How the NRA is winning

The Washington Post ^ | January 18, 2013 | Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake

[MinorityRepublican]

It’s easy to think that in the wake of Wayne LaPierre’s angry press conference and the National Rifle Association’s tin-eared web video on President Obama’s daughters that the NRA is losing — and losing badly — in the fight over the proper place for guns in American society.

Easy and likely incorrect.

The National Rifle Association is at the center of a debate on guns and gun control.

There’s little doubt that the inside-the-Beltway crowd and those who have been longtime advocates of more gun control laws are outraged by the brash style that the NRA has adopted following the shootings in Newtown, Conn.

But, there’s also plenty of evidence to suggest that the NRA is regarded entirely differently in the country at large. Polling conducted by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal this week showed 41 percent of people had a favorable opinion of the NRA, while 34 percent viewed it unfavorably, a margin largely unchanged from a similar survey conducted in January 2011.

And a look at the longer-term trend line on views of the NRA by Gallup suggests a striking consistency in the overall impression Americans have of the gun rights group.

[jsanders2001]

It's very simple: AMENDMENT II A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. infringed - : to encroach upon in a way that violates law or the rights of another It's very simple; the President cannot sidestep the Constitution with an Executive Order, however he can get Congress to amend it; this is his intention. He's using standard Alinksky principles to demonize gun ownership and ridicule them by turning up the pressure using the MSM and mist likely an army of online imposters posting at key liberal websites

[muawiyah]

Why do people keep imagining that Obama is clever ~ he's not. He is literally the stupidest man to ever be selected President.

He is a real EMPTY SUIT.

[Kenny]

I think the Tea Party needs to get into it. They currently run the risk of becoming just another political arm to GOP. I honestly think one plan is to start recalls where it’s allowed by state or ad campaigns against others who support ANY form of gun control. The Tea Party has resources to do that.

[muawiyah]

Recall is one of the more expensive forms of meaningless political protest. A lot of money is spent; political capital used up; and words blathered ~ and very few of them work, or work soon enough to have any effect.

There are other ways to drive people from office who need to be driven away, and the system gives you another election in anywhere from 2 to 4 years.

[RitaOK]

Locally, it makes sense to keep contacts with the Tea Party, doesn’t it.

[Kenny]

Locally, it makes sense to keep contacts with the Tea Party, doesn’t it.

I think so. When we all initially got behind the Tea Party it was a huge success. People came from all over the country to be heard. I'm just hoping that organizing them doesn't destroy the movement. Seems like all the power brokers take over any large organization sooner or later.

[Kenny]

Recall is one of the more expensive forms of meaningless political protest. A lot of money is spent; political capital used up; and words blathered ~ and very few of them work, or work soon enough to have any effect. There are other ways to drive people from office who need to be driven away, and the system gives you another election in anywhere from 2 to 4 years.

True but that gives them cover for 2 to 4 years. One of the main problems is that these yahoos use "the government" or "Congress" to hide in the numbers. We need to find a way to single them out.

I think one reason our voices were heard during Obamacare (I know, heard but not listened to) was the individual attention given to Senators and particularly Reps. I think we need to do the same thing with local, if your guys are considering a gun bill get a list out of who's on board.

[Impy]

GOA rankings for those pigs:

BAUCUS: D-
DONNELLY: C-
HEINRICH: D
MANCHIN: D
CASEY: F
T.JOHNSON: F
WARNER: F
TESTER: F
HEITKAMP: Not rated (talks out of both sides of her ugly mouth)
BEGICH: D
REID: F- (as you would expect!)

So at most 2 of those swine aren’t committed rapers of the 2nd amendment. That lying piece of garbage Tester who had an ultra-liberal record in the Montana State Senate is fresh off reelection as are that ugly hick Manchin and that fungus Junior Casey.

The possible 2A moderates Mark “Don’t I look like Evan Bayh?” Donnelley (who was in the House) and Heitkamp are newly elected thanks to horribly run campaigns by their hapless GOP foes and in Heitkamp’s case, fraud to put her over the top.

Johnson, Begich and Warner’s asses are up next year. Johnson already had a top GOP foe in former Governor Mike Rounds. VA has it’s work cut out trying to get rid of that inexplicably popular ponce Warner.

[cradle of freedom]

The Dems anounced that they wanted to get the red voting states and this is how they did it—they pretended to be conservative Democrats. Now they are revealing their true selves. I don’t know if you remember something that Rush Limbaugh said about the Clintons, that they would get up every day and ask themselves “how can we fool them today”. That is ALL that Democrats do lie, lie and lie some more.