DeLay and the NRA, political hari-kari?

Steve Soto thinks so and that he has made it even harder for the Rovians to get rid of this loose canon.

Tom DeLay went before the NRA last night, and after already inferring just a week ago that violence against federal judges was acceptable, said that he liked having armed friends to defend him. Even if he was joking (that’s always the GOP's defense: they’re either joking or misunderstood), we are left with a matter of judgment, and DeLay’s appears terminally dangerous. Coming in the same week that Trent Lott planned his full comeback by downplaying his segregationist-supporting comments two years ago as a "little bump in the road", what you see are GOP leaders aligned with dangerous gun nuts and racists, at a time when voters may already think the GOP has been in power too long.
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Last night's display of political hari-kari for DeLay has larger implications, as his party will now have to decide if DeLay's self-inflated opinion of himself as a fighter and tough guy, coupled with his growing absence of political judgment have finally become an unsustainable albatross around the party's neck. But the bigger picture is that DeLay's "me first" appearance in front of the NRA last night, egged on by Bush's support for DeLay earlier in the week as an effective leader, has now made any strategic dumping of DeLay by the Congressional leadership a slap in the face to the NRA, who won't take kindly to DeLay's humiliation should he get dumped right after appearing at their gathering pledging his fealty. This is really Rove's blind spot.

Well Karl and the rest of the Republican leadership, you reap what you sow and you have sown some noxious weeds.