Posted on 08/06/2011 6:18:46 AM PDT by marktwain
NRA Chief LaPierre: Eric Holder Must Go.
Really? Why now? Don't we need him around to get to the bottom of this? Of course, the only way Eric Holder will himself, unassisted, "get to the bottom" of the Gunwalker Plot is when he wipes his own ass after taking a dump.
Actually, getting rid of Holder now would be an easy, and rare, notch on the NRA coup stick but would actually facilitate the cover-up and protect the White House.
But that's not what this is about. It is about NRA PR and fundraising. For example, take this remarkable statement from the "800 pound gorilla of gun rights."
"When NRA first began our campaign to fire Eric Holder we were one of just a few voices in the wilderness."
Oh. yeah, riiiiiight.
Of course they were.
The NRA had to be dragged kicking and screaming to this scandal, by their own membership agitating from below as well as courageous board members like LTC Robert K. Brown of Soldier of Fortune magazine.
LaPierre himself told media folks early on that they were reluctant to get into this because it was just "rumors" and the NRA didn't want to be seen as "anti-law enforcement."
To demand Holder's removal now is just an attempt to pick low hanging fruit, that won't push forward the investigation into the inner recesses of the White House.
If LaPierre (my French is a little hazy, does that mean "The Peter"?) is serious about getting "to the bottom" of the Gunwalker Plot, he should rather be demanding a House-based independent investigator AND making that a point of scoring politicians by. Anything less and he is just holding Holder's toilet paper for him.
The NRA has a long history of waiting until the heavy lifting is done, then issuing press releases to take credit, sometimes to the detriment of the actual effort.
The NRA does a lot of good work, but they are a mainstream organization that waits until a movement becomes mainstream before they join it.
Gunwalker ping.
Wouldn’t forcing Holder to resign over this blow the lid off the MSM coverup?
My guess is that they would say: It has been investigated, those who made mistakes punished. It is a regretable incident now let us move on to correcting the problem by giving the ATF more power and money.
But Holder is not going to go gently... probably not go at all. Raising the issue raises the exposure to the issue.
bump.
Reasonable people can disagree on tactics. I would rather have the NRA put its efforts into supporting Issa, perhaps getting a special prosecutor. Timing is critical on this. It is going to take a while to investigate. We do not want to short circuit it.
But for better or worse the NRA has chosen this tactic. You disagree with the tactic. Fine. I think your reasons are sound. But where do we go from there? Attack the NRA? Is that where we should be spending our energies?
We need to keep the NRA leadership's (LaPierre is the one that counts more than any others) feet to the fire. They were very reluctant to come on board with the gunwalker scandal. The NRA membership is more pro-Constitution than the NRA leadership, and it is always good to spread around the truth.
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