[wagglebee]

Time to e-mail, phone, etc. the NRA and make this happen!

[SunStar]

This is just NewsMax stirring the sh*t...

[dmc8576]

There is nothing to worry about. The NRA will endorse George W. Bush. I am quite certain of it.

[Kornev]

"Although a push from President Bush would get a renewal before lawmakers – a majority of whom would probably approve it – the president, who supports the renewal of the ban, has been thunderously silent. "

What a lie. Maybe they mean Senate, but no way in the House.

[Betaille]

this is kinda silly. Kerry has one of the most anti-gun records in the senate.

[roostercogburn]

I am an NRA member and I receive the magazine " First Freedom " monthly. Read this months issue. Believe me, the NRA will endorse President Bush. They have been absolutely hammering Kerry.

[snooker]

Well maybe the NRA would settle for a Kerry bullet ban instead of Bush.

Just posturing. I don't believe a word of this.

[dead]

Nonsense.

Newsmax must have gotten tired of re-writing NY Post articles and claiming FR discoveries as "Exclusives."

[ArmyBratproud]

Time to use other Gun Rights groups...an stop sending money to the NRA. For the past several years....they have been way too much into games. The NRA lobby folks are more afraid of losing their seats at high dollar dinners and DC social events than anything else.

Way too often they play games...and the overall result is they end up losing on a gun issue...when less games would have protected our rights more.

Do you really want to get the NRA to get back to work....
Tell them that they will no see another dime...unless they quit backed dems who have stabbed them in the back and switched votes at Zero hour.

[smonk]

no way. the NRA is no more likely to endorse jauques kerry than NARAL is going to endorse W.

[OldFriend]

There will be no further membership in the NRA if they do not endorse the President.

[TommyDale]

Nahh...the NRA will endorse that famous belly-crawling, shotgun-toting deer hunter, John F. Kerry.

[Atlas Sneezed]

If the president supports the assault gun ban renewal, it could be the straw that breaks the proverbial camel's back.

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He has said repeatedly that he DOES support it. The question is whether he SIGNS it.

Simply put, Bush is no friend of gunowners, The question is whether he is an enemy, like Kerry.

[Hat-Trick]

For his part, John Kerry certainly hasn't given Bush a pass on his inaction: "We all know Bush and Cheney have broken their promises on Iraq and the economy," he said recently, "but most voters don't know that they are standing against major police organizations and breaking their promise to renew the assault weapons ban – which helps keep military-style assault weapons out of the hands of criminals and terrorists."

Hmmmm.....So John "I was sent into Cambodia" Kerry thinks I'm either a criminal or a terrorist because I want to own a "military-style assault weapon". That crap won't play west of the Hudson and east of Tahoe.

[The Wizard]

if the NRA sits on it's hands on this election, I won't be renewing

[Ichneumon]

Recently on "The Charlie Rose Show," Bill Clinton explained why Al Gore lost in the former president's home state: "I'll tell you exactly what happened in Arkansas. ... The NRA beat him in Arkansas." Guns played a major role in securing Bush victories not only in Arkansas but also in West Virginia, Tennessee, Florida and New Hampshire. At last year's NRA convention, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told members, "If it were not for your active involvement, it is safe to say that my brother would not have been elected president."

It's important to remember how key the NRA (and politically-motivated gun owners in general) were to the landmark elections of 1994 which returned congressional control to the Republicans for the first time in decades:

      "The NRA is the reason the Republicans control
      the House. The fights that I fought, bloody though they were, cost
      a lot. The fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 [Democratic]
      members their seats in Congress."
                                   President Bill Clinton

         I don't want to destroy the good atmosphere in the room
      or in the country tonight, but I have to mention one issue
      that divided this body greatly last year.
         The last Congress also passed the Brady bill and, in the
      crime bill, the ban on 19 assault weapons. I don't think
      it's a secret to anybody in this room that several members
      of the last Congress who voted for that aren't here tonight
      because they voted for it.
                                   President Bill Clinton

            "As candidates who backed gun control legislation fell one by
     one across the nation Tuesday night, the National Rifle Association
     re-emerged as a high caliber political force that politicians cross
     at their own peril," reported The Hill on Nov. 10, 1994.

      An astonishing 25% of all voters voted primarily on the gun issue.
                                 Connie Chung, CBS News, November 10.

     "Exit poll show data showed that more than a third of all voters who cast
     ballots Tuesday said they supported the National Rifle Association -- and
     two-thirds of those voters cast their ballots for Republican candidates."
                        Washington Post, November 10, p. A33

    25% of all voters, nationwide, identified themselves as NRA or sympathetic
    to the NRA in exit poll interviews.  25% said the only reason they came out
    was to vote against gun control.
                              Dianne Feinstein campaign HQ

     35% of the voters had a positive impression of the NRA and went
     overwhelmingly Republican.
                         MacNeil-Lehrer Report, November 10.

            "The National Rifle Association...rebounded with a vengeance
     Tuesday (Nov. 8th) when at least a dozen of the gun-control
     supporters in Congress it had targeted were defeated by candidates
     who oppose weapons restrictions," reported Hearst News Service in
     the Portland Oregonian (11/10/94).

            "They [NRA members and gun owners] alone may have well made
     the difference in this election," said Sen. Harris Wofford
     reflecting on his loss to Rick Santorum in the Pennsylvania U.S.
     Senate race (AP, 11/12/94).

President Bush, please do the right thing. Don't p**s off us gun owners. You wouldn't like us when we're angry.

[The_Macallan]

tagged.

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It's Not Just A Gun...

It's My "HOMELAND DEFENSE RIFLE"!!

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Wayne LaPierre had effusive praise for incumbent Bush, telling his readership that the president stood squarely in the shoes of Ronald Reagan, the AR-15 automatic rifle owner who on May 9, 1983, was named an Honorary Life Member

PRESIDENT REAGAN OWNED AN AR15?!?!?!

Unless I am reading the article incorrectly, this is a completely new side to my understanding of Pres. Reagan. Please, somebody tell me they have a picture!

[GVnana]

Oh Paleeze! Like we'd all be better off with Kerry.

[numberonepal]

NRA Bush Endorsement Not Certain

Whatever Newsmax. As if.

[GeronL]

If they don't endorse Bush, they should be shot... just kidding!!