[rellimpank]

--the NRA -and I am not an official spokesman- stays strictly with firearms issues.

While it may seem to be Republican leaning (for obvious reasons) it is very prudent to maintain some Demo support for the next time they gain control-which I suspect will be in 2006--

[OKSooner]

No, the NRA presents a facade of staying strictly with firearms issues. Behind the scenes, they scheme with the best of them. Their best play is to support weaselly Democrats whom they find acceptable so they can claim to be "bipartisan".

Examples? Carson in Oklahoma, of course, at the expense of Tom Coburn, and don't forget our friend Howard Dean who got an A rating from the NRA despite his later to be revealed liberal psychosis. The aforementioned situation in New Jersey is another example, along with the Republican primary for the US Senate where the NRA supported the incumbent sleaze Arlen Specter over his more principled and conservative challenger, (I forget his name, someone help me out here) who lost by a few hundred votes.

In Coburn's case, there are SOME who believe the NRA witheld their support from him because he's unpopular in Washington. (In other words, religious, principled and disinclined to "play ball".)

And it's a shame, because they have done so much for the gunowners of america at times.

I'll consider rejoining if the Ted Nugent faction of the NRA takes over at the next board election.