Posted on 10/20/2008 10:12:13 AM PDT by neverdem
What is your "Plan B"
Thank you for conducting the research, neverdem.
$40 million is what the NRA is spending. $40 m from the NRA is worth $100 million versus other groups.
You guys need to understand the NRA. You will not see an ad on Monday Night Football. Maybe the outdoor channel or that gun channel or Speed TV. They are very good at (pardon the pun) targeting their ads. They are talking to their base of 4 million members and probably another 2 to 4 million expired members like me (I will renew). I already got a direct mail piece. Even as an expired member - I will read every word.
Gun owners, NRA or former NRA members are a different breed. If the NRA says something - gun owners can take it to the bank. They don’t just endorse anyone. They have loved Sarah for years - she has been in their mags.
If you have union guy who is an NRA member - if the union says vote Obama and the NRA says McCain then McCain in almost all cases wins.
Since 1980 - every Pres candidate the NRA endorsed (Repub) won. Reagan twice, Bush 1 once (they did not do it second time due to Brady Bill), withheld Dole because of Brady Bill, supported Bush 2nd twice.
They spent $20 million against Kerry according to one story that I just came across using the keyword nationalrifleassn. I was looking for the story that I thought I read that they expect to spend at least $18 million against Obama. Remember that the economy isn't so hot.
I’ve been through the Carter years (in the military, by they way, where we all felt the disgrace of his being the CINC)
I’ve been through the Clinton years, where . . . well, you know.
I can gut it out for four years, I guess. If I have to. The peeps will see some really frightening things through their newly opened eyes.
As they loved to say on the Sopranos: Whaddyagunnado?
You're welcome. I knew it had a name. I was thinking semi-quotation marks. It was bugging me. Obama is extra, extra antigun without any marks or qualifications.
I think you're talking about "scare quotes". Per Wikipedia: Scare quotes is a general term for quotation marks used for purposes other than to identify a direct quotation.
Generally, if quotes are used within quotes, then the single quote would be used. Sometimes the single quotes are used even if they are not within double quotes. Depends upon the style. (I tend to use single quotes quite often, to sorta indicate that the words are not actually "quoted".)
You can look up the LameStreamMedia style books, if you want to find their take on it, but they certainly aren't the definitive word on punctuation, grammar or anything else in the English language, since they bend anything any way they feel they want to. Remember Mark Twain's comments:
...That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditchdigging and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse."
--Mark Twain, License of the Press, A Talk Before the Monday Evening Club, Hartford, 1873.
although I feel he went too lightly and was much too politically correct in that thought on them. Then again, he did say:
"If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed."
--Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Even during the civil war, the military weren't particularly enamored of them either:
"I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast."
--Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman
Of course, ol' Thomas didn't think highly of them in his time, either:
"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."
--Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, 1819
Then there's a somewhat more contemporary view:
"The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth."
--Winston Churchill
Thank you.
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