Posted on 09/24/2002 4:52:46 PM PDT by Pokey78
The NRA is not a Republican organization, they are a gun-owners' organization.
Chuck Heston signed up 2001-04-19.
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What does this mean?
Heston's personal endorsement for Seigelman (while campaigning for Riley and other GOP'ers here in 'Bama) is yet one more sign that Democrats are giving up on their gun-control assault (for now). And the endorsement is a two-edged sword. The NRA can now point to a Democratic governor who relishes his Chuck Heston endorsement, something that can be tossed at any rogue liberal anytime the NRA gets bad press from some desperate Democrat.
Yeah, down there. Up here we are staring square at a Blagojevich governorship and a clean sweep of nearly all statewide positions by Dems.
Can you say "California"?
You Yanks are tough to figure out. Why the affinity for Democrats? It's not like the Democrats have come to the table with a single big idea since Hillary's 1993 Healthcare nationalization fiasco.At least down here in the South - Democrats have some Rebel, state's rights champions (or pretenders) amongst their ranks to justify a perverted "vote for my state" sort of attitude, but up North, I just don't see even that sort of flimsy excuse to vote for them.
But then again, the national affinity for Democrats has always perplexed me. Democrats are pro-abortion, yet Catholics like them. Democrats favor racial quotas (ala Affirmative Action) and oppose school-choice vouchers, yet minorities stuck in lousy school districts like them. Democrats love the UN as well as national minimum wage laws, yet "State's Rights" supporters seem to like them. Democrats oppose creating new jobs by drilling in the ANWR, yet unions like them. Democrats kiss Yassir Arafat's wife yet many Jews like them.
It boggles the mind...
Other than posting a link to Jim Robinson's comment to Torque, you still haven't given me a detailed answer, in your own words, to my question.
That's fine, as long as that Yellow Dog isn't a gun grabber. :). The issues are different in a state governors race than they would be in Presidential or federal Congressional one. There, especially in Congress due to the rules giving the majority party control of assignments and the agenda, and the case of the Senate, the judicial nomination process, there are other considerations than a single canidates position on the issues.
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