NRA gives endorsement to Schweitzer

Something to keep an eye on.

It should be interesting to see how much Schweitzer wins by, then compare the percentage that vote for him with the percentage of the same people that vote Democrat in the presidential election as was done last cycle.

Kudoz Governor Schweitzer. :thumbsup:

I'm all for the second amendment, so this doesn't bother me that badly. It IS very important to a lot of gun enthusiasts, though. I think he's also a big farm guy. Those are 2 positives for the white rural working class Dem voter.

He strikes me as the kind of guy that wouldn't leave Montana until and unless he knew it would be left in good hands, and maybe not take it at all.

The kind of guy that would honor his commitments, if ya know what I mean.

so they could buy prescription drugs at prices they could afford. Part of his 2000 Senate run, where he spent a lot of energy promoting awareness of just how difficult it was for rural elderly to get medical care and afford the drugs they needed.

Google Schweitzer + elderly to Canada for prescriptions

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F03E1D7143DF932A35753C1A9669C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

Of course the fed made him stop, cuz those drugs in Canada might be dangerous and all ... just protecting the CONSUMERS, donchaknow :eyes:

Now, of course, the big retailers are bringing drugs in from China where we are seeing some real problems with quality control...

He stood up to bush/cheney re our National Guard helicopters being in Iraq when we need them here to do important work during our fire seasons. He also stood up to DHS like the voters in MT wanted, on the REAL ID crap. DHS gave Montana 'an extension'. Brian laughed and said they can call it what ever they want, but we didn't ask for an extension, we said we aren't doin it.

He is doing much to get LOTS of people putting up windmills and using more solar.

He's really something.

If I had to pick one word to describe the guy, based on everything I know about him, it would be: Integrity.


Something that alot of politicians seem to have lost somewhere along the way.

He is a brilliant man.

Everything I know and have read about him, screams to me that hes a real guy, not some career politician who is only interested in people for thier votes.

A true peoples Governor, If you get my meaning. Thats my perception, anyway.

I would very much love to meet the guy, if I ever get up that way and get the chance. Kind of a stretch for me though, gas prices suck, and even in a sipper make it somewhat prohibitive, sadly.

He seems to be a guiding force with them too. The man is an inspiration in Bubba Packaging ;)

The NRA seems to be a Republican-supporting organization, but that is only because there are far more Republicans who support the right to keep and bear arms than there are Democrats.

But as this example shows, the NRA is quite goal-focused. They are quite happy to endorse Democrats, or probably anyone else, for that matter, so long as they support the right to keep and bear arms.