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NRA Mulls Harry Reid Endorsement
Indy Posted Newspaper ^ | 7-11-2010 | Rudy Stettner

Posted on 07/12/2010 9:09:33 AM PDT by Frantzie

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To: super7man
If Sen. Reid loses, the next candidate for Majority Leader is very likely to be Chuck Schumer or Dick Durbin—two of the most anti-gun U.S. Senators in history.

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.

41 posted on 07/12/2010 9:58:10 AM PDT by mwl8787
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To: Frantzie

If Harry Reid votes to confirm the gun-grabbing Kagan, the NRA will lose all credibility, if it hasn’t lost it already.


42 posted on 07/12/2010 9:58:48 AM PDT by 84rules ( Ooh-Rah! Semper Fi!)
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To: Dr. Ursus
Gee,I thought the lead singer might be a conservative.I guess the new U2 will be like the old U2.

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!

43 posted on 07/12/2010 10:00:39 AM PDT by mancini
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To: rockinqsranch

tax payer money??

stimulus money??


44 posted on 07/12/2010 10:07:09 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: rockinqsranch

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.


45 posted on 07/12/2010 10:12:33 AM PDT by Soul Seeker (?)
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To: Cinnamon Girl
What is the question mark for? Reid is a stinking rat but he supposedly is good on gun issues. He had a pork barrel gun range built in Nevada for $60 million or something so the NRA that that was a good thing too.

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.

46 posted on 07/12/2010 10:35:45 AM PDT by Frantzie (Democrats = Party of I*lam)
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To: RobRoy
"Dang it! It is not the Tea Party! It is the TEA Party. TEA is an acronym for crying out loud! It stands for Taxed Enough Already."

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!

47 posted on 07/12/2010 10:42:37 AM PDT by wku man (Claire Wolfe's clock is winding down...tick......tick..........tick...............tick..............)
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To: rockinqsranch

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.


48 posted on 07/12/2010 10:43:55 AM PDT by Frantzie (Democrats = Party of I*lam)
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To: RobRoy

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.


49 posted on 07/12/2010 10:46:15 AM PDT by Frantzie (Democrats = Party of I*lam)
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To: wku man

>>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.


50 posted on 07/12/2010 10:53:02 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Frantzie

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.


51 posted on 07/12/2010 10:54:52 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: RobRoy
I apologize for my overreaction. I like to look at the Tea Party, or TEA Party if you prefer, as millions of individuals united behind a common cause, but still being there for their own individual reasons. I guess that's the small "l" libertarian in me.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

52 posted on 07/12/2010 11:04:22 AM PDT by wku man (Claire Wolfe's clock is winding down...tick......tick..........tick...............tick..............)
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To: wku man

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.


53 posted on 07/12/2010 11:08:15 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: mancini

Thanks.


54 posted on 07/12/2010 11:18:41 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Joe Brower; All
The NRA hasn't done anything WHAT?

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.

55 posted on 07/12/2010 11:18:41 AM PDT by OKSooner ("Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life." - Coach John Wooden)
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To: OKSooner
"The NRA hasn't done anything WHAT?"

Please ping me when they come out with their official endorsement.

56 posted on 07/12/2010 11:20:54 AM PDT by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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To: Frantzie

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.


57 posted on 07/12/2010 11:34:38 AM PDT by Frantzie (Democrats = Party of I*lam)
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To: Joe Brower
the issue is very clear cut. Reid is bad for the country. His record in the senate has done considerable damage to the country. He should go. Same for chuckie and turbin. If we can only get one at a time, so be it.
58 posted on 07/12/2010 11:45:39 AM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: Frantzie

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?


59 posted on 07/12/2010 11:46:18 AM PDT by William Tell
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To: samtheman

(How far up the butt can one person’s head actually go?)
To the shoulders. Yup, all the way.


60 posted on 07/12/2010 12:24:17 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Remember, guys, the enemy is to the left and the middle.)
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