about Bill Haslam?
This all came up at this weekend's tea party debate. (We just finished watching the video.) When the moderator asked about gun rights, that's when Wamp stuck out his chin and started talking like Clint Eastwood:
"I sleep with a gun next to my head and I'm not going to tell you what it is or frankly who it's titled to. To me it's like a right that we have and I'm a no exceptions, no excuses kind of guy. I think governors, as this separation takes place in our country between good places and bad places and as long as this nanny state federal government is going in that direction, this is one of those things we may have to meet them at the state line about. And I"m just telling you Tennesseans because there are some tough times coming. Don't elect some sissy wannabe as your governor. It's time for tough people standing up to protect what we have left in this country. We're going to need those kind of tough people. This is one of those issues we're going to have to buck up on."
Then he handed the microphone to—guess who?—Haslam, who mumbled something about how he agrees there's a right to bear arms. He also said he would have signed the guns-in-bars bill if he had been governor, but he didn't sound all that enthusiastic about it. Then, looking relieved, he handed the microphone to the next guy. But the tea partiers weren't letting him off the hook.
