Posted on 07/12/2010 9:09:33 AM PDT by Frantzie
The National Rifle Association has puzzled many observers as well as angered its conservative members by remaining neutral in the contest for Nevada’s seat in the US Senate in November. In that race, Sharron Angle is challenging incumbent Harry Reid, running on the Republican ticket as a Tea Party conservative. Her own campaign site notes as follows her position on the right to bear arms.
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Straw man argument. If Reid loses, then the GOP has a better than 50-50 chance of taking the Senate. Therefore, Schumer or Durbin would become the minority leader.
NRA had best stay out of the Nevada senate race.
If Harry Reid votes to confirm the gun-grabbing Kagan, the NRA will lose all credibility, if it hasn’t lost it already.
True, Flowers is a Mormon and in his interviews he imparts a conservative bent, but he admits he did vote for Obama (accompanied by the tears that supposedly went with voting for him *yawn*). I really like The Killers and I really like Flowers. I saw the news clip of the event and thought I saw the lead guitarist up there. Googled it and, sure enough, they were there. I do think, however, that Flowers is more conservative than even he knows, LOL. Brandon, wait until your babies grow up and they have nothing, courtesy of your vote!
tax payer money??
stimulus money??
Well theoretically the NRA never existed to support
conservatives perspectives. It existsed to protect the 2A.
Just as the Tea Parties don’t exists to promote every conservative intiative. They stand for less taxes and stopping the expansion of government into their livs.
The problem with endorsing Reid is that it isn’t based on principle. Reid is not a friend of the 2A. An endorsement over Angle would be a political calculaion that it is better to have a Senate Majority leader on your side then a Freshman Republican in the minority party. This assumes Reid would be on their side...and he wouldn’t be.
Some of their past endorsements leave people gritting their teeth but could be excused. This one cannot be excused. His record isn’t good, hers is. Either endorse ANgle or stay out all together so as not to anger a Majority Leader. But in conscience they cannot back Reid and still claim to protect the 2A.
The NRA is known for backing pro-gun Democrats as well as Repubs. They usually pick which ever candidate is the strongest on the 2nd.
This Nevada pork gun range sure looks suspicious.
Oh, I'm sorry, do you own the copyright? Or are you Rick Santelli, who coined the idea from the floor of the CBOT, with his rant on CNBC?
Santelli called for a "Chicago Tea Party" when referring to the Obammunist's mortgage bailout program. Here's the URL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp-Jw-5Kx8k
Tea Parties are about more than just taxes. They're about re-kindling the spirit of the Boston Tea Party, which is what Santelli was referring to when he said he was going to hold a Chicago Tea Party (not some cute, contrived acronym). Tea Parties are about opposing government tyranny in all its forms, taxes being only one.
Furthermore, "Taxed Enough Already" didn't appear until a month or so after the first Tea Parties, in February. I attended two Tea Parties, one in February and another in March of '09, before seeing a "Taxed Enough Already" sign at the April 15th Tea Party.
So long story short, I don't know who appointed you the official Tea Party arbiter, but I'll call it whatever the hell I want.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
A $60 million gun range paid for with taxpayer money probably is a palace plus half of the money got skimmed by Reid’s cronies.
The NRA is a 2nd Amendment group but the men who wrote the Second were against govt stealing from citizens like Harry Reid does ad naseum.
The NRA is screwed up. Movie director John Milius is on the NRA board. I liked him until he came out to support Roman Polanski.
Well I am getting letters daily from Marco Rubio cleaming he is a Tea/TEA Party candidate. However he aided and abetted illegal immigration in the Florida House.
How can Rubio be a Tax Enough Already candidate when a s**tload of my tax money is going to illegals? Crappy RINO FL GOP.
>>So long story short, I don’t know who appointed you the official Tea Party arbiter, but I’ll call it whatever the hell I want.<<
Good point. :)
My concern is an over-broad vision, causing the whole thing to implode of its own weight. I thought the focus on taxes and tax funded organizations would do a tremendous amount of good, while an “undefined but ‘Boston tea party’ like” movement would collapse due to lack of focus.
Part of my role in my job is sort of sales engineer. We have learned to limit our presentations to two to three takeaways or the students leave with a lot of good information, none of which sticks more than 24 hours.
But you’re right. I’m not the official arbiter.
There’s the problem. Unless the party has an actual charter, it is a mishmash of people that can claim they are a part of it without specifying why beyond a bunch of subjective platitudes.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I didn’t think you overreacted. You presented a position and effectively backed it up. I considered myself properly spanked. ;)
I do think the debate needs to take place, however, where the party is actually established, with vision, platform, etc., but this will take time. My concern is that it is destroyed much as woodstock destroyed the “hippy” movement. It was an unwritten thing and when Woodstock made it mainstream it collapsed, much as a concentration of medicine in a bottle becomes diluted when poured into a lake.
Thanks.
Tom Gresham came close to apologizing for this on his radio show yesterday. The rationale is that Reid is a devil we can do business with, whereas Chuckie Schumer (or Turban Durbin) are devils we can't.
This has happened before - Toomey / Specter, Coburn / Carson, and now Angle / Reid. It's just a matter of who's scratching whom's back.
I can smell something coming out of Washington from all the way out here in northeastern Oklahoma.
Please ping me when they come out with their official endorsement.
Here is the $61 million gun range in Clark County, NV on the NRA web site.
http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/Read.aspx?ID=414
LOL! Check out the picture with Wayne LaPierre and Hairy Reid. I guess we now know the NRA are stooges for Obama.
If Reid and whatever “pro-gun” Democrat Senators remain in the Senate helped to derail the nomination of Kagan and insisted that Obama appoint someone who truly understands the Second Amendment, I wonder if the “deal with the devil” would be worth it?
(How far up the butt can one person’s head actually go?)
To the shoulders. Yup, all the way.
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