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NRA Now Leans Toward Endorsing Harry Reid
Red State ^ | Thursday, July 1st at 8:00AM EDT | Posted by Erick Erickson (Profile)

Posted on 07/01/2010 8:55:30 AM PDT by Fawn

Multiple sources tell me the National Rifle Association is planning to endorse liberal Harry Reid against pro-gun champion Sharron Angle.

Two weeks ago, I told you about the carveout the NRA received in exchange for their support for the DISCLOSE ACT deal.

Then this week, RedState broke the story of the “gag order” the NRA issued to members of its Board on the Kagan nomination.

Now, I’m getting credible reports that the NRA is leaning toward endorsing Harry Reid, even though the NRA is finally saying it will score a vote on Kagan — something that was not a sure thing.

Why would they do this? Why would they go out of their way to protect a Senator who has demonstrated a repeated hostility to the Second Amendment in his votes and his leadership?

Well, I thought perhaps the NRA carveout in the DISCLOSE Act might be the answer. But, there is more. It turns out, Reid secured a $61 million earmark for a gun range in Clark County, Nevada.

(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; harryreid; nra; reid
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Well, well, well......
1 posted on 07/01/2010 8:55:32 AM PDT by Fawn
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To: Fawn

bad move.....no gun range is worth being associated with this loser....take the money, forget the endorsement...politicians do it all the time.


2 posted on 07/01/2010 8:57:07 AM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now and in the future)
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To: Fawn

Whores.


3 posted on 07/01/2010 8:57:13 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Fawn

No No No!!! I don’t care about some possible $61Mill earmark. This man is a menace to the 2nd Amendment. period.


4 posted on 07/01/2010 8:57:50 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Even the earth is bipolar.)
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To: Fawn
I am rather stunned by the recent decisions being made by the NRA. I don't really keep up with it, but, has there been a recent change in leadership or something?

I had always thought of the NRA as a group that stood by its principles. If we lose the NRA, what's left?

5 posted on 07/01/2010 8:58:35 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: Fawn
Shoot! I just joined last year.

prisoner6

6 posted on 07/01/2010 8:58:35 AM PDT by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts are holding The Constitution together as the Loose Screws of The Left come undone!)
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To: Fawn
What planet is the NRA from?
7 posted on 07/01/2010 8:58:44 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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To: Fawn
Playing footsie with the Dems is one thing. An outright endorsement of Reid would likely destroy the NRA and if they don't know that they are too stupid to continue existing.
8 posted on 07/01/2010 8:58:44 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Gun control was originally to protect Klansmen from their victims. The basic reason hasn't changed.)
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To: Fawn

I said bye-bye to the NRA two years ago.


9 posted on 07/01/2010 8:59:12 AM PDT by Misterioso
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To: Fawn

I hope if this happens NRA members will leave the organization in droves and join with GOA instead.


10 posted on 07/01/2010 8:59:30 AM PDT by MissesBush (Stay angry--right through November)
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To: LibertarianLiz

gun owners of america. i’ll switch my membership


11 posted on 07/01/2010 8:59:30 AM PDT by personalaccts (Is George W going to protect the border?)
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To: Fawn

“Multiple” (but unnamed) “sources” giving “credible reports”, eh?

I think I’ll wait for something more solid than that before I freak out. Thanks.


12 posted on 07/01/2010 8:59:39 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
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To: Fawn

Is this for real? If so, and the NRA actually does come out and endorse Reid, they have signed their own death warrant.


13 posted on 07/01/2010 9:00:02 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: Fawn

The NRA can go down with Harry Reid.


14 posted on 07/01/2010 9:00:36 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Fawn

surreal..... they only seem interested in supporting the status quo so they can keep their easy lifestyle.

Screw the NRA


15 posted on 07/01/2010 9:01:29 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Army Air Corps; All

“Whores.”

Exactly. Let’s not forget the NRA in the past has also supported amnesty and has pro amnesty board members.

[snip]The “twitching dogs” who dragged down Simpson’s initiative last year are Capitol heavyweights whose coalition on immigration falls into the unlikely bedfellows category. Among them: the National Federation of Independent Business, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Rifle Association, the Catholic church, the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Bar Association and even some labor unions.

Grover Norquist, a social conservative and anti-tax Republican lobbyist, reveled unapologetically in the tactics he used to undermine the verification initiative and to mock Simpson personally.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2544555/posts?page=17#17


16 posted on 07/01/2010 9:02:11 AM PDT by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: Fawn

Find out what the NRA Board has been drinking.. I want a CASE!!!


17 posted on 07/01/2010 9:03:06 AM PDT by gwilhelm56 (The one thing we learn from history is .. People REFUSE to Learn from History!!)
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To: Misterioso

Me too. Wayne L. and the NRA endorsing the head of the gun-hating party
is like Foghorn Leghorn getting all the hens to vote for Colonel Sanders.


18 posted on 07/01/2010 9:03:37 AM PDT by tumblindice (What is this thing called, love?)
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To: Fawn
Multiple sources tell me the National Rifle Association is planning to endorse liberal Harry Reid against pro-gun champion Sharron Angle.

Big mistake that they will live to regret...

We joined AARP three years ago to get a discount on a trip to Ireland. Our membership expired now, and we'll never join again, even for a discount on a big trip.

19 posted on 07/01/2010 9:04:35 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Fawn

What has happened to the leadership of NRA?

Inquiring minds want to know.


20 posted on 07/01/2010 9:04:35 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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