Posted on 06/13/2011 11:52:36 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
Here's the problem:
As Governor, Mitt Romney banned guns.
Governor Mitt Romney has signed into law a permanent assault weapons ban that he says will make it harder for criminals to get their hands on these guns.
"Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts," Romney said, at a bill signing ceremony on July 1 with legislators, sportsmen's groups and gun safety advocates. "These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people."
Like the federal assault weapons ban, the state ban, put in place in 1998, was scheduled to expire in September. The new law ensures these deadly weapons, including AK-47s, UZIs and Mac-10 rifles, are permanently prohibited in Massachusetts no matter what happens on the federal level.
http://www.iberkshires.com/story.php?story_id=14812
I'm thinking that perhaps NRA members, and anyone else who cares about the protection of our Right to Keep and Bear Arms, might want to ask Mr. Keene how much money he and/or the organizations he represents have received from Mr. Romney and his closest allies.
Because, the way I see it, such considerations are the only thing that can explain why the head of the nation's largest gun organization would be shilling for someone who banned exactly the sort of weapons that in 1775 the British went to Lexington and Concord to seize.
Hey you, yes, you Stupid.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2521902/posts
There are other references, but you can find someone else to do the labor.
Having now completed a very limited search on the net, it appears that the NAR had certainly considered it, but backed out after all the heat.
I guess I never read about their change in public position.
All of that aside, it seems that you are most likely in agreement of their support of Romney.
Although I don’t know it to be true, I do wonder if you intend to vote for Romney, sport.
Note to my Republican conservative friends:
If you don’t want the most liberal Governor in the history of the republic, Mitt Romney, to be your nominee, you better lay fire down hard on every single Republican hack who sticks his head up out of the trench on his behalf.
Romney and his political friends have funneled large sums of money to virtually every GOP organization you can think of. The RNC. The NRA. National Right to Life. Heritage. CNP. You name it. And the same is true of many state-based “conservative” organizations as well.
And so, unless you want them to stay bought, you better make them pay a heavy price for implicit or explicit Romney support.
For what it’s worth ...
As a vet, I also have no issue with those who choose not to server.
That being said, it does raise an eyebrow that there are six men (the father and five sons) in the family, yet not a single one of them served their country in any capacity whatsoever.
It makes me wonder if there couldn't some issue at hand - like Dad/Grandad advising against it or perhaps them having some other type of compunction. A mindset of thinking it's beneath them?
Not saying that's the case, but it seems odd to have an entire prominent family of American men shun military service.
Untrustworthy? On what grounds? I personally admire Dick Armey.
He’s spinning, I’m sure.
What happened to Wayne LaPierre?
It is the liberal way...infiltrate and takeover.
“they were a prime force behind the Heller case also”
Sorry to bring you back to reality, the NRA did nothing for Heller, in fact they attempted to scuttle the case.
Only after is was won, did the NRA start crowing. You obviously only read the NRA propaganda.... Goebbels I mean Kane is calling on line one....
He’s still Executive VP
www.2ASisters.org
Stupid, stupid NRA - Romney is NOT your friend.
Well, one might suggest that you shouldn’t be putting your hopes “GOP conventioneers.”
Armey, and Keene, and Norquist, and Gingrich, they’re all part of the same inside-the-Beltway problem. Why? Because they lack a true moral basis for what they do.
Thanks!
and neither is their newly elected president.
“They jumped from the defensive side to the offensive side in the whole homosexual-marriage issue,” Armey told me, explaining that, in his view, Republicans overreached by putting ballot measures forward to define marriage. “When Republicans are fighting against the power of the state, we win. When we are trying to advance it, we lose.” Armey told me that he had doubts from the beginning about the Iraq war and now regards it as a mistake. He faults George W. Bush for “siding too much with the social conservatives and forgetting all about fiscal discipline.” He also has a more liberal view of immigration than many in his party. “Reagan went to Berlin and said, ‘Tear down this wall,’ ” Armey said. “We went to San Diego and said, ‘Build a fence.’ It was just stupid. You have Hispanics saying, ‘I’m not going to vote for those guys because they don’t like me.’ ”...Armey has nonetheless clashed with the religious right. He disagreed with Republicans’ attempts to inject themselves into the Terri Schiavo case and said that Tom DeLay and other important Republicans who remained after he left “got too wrapped up in social issues” and turned off voters. At one point, he referred to them as “those nitwits who took over after we left.”
You reference an article from the New York Times and expect me to change my mind about Dick Armey?
Not going to happen.
I don’t know of a single politician who I have always agreed with.
I greatly admire Dick Armey. I attended his retirement party at the Texas State Republican Convention.
Snip...“I believe you keep your philosophical objectives in mind, and then you work with whomever you need to work with to achieve them,” Keene tells me over lunch at the Palm. “That’s how I build coalitions, and that’s how I built campaigns.”
And now you know why gays were at CPAC and why he left, or was asked to leave, the ACU.
ACU chairman David Keene to quit in February
Keene is leaving ACU in a state of turmoil. The organization alienated social conservatives by permitting a homosexual activist organization, GOProud, to participate in its signature project, the annual CPAC convention. As a result, some of the best-known conservative organizations, including the Heritage Foundation, Family Research Council, American Family Association, Concerned Women for America, Media Research Center and the National Organization for Marriage are not participating in the conference this year.
At the same time ACU has been rocked by a financial scandal in which hundreds of thousands of dollars was reported to the Internal Revenue Service as misappropriated and the group is coming under fire from national security conservatives for allowing Suhail Khan, an alleged associate of radical Muslim activists, to serve on the board.
I don't see how he was even elected to his position.
Infiltration indeed! Sounds like he accomplished that long ago.
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