Posted on 03/28/2011 8:28:36 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
You might expect that the man who is incoming president of the National Rifle Association and was chairman of the American Conservative Union would be a double-barrel ideologue.
Not quite.
David Keene’s friends include liberal-leaning types like Al Hunt of Bloomberg News, former ABC correspondent Sam Donaldson, former New York Times reporter Adam Clymer, and former Democratic presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy.
Keene never hesitates to mention that his mother and father were labor union organizers in Wisconsin or that, as a teenager, he passed out literature for John F. Kennedy during the presidential primary.
Moreover, Keene has stood firm against attacks from within the conservative movement over his decision to keep the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) open to participation by such groups as GOProud, an organization of conservative gays.
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Are you on the NRA payroll?
no. it’s just a bitter pill to swallow.
What think you, Sir?
Be Ever Vigilant!!
Again you entirely missed the point.
I am not a GOA member, you simply bring in a straw man to change the conversation. You brought up the GOA, not me.
The NRA has been behind every major piece of gun control legislation since they began. Don’t take my word for it.
“The National Rifle Association has been in support of workable, enforceable gun control legislation since its very inception in 1871.” —NRA Executive Vice President Franklin L. Orth, NRA’s American Rifleman Magazine, March 1968, P. 22
The NRA currently exists to provide it’s leadership with million dollar salaries and benefits.
Meanwhile the local gun grunts on the ground in state capitals around the country do the hard work.
Listen, I don’t care for Harry Reid either but his voting record on the second amendment suggests that he isn’t 100% a gun grabbing liberal of the Micheal Bloomberg variety. I’m not saying I want to send him money for his political campaign. I’m saying he IS the senate majority leader and he doesn’t vote to eff us on gun rights at EVERY possible opportunity so it seems logical to try to work with him to the extent possible as long as we’re stuck with him. We control 1/2 of 1/3 of the government. We don’t have a lot of choice in the matter. for now.
Well, the left is getting pretty stinkin’ brazen about openly taking over our Conservative institutions. But it seems that they have been infiltrating for a very long time, the lying, cheating bastids.
I keep pressing F1, and its not helping...
You’ve gotta have an IBM PC clone with dual 360k floppies running an 8 bit 8088 processor in turbo 10 MHz mode.............;^)
Per Chris Cox, the NRA gave Reid $5,000 for his 2010 primary.
NRA lost my support when it became clear that they were merely playing defense. They have not drawn any line in any sand that I can tell, merely choosing to keep putting fingers in the increasing numbers of holes in the dike.
They are more than content to focus on the 2nd as a pro-hunting amendment, and let the rest die slowly by incrementalism. When they say at some point, “We will tell our vast, armed membership to respond to your latest infringement on their right to bear arms in whatever way they see fit,” I may reconsider re-joining.
They need to be like that other guy lately, who, when asked to by some lib doofus to sum up his pro-2nd stance, said, “If you try to take away our guns, we will kill you”. I can get behind that sort of leadership.
I have an old HP Vectra CS 8088 machine that I put in my own Math-coprocessor to hand some higher functions...
Fun little machine that is packed nicely in a box, sealed for future use...
I think it’ll work...
Not surprising that any thread started with an NRA theme to it, for the most part, becomes an illustration of a more negative discussion that says, something like:
“Obama’s calling for “reasonable” discussion on Gun-Control”
Not that I am cheerleading for any organization or cause...But understanding the the Second Amendment is still an individual choice and right to exercise...That is what it will always end up being...
The day we are told to turn them ALL in, will not be a failure of the NRA, the GOA ro any state association...
It will be our fault as individuals...
But the saving grace in all of that will be, we had better hang onto them regardless of what is ever decided upon in Washington D.C.
Just my opinion...And yes, I am a Life Member...That is one way to keep a lot of the renewal mailers from coming to you...;-)
“What I do know is that over the course of the past decade, we have won all the battles that matter”
What are you talking about?
All the major battles in the 2nd Amendment in the Chicago and DC cases were brought by private citizens and funded by private citizens.
The NRA actively tried to scuttle the Heller case which was one of most important 2A Supreme Court victories of the past 100 years.
If this guy is as they say he is: I’m out!
The other way to avoid the mailings is to call membership and ask them to “set the do not promote flag” [their terminology]. It works.
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