Posted on 10/09/2008 6:07:08 PM PDT by neverdem
WASHINGTON — The National Rifle Association is endorsing Republican presidential nominee John McCain despite differences with the Arizona senator on gun-show rules and campaign finance restrictions.
NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre and the chairman of the NRA's political action committee planned stops Thursday in Pennsylvania, Missouri, Colorado and Nevada to talk about the move.
LaPierre said the two agree on many issues important to the group.
"He's cast more than 60 votes in the Senate in support of the Second Amendment," LaPierre said.
The NRA's Political Victory Fund has spent more than $2.3 million opposing Democratic nominee Barack Obama. The chairman of the political action committee, Chris W. Cox, says its spending in the presidential race will grow to "eight figures" by Election Day. Besides ads, encouraging battleground-state gun owners to vote will be a key focus, he said.
The PAC was running an ad Thursday in USA Today accusing Obama of waffling on gun-rights issues and challenging his statements that he supports the right to bear arms. Obama has said he respects the Second Amendment but doesn't think it precludes "some commonsense gun laws so that we don't have kids being shot on the streets of cities like Chicago."
The NRA PAC's future spending will target Obama on gun issues and start publicizing the records of McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, LaPierre said. McCain's selection of Palin was a plus, LaPierre said.
"She's a hunter, she's a Second Amendment supporter and she's a tremendous asset to the ticket," he said.
Palin, an NRA member, received an A-plus rating from the group when she ran for governor in 2006. That compares to an NRA grade in the average range for McCain in his last Senate race. McCain isn't an NRA member.
Palin has been...
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People may have expected this, but my understanding is that the NRA's endorsement of John McCain wasn't a guaranteed outcome, because of the NRA's past disagreements with McCain about campaign finance reform and his support for a gun show restriction bill he cosponsored with Joe Lieberman.
But beyond those two disagreements, McCain has a pretty solid pro-gun record, and Palin, of course, is famously a lifetime NRA member. Obama, of course, is basically the most anti-gun candidate to come down the street in many a year, and Biden's no improvement in the NRA's eyes.
And so...
NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre announced the endorsement Thursday. LaPierre and the chairman of the NRA's political action committee were making stops in Pennsylvania, Missouri, Colorado and Nevada to talk about the move.
There's a pretty straightforward correlation between NRA endorsements and Republican presidential victories. Since 1980, they endorsed Reagan twice, George H.W. Bush the first time but not the second, and George W. Bush twice.
That was the whole entry from http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/ The link goes to the thread with the same title.
What else was it going to do?
Not make an endorsement at all.
Just remind it's members to vote.
“its” not “it’s”
Word is, they are going to spend 8 figures on advertising against Obama.
In other news, the sky is blue.
This is a very big deal. Bob Barr is on the board of the NRA.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammo.
Lots of it.
Don’t think...just drink the Kool-aid.
Sure hope they hurry up with that spending on advertising against the Zero.
I don’t have a firearm yet and am going to join NRA anyway!
Cool, I bought a Marlin 336 Lever .357 today and got a coupon too, dovetailed nicely with the endorsement today.
thanks neverdem!
Obama and Guns: Two Different Views (John R. Lott, Jr.)
foxnews.com | April 07, 2008 | John R. Lott, Jr.
Posted on 10/07/2008 9:00:42 PM PDT by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100163/posts
Obama Campaign Unlawfully Misuses Proprietary Firearms Industry Media List
National Shooting Sports Foundation | October 8, 2008 | NA
Posted on 10/09/2008 7:11:36 AM PDT by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101334/posts
Damn, I didn't know that. Why the hell not? Even if you don't agree with their politics, they're a wonderful educational force for kids and gun safety.
I live in Ithaca (City of Evil) and my liberal friends can't understand why I wear my NRA cap to hippie festivals. Fact of the matter is I like to irritate 'em. Makes for more interesting conversations when people disagree. ;-)
“...just because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can’t constrain the exercise of that right...” Barack Obama, 2008 — Philadelphia primary debate
On the campaign trail, Senator Obama hides behind carefully chosen words and vague statements of support for sportsmen and gun rights to sidestep and camouflage the truth. But even he can’t hide from the truth forever… his voting record, political associations, and long standing positions make it clear that, if elected, Barack Obama would be the most anti-gun president in American history. The facts speak for themselves. This election day, vote to defend freedom…because if Obama wins, you lose.
http://www.gunbanobama.com/default.aspx?NavGuid=00bdd116-898f-4f21-8e99-a68a40642560&t=Hunters
I also joined the NRA before I owned any firearms.
Now a life member and have corrected the ‘don’t own firearms’ thing.
I would think that a Constitutional Law professor could figure out the meaning of "shall not be infringed" if he tried. I'm worried that if he does win, he'll try something loony to grab our guns, and then the NRA membership will have to explain it to his thugs.
If Barrak HUSSEIN Obama can tell me how any gun law, common sense or otherwise, could stop kids being shot on the streets of our cities I would like to hear about it. Will these kind of people ever get it through their thick skulls, CRIMINALS DON'T OBEY GUN LAWS.
If the billions of dollars that all levels of LE from the small town sheriff to the DEA and FBI spend every year trying to enforce drug laws hardly makes a dent in illegal drug trafficking and usage, why do they think the strictest gun ban law that Sarah Brady and Josh Sugarman working together could cook up would work any better? The only provable effect that any gun law has ever had has been the denial of the Constitutional right of law abiding Americans to possess and use firearms for lawful purposes and make them helpless victims of crimihals who have no fear of violating any gun law ever written.
Just one among many illustrations of that fact is the Washington D.C gun ban that was recently declared unconstitutional by the SCOTUS after denying lawful D. C. residents their RKBA for 32 years. 32 years in which thousands of people were shot with those banned handguns, and among those many thousands were many lawful residents who might still be living if they had been armed. The ban was enacted at a time when the D.C. was experiencing a very high murder rate, and according to research by the CATO institute, now 32 years later the D.C. murder rate is 55% higher than it was when the law was enacted.
No gun law could be any more restrictive than the unconstitutional D.C. handgun law that so miserably failed to achieve it's purported purpose, and in fact made the problem it was created to solve much worse. So let us in on your secret Barrak HUSSEIN Obama, what would be different about your "common sense" gun laws that would cause them to work any better than the gun laws of any American state, city, county, or town have ever worked? I'm sure he has an abundance of plans, and I'm even more sure that the only affect they would have if enacted would be to make millions of lawful Americans helpless victims of illegally armed criminals.
And to date, IIRC the campaign fund of Barrak HUSSEIN Obama has received 468 million dollars from donors. George Soros alone could easily give more (and probably has) to his campaign than the NRA total and never miss it. That isn't meant to belittle the NRA donation, just to put it into perspective.
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