Personally, I'm disappointed by the NRA's decision.

And I will remain so. I just don't donate to their PAC the NRA-ILA which is just a Republican support group.

Thankfully in my area there are a lot of pro gun democrats running for office.

The NRA has earned a reputation over the decades as a pro-gun advocacy group that's solidly in the Republican camp.

But in what will no doubt come as a surprise to many, the organization is endorsing 14 House Democrats in close races because their Second Amendment views line up with the with those of the gun-rights group.


midterm elections 2010




http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2010/10/06/130393162/nra-endorses-14-house-democrats

When the NRA talks about Obama, they give half-hearted protests about guns but a lot of their language makes it clear that they buy and peddle the entire catalog of GOP bullshit about Obama. They don't consider him American; they warn about impending socialism. Lots of things that have nothing to do with guns. The NRA's leadership has gone far beyond their stated agenda and has joined the larger right wing anti-Obama machine.

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Whether they'll go the full cognitive dissonance route over Romney's shifting positions, or will they think "He burned us before, why should we trust him now?"

of full-throated corporatism and privatizing even the RW teabaggers feel toward the GOP. NRA could have no-voted, but chose to go with whole RW ball of wax. That's why I can't buy into the NRA.

I think this is going to hurt them in the long run. As they appear more and more to the general public as nothing more than a right wing propaganda machine they'll lose influence as the electorate changes. This was a very bad miscalculation on their part, in a desperate hope to buy influence. I agree with you, a no-vote would have been far better and saved them some credibility. I think the NRA's problem is that they don't feel they can be replaced because of their size. What they forget is that it is people like me, voting gun owners, who give them their influence. If another group comes along and sticks to the tenants the NRA espouses, but doesn't practice, then the winds of change just might blow them down like so many others throughout history.

Some success in firming up his red meat base. Fell far short of even appearing to turn to the center. His repudiation of the 47% remark outside the debate lost him most of the opportunity for turning that around. All he had left was lies and obfuscations. He was gutted on substance and the wounds self-delivered trying to heal previous wounds. To save himself on the whole he made crucial things worse and pretty much doomed his candidacy with a Pyrrhic "win".

He gave himself enough emotional recovery to soldier on like a moron a bit longer. Maybe he'll go on long enough to wake up on election night and be shocked he lost.

They fell for that varmint-shooting lie

I don't belong to the NRA

lamprey attached to the ass of American politics. Fuck the lot of 'em.

His kind is really good at that. And then when it's no longer convenient to hold to the truth he insisted he was telling them he'll just change his mind. It's easy for a guy like that. The truth isn't in him.

been fair to gun owners, he did himself no favors with his "bitterly clinging" comment a few years back. The right-wing NRA can't forgive and forget that.