Posted on 05/03/2013 8:01:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There will almost certainly be an aspect of the National Rifle Association's convention which opens today in Houston that feels like a victory celebration. By organizing and agitating its members, the organization was able to kill a Senate compromise on background checks, steamrolling over an ineffectual Organizing For Action. But as discussion of reviving that deal heats up, the NRA may finally face a real roadblock: public opinion.
Prior to the April 17th vote which failed to end a Republican-led filibuster on a bipartisan compromise to expand background checks there were certainly coordinated organizing efforts. Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Michael Bloomberg's group, launched a series of ads targeting wavering senators. (The group will also be outside the NRA convention today with survivors of gun violence.) The general expectation was that such efforts would be complemented by the sort of grass-roots push for which the Obama campaign and, by extension, the evolutionary Organizing For Action was known.
That didn't happen. Politico has an underwhelming review of OFA's efforts leading up to the vote, the sort of key priority of the president's that the group was designed to push. In short, OFA was a non-factor.
Built on the neighbor-to-neighbor model that helped win two presidential campaigns, OFA at first consisted of professional staff based in Chicago and Washington directing volunteers while retaining control over the message, outreach and Obamas vaunted e-mail list. But the limits of the all-volunteer army quickly became apparent: even ardent Obama fans couldnt make a strong push for him on the off-time from their regular jobs, and they didnt have the resources to mount the kind of field or messaging operation that made the 2012 such a juggernaut....
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Nothing sadder than people who lie so much that they believe themselves.
It ain’t gonna be pretty when reality sets in.
Liberalism really is a mental disease..their warped sense of reality is truly hysterical..the same libs who write these ridiculous columns for their crappy newspapers are all protected with armed guards..if they hate guns so much they can tell their armed security to go home
Okay, so I am supposed to believe the mainstream press, and not my lyin’ eyes? Sure. I think they should bring gun control up at least one more time, Arkansas, Louisiana, Montana, West Virginia, South Dakota, North Carolina.... Let’s just make gun control the central issue in all of those Senate races.
Their delusions are demented, as is their overall ideology.
My comment on the yahoo article:
“Who is the NRA?
“4.5 million people. A quarter-million more than the population of Phoenix.
“Nine times the membership of the ACLU. Just sayin’.
“Sourced from Wikipedia. Yahoo does not permit URLs to be cited.”
Michigan would be a bad one for democrats to try to win on gun control as well.
Yahoo and the Asspress are full of delusional fools and brainwashed dolts who write what they are told to. The product has very little to do with reality; just propaganda and conditioning.
I think that's called a political commissariat.
Regardless pro civil rights effort must continue as if the anti rights crowd were winning.
It cant be that vaunted, Im on it....
It cant be that vaunted, Im on it....
It's Berlin 1932, and our name is Goldstein.
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Fixed it.
I would say that that is hilarious.
The Dem/libs have been engaging in a steady push to infringe on our right to keep and bear arms for decades. And this is how it has been working out for them in the last two decades...
And in the last two months... (Nov. 2012 and Dec. 2012)
MOLON LAVE! WE'LL BUY MILLIONS MORE. ;-)
look who they are writing for, other liberal koolaid drinkers.
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
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Today is Revolution shopping day, gonna head off to a couple of stores that sell items I may nee for the upcoming Revolution, items needed for support, communication, clothing and such.
Especially since the weather refuses to warm up I may need to upgrade and broaden my cold/wet weather tactical gear.
This time around both Levin and Stabenow could vote for gun control because Levin is retiring and Stabenow is between elections.
Looks like Gary Peters may be the democrat candidate for Levin’s seat.
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