If you’re smart enough to be an NRA member,then you’re smart enough not to piss your vote away to a hopeless candidate like Barr.
Post of the day. Thank you, sir.
In reality I was seriously considering Barr over McCain.
The addition of Palin to the ticket pretty much sealed a vote for McCain. Had McCain chosen Lieberman instead, there was no question I was completely abandoning the GOP for Barr. Because for the most part the GOP has abandoned it’s so called base of voters.
I used to be a member of the NRA myself. But got tired of the weekly calls for money and other time consuming issues. While those issues are very important to myself and many Americans, there are the issues of making a living and family that have to come first. An NRA endorsement is a great sales pitch. But it is only one of the deciding factors. Unfortunately we have to look at other important issues to see the overall effective leadership rating of an elected official. I rate my firearms very highly, but also know there will always be a push to diminish my 2nd Amendment right, as well as my 1st Amendment and my 4th Amendment right. So it is all inclusive and not just the single issue fanatics dwell upon.
Unfortunately for Barr, the two party monopoly has stacked the cards against any 3rd party with their ridiculous exclusions of the 3rd party candidates in the debate process. The two partys are afraid to have to address the real solutions to the real problems displayed in our current political monopoly. If we want change in our politics, we will have to do better electing more Libertarians to congress to replace the 9% approval rating with people who can get the job done.
Palin demonstrates that ability to do what is right. but that alone will not accomplish congressional reform. True reform has to come with the replacement of the good ol boys 9% club.