To: Trteamer
The NRA has always endorsed pro-Second Amendment Democrat incumbets. As well it should: the Constitution is not a partisan document.
However, it's a fair question whether you can fairly call "pro-Second Amendment" anyone who votes for Nancy Pelosi for Speaker and John Conyers for Chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
I think that you can, but only if the incumbent in question is shown not only to be "personally" supportive of the RKBA, but actually is making aggressive moves to change public policy on the Second Amendent and to change the Democratic Party's position about it -- in other words acting as if the RKBA not only exists but is important.
Are they fighting to change platform planks? Are they recruiting and supporting pro-RKBA candidates in solid and swing districts? Are they organizing to get pro-RKBA members into leadership? Are they engaged with RKBA advocacy and scholarship groups, and wholesalers and resellers in the firearms industry? Are they writing op-eds against gun control and cooperating actively with Republicans on RKBA issues?
To: only1percent
What good are gun rights if the Democrats tax and spend us to death and ruin our country in the process, not to mention destroying our moral values.
45 posted on
09/18/2010 9:45:37 AM PDT by
Roy Baty
To: only1percent
Very well said and you get to the heart of the matter. When the potential endorsee is part of the anti-RKBA party, you cannot be blind to the harm that a party-line vote can cause. Unless there is a record showing RKBA will come before party, then you have the tie-breaking data to not endorse.
48 posted on
09/18/2010 10:38:38 AM PDT by
NonValueAdded
("It's amazing, A man who has such large ears could be so tone deaf" Rush Limbaugh 9/8/10)
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