So did Sarah Palin. She not only endorsed him, she came out and held a rally for him and got thousands onto his RINO bandwagon.
I just joined the NRA a few months ago. There was a 5 page piece on Harry Reid’s ‘heroic’ efforts in procuring land for a range in Nevada.
And now this???
NRA gives harry Reid a grade of B. GOA gives him a F.
Disappointing.
Just Damn
As an NRA member I am appalled at this decision !
That will not help and will drive away members.
Well, there goes my NRA membership.
Why of COURSE! [forehead smack]
This was so obvious; shoulda seen it coming like a tsunami.
Look, here’s the rationale:
NRA needs to have some clear-and-present threat to grab onto to EITHER keep the 2nd Amendment looking precarious OR make potential threats loom larger (or BOTH), so they can keep up the “OMG we’re gonne lose our rights!” drumbeat. That is, after all, what fuels funding and membership efforts.
Now, it’s not that there’s no threat to the 2nd Amendment, it’s that supporting McCain may help there be more of a dire need for it in the future. See, support for McCain creates the prospect for new legislation on illegal immigration that would, in turn, create an elevated NEED for residents of AZ (and at least 47 other states) to guarantee unmitigated access to their 2nd Amendment rights by raising the spectre of citizens having to defend themselves with lethal force from an onslaught of illegal immigrant perpetrators of violent crime.
So, essentially, the NRA decides to kick the country in the nuts to make it howl so more people will show up to help them defend it from bigger, badder things that threaten to make the country howl.
/SARC
Gee, I wish I were still an NRA member, so that I could quit again, as I did two months ago.
They don’t represent me.
WHO will rid us of this RINO scum? WHY are these people and organizations supporting him when they KNOW he will stab all of us in the back at the very first chance he gets!?!
This is completely stupid. The NRA should have waited until after the primary.
Now, they’ve gone and done an immensely stupid thing.
No surprise. The NRA is a gun rights marketing organization. They market the idea of gun rights, and do it quite profitably, but when it comes down to actually getting in the political mix, they’re usually nowhere to be found. Don’t want to rock the boat afterall.
Other much smaller gun rights organizations do the real heavy lifting. In Arizona, AzCDL has been doing some great stuff of late. Here in VA, it’s VCDL who usually gets things done.
F that! I’m scratchin’ the NRA off my list now. Geeze louise! This country has gone flippin’ nuts.
Great example of how a single-issue position can yield the worst result.
I support the NRA but NOT in this case.Its time for John McCain to retire.
Why on earth would those running the NRA go against its’ members by supporting a sell out like McCain?
Yet ANOTHER reason to join the Gun Owners of America and NOT the NRA!