Romney Claims NRA Endorsement He Didn't Receive (December 16, 2007)

Washington Post ^ | December 16, 2007 | Michael D. Shear

[SoConPubbie]

Mitt Romney on "Meet the Press" Sunday. (Getty/Meet the Press).

Maybe it was the pressure of the moment. Being under the Tim Russert spotlight can get to anyone. Under Russert's grilling about guns on this morning's "Meet the Press," former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney claimed an endorsement he'd never won.

In answer to questions about whether he would sign an assault weapons ban, Romney said: "Just as the president said, he would have, he would have signed that bill if it came to his desk, and so would have I. And, and, and yet I also was pleased to have the support of the NRA when I ran for governor. I sought it, I seek it now. I'd love to have their support."

Later in the interview, he added the following:

"I just talked about, about guns. I told you what my position was, and what I, what I did as governor; the fact that I received the endorsement of the NRA."

The problem?

He was never endorsed by the NRA, and didn't have their official support during his 2002 gubernatorial campaign. The NRA declined to endorse in that race, as was acknowledged by Romney's spokesman this morning.

"The NRA did not endorse in the 2002 campaign," said spokesman Kevin Madden, when asked about Romney's comments. "Mitt Romney as a candidate received a respectable B grade rating from the NRA, . . . .

What Madden didn't say was that Romney's Democratic opponent in the governor's race, Shannon O'Brien, was given a more than respectable "A" grade by the NRA, according to its website.

[SoConPubbie]

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton
"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan
"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792

[SoConPubbie]

Another day, and another LIE by that lying, left-wing, Progressive Liberal Mitt Romney is exposed.

Does this man have an honest bone in his body?

[JRandomFreeper]

But I keep being told on FR that if I don't vote for the liberal liar that I'm single-handedly re-electing Obama and the world will end.

/johnny

[DannyTN]

Great quotes. Especially that first one. Very appropriate.

[fishtank]

On a related note, in 2010, the putzes at the NRA endorsed every single New Mexico commie-Dem incumbent congress-idiot.

I quit the NRA right after that.

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