Strange, our local liberal rage just ran some soclumn about how McAullif bragged about his F rating from the NRA but failed to mention any of the rest of the state election outcome.
Maryland "Freak State" PING!
What’s more, after the 2011 legislative elections in Virginia, there were 63 states delegates rated an "A" by the NRA and that number grew to 65 on Tuesday.
Make no mistake. My observation is that a NRA-backed candidate will not necessarily be a conservative on other burning issues.
Given two candidates equally likely to support NRA propositions, they are going to back the one most likely to win, whether or not he/she is pro-choice, pro-gay, pro-spending, pro-Islam, pro-Obama, or whatever; especially even when he'd be a shoo-in without NRA help.
These days, many candidates will give some kind of lip-service to NRA. IMHO.
My son, a solid conservative small business owner, well-educated, pro-family, Christian morality, fiscally prudent, home-schooling, supporting privately-administered medical plans, and NRA member, was tolerated by Republicans as their nominee for State Senator in Illinois.
His opponent, an interim liberal appointee to a retiring liberal Democratic incumbent's term remainder, claimed to also be pro-NRA.
Both the Republican Party and NRA left my son high and dry, on the one hand without Republican funding or advertising, and on the other hand NRA pointed to his liberal Democrat opponent as their choice, rather than at least remaining neutral. The Dem was two to one in the final outcome.
They are not necessarily be your friends (as I have previously been to them), and may well be your enemies, when the bets are down. Beeware of them, always.
I am done with both of them. For good.