Which is exactly why Obama never intended Pennsylvanians to hear what he was telling rich San Francisco liberals.

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania sportsmen aren’t “bitter” about their guns and balk at what they call Sen. Barack Obama’s double-talk in courting their support.

In a state that boasts one of the country’s highest per capita rates of membership in the National Rifle Association (NRA), Mr. Obama’s stance that Second Amendment gun rights are compatible with new tough gun laws falls flat.

And it didn’t help when he said the state’s “bitter” small-town voters hurt by the economy were not supporting him because they “cling” to religion, guns and anti-immigrant views.

“It just tells me he is anti-gun,” said Debbie Schultz, owner of Schultz’s Sportsmens Stop in Apollo, Pa., about 40 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

“We don’t need more gun laws and we don’t need tougher gun laws, the ones we’ve got are pretty stringent,” said Mrs. Schultz, 53, who has been selling sporting and target firearms for 39 years. “You can’t keep a thug from getting a gun [unless] you try to take all the guns from every gun owner and that will never happen in the United States.”

Rocco S. Ali, president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs, said the two viewpoints embraced by Mr. Obama are incompatible.

“He’s tried to satisfy both sides [but] they don’t go together,” said Mr. Ali, whose organization represents about 95,000 hunters and outdoorsmen in more than 350 clubs.

Of course, who is the alternative to Obama?  Hillary “Assault Weapons Ban” Clinton?

You’d think the Democrats would learn sooner or later that the quickest way to get marginalized in a national election is to be anti-gun.