Posted on 04/13/2012 9:23:08 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
ST. LOUIS) — Mitt Romney's speech to the National Rifle Association is a high-profile chance for the Republican presidential candidate to woo conservatives who have viewed him warily for years.
The address on Friday in St. Louis also comes at a moment of heightened national concern about gun use because of the explosive Florida case in which a neighborhood watch volunteer fatally shot an unarmed teenager. The NRA strongly backed Florida's "stand your ground" law, which is at the heart of the unfolding legal matter.
It won't be the first time Romney has had to walk a careful line between appealing to conservatives, who form his party's base, and trying not to alarm independents, who will be crucial in the fall campaign against President Barack Obama.
Few conservative groups have a bigger name or broader network than the NRA. Thousands of members are filling St. Louis hotels and sidewalks this weekend for an annual convention that offers "over seven acres of guns, gear and outfitters."
The NRA is so vital to Republican politicians that Rick Santorum, who suspended his presidential candidacy Tuesday, is keeping his appointment to speak just after Romney on Friday. Others scheduled to speak at the "leadership forum" include presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
Romney has an uneasy relationship with gun owners. "I don't line up with the NRA," he said when he tried to oust Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in Massachusetts in 1994.....
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Well, I was a) pissed off. And b) just thinking aloud. I would be more inclined to either vote for Santorum still on the ballot, or vote for Ron Paul out of disgust and protest.
Well, I was a) pissed off. And b) just thinking aloud. I would be more inclined to either vote for Santorum still on the ballot, or vote for Ron Paul out of disgust and protest.
I hear ya. I share your disgust to the “x”.
I may write in Ronald Reagan just to really get their goat.
Wouldn’t it be amazing if something like that caught fire and he was re-elected. What a hoot...
“Mitt Romney’s speech to the National Rifle Association is a high-profile chance for the Republican presidential candidate to woo conservatives who have viewed him warily for years.”
“What utter rubbish. NRA members who know Myth’s real record will not be swayed by a mere speech. In fact, I doubt they could be swayed by anything the GOP-E sucking Myth might say.”
Contrary to Romney’s introduction on the podium at NRA meeting as “a life member of the NRA”, his membership dates only from 2007, when Romney made the first bid at the presidency. I don’t know WHY Chris Cox lied.
In 2002 gubernatorial election, the NRA gave Romney a B grade, but gave his Democratic opponent, Shannon O’Brien, a sterling A.
Romney’s flip-flops on Second Amendment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj8Nk3p1wyY
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