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Posted on 10/13/2004 8:14:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
The National Rifle Association endorsed President Bush (news - web sites) for re-election on Wednesday, promising millions of dollars for ads, phone banks and other get-out-the-vote efforts.
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"The Supreme Court is going to be crucial to the future of the Second Amendment, and President Bush will appoint justices that respect the Bill of Rights," NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre told The Associated Press in a phone interview before announcing the endorsement at a news conference in Duluth, Minn.
Bush also supports legislation to protect the firearms industry from lawsuits and opposes centralizing files on gun owners, LaPierre said, calling the difference between Bush and Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites) on guns "day and night."
LaPierre also planned news conferences in Flint, Mich.; Youngstown, Ohio, and Pittsburgh.
The gun-rights group's political action committee has already spent roughly $1 million on TV and other advertising opposing Kerry.
The NRA plans to spend about $20 million in all, focused on 10 to 15 targeted states, with efforts including radio, television and newspaper ads, phone banks, door-to-door voter contacts, up to 10 million pieces of direct mail and election messages in magazines that go to the group's 4 million members.
Kerry says he has been a hunter from childhood and a gun owner who supports the Second Amendment. But he has voted in favor of gun control and has supported extending a now-expired ban on assault-style weapons and requiring background checks at gun shows. He opposes granting gun makers immunity from civil lawsuits.
Kerry's campaign has derided the NRA's leaders as tools of the Republican Party and said they are out of touch with their membership
Kerry has also said that he hunts deer with a double barrel shotgun and stalks them by low-crawling over the ground.
That Botox has infected his gourd.
"October surprise?" </sarc>
Life member bump.
It;s about damn time. What have they been waiting for?
The AWB to sunset...
Bush said that if it hit his desk, he'd sign a renewal of the AWB. They waited to see if that happened.
And it did. THANK YOU PRESIDENT BUSH AND THE GOP IN CONGRESS!!!!!!!
BS, that was weeks ago.
" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"
Good news. About time. Hopefully sportsmen and gun rights lovers everywhere can ensure that Kerry has all the time in the world to hunt this winter with his double barrel shotgun to bag a 8, no 16 point deer down on the cape, and do nothing else.
Saw how Botox Ketchupman handles a gun, ripe for a mouse on his face.
Just one more issue the Kerry campaign is on the wrong side of. The NRA is definitely in touch with this member. Too bad so many rank and file union members will be voting for Kerry despite their NRA membership - damn foolish Kool-Aid drinkers.
I was just thinking about the NRA this morning. It's been rather quiet this election cycle, at least compared to 2000 and 2002.
new member bump
Well it had to come.
Personally, I don't believe Kerry ever went on a real deer hunt but in Illinois you can only deer hunt using a shotgun (deer slug). This has to do with the flatness of the terrain. I'm not sure about other states.
Since Kerry brags about being a hunting expert, Lets have a debate between himself and Ted Nugent. That should settle this once and for all.
Note to John Kerry: the 2nd Amendment is not about hunting
Maybe this will prompt some union gun owners & hunters to think twice about voting for Kerry. This should be mostly good news for Bush.
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