October
9th 2008
Posted under Bob Barr & John McCain & Second Amendment
The rumored NRA endorsement of John McCain has indeed happened. This is astounding. McCain has a long history of being squishy soft on Second Amendment issues. This is a blatant thumb in the eye of the NRA’s own Board member Bob Barr.
The NRA rates Barr, one of their own board members, with an A+ rating. McCain has earned a C+ rating by the same organization.
McCain’s disdain of the Second Amendment has earned the ire of virtually every gun rights organization in the country.
This is clearly a case of the NRA putting party and pragmatic politics above principle.
Patroon on 09 Oct 2008 at 5:29 pm #
So much for being a member of the board. If this doesn’t show the NRA has become a subsidary of the GOP just like a lot of conservative groups, nothing else will.
RedPhillips on 09 Oct 2008 at 5:59 pm #
Don’t they realize that this diminishes their influence? It doesn’t enhance it. Why cater to them if they are going to endorse you anyway. Same with the Christian conservatives. They are in the bag.
LaPierre is a smart guy. He should know better.
Patroon on 09 Oct 2008 at 6:23 pm #
Hell, they didn’t even endorse Dole in 1996. Is it Palin that makes McCain acceptable now? What does that say?
Here’s a thought, let’s switch the two.
Andrew T. on 09 Oct 2008 at 7:00 pm #
This is disgraceful.
roho on 09 Oct 2008 at 8:57 pm #
It’s a big room of money and the house is burning.
Those that have a key are in the house while the peasants watch the fire…….the AIG upper level management were some of the first in the house, and Emperor Paulson is telling each group who can go in next.
Meanwhile GWB is making speeches telling the MSM Propaganda machine that “He believes in the American Spirit!”…..(Is that why he bought a 200,000 acre farm in Paraguay?)……Kind of reminds me of the old film footage of the evacuation of Saigon?
It’s amazing how we Americans believe more in the institutions than our blood, kin, heritage, and what we know is right.
Harold Crews on 10 Oct 2008 at 1:48 am #
That’s odd I didn’t know the NRA had principles. Glad I didn’t renew my membership.
Robert on 10 Oct 2008 at 6:57 am #
>>>Meanwhile GWB is making speeches telling the MSM Propaganda machine that “He believes in the American Spirit!â€â€¦..(Is that why he bought a 200,000 acre farm in Paraguay?)……Kind of reminds me of the old film footage of the evacuation of Saigon?
Robert on 10 Oct 2008 at 6:59 am #
Meanwhile GWB is making speeches telling the MSM Propaganda machine that “He believes in the American Spirit!â€â€¦..(Is that why he bought a 200,000 acre farm in Paraguay?)……Kind of reminds me of the old film footage of the evacuation of Saigon?
I have read about this rumor many times on the net and if true..strongly indicates that gwb mght just have plans to take a private jet out of the country the second he is OUT of office legally to avoid a potential prosecution and being convicted of treason, war crimes, genocide, failing to prevent or stop the invasion of illegals from the Southern borders, and a host of other charges against America citizens.
If true..why wait till he is in flight…arrest the scumbag criminal before he has the chance to slime out of the country!!
David Allyn on 10 Oct 2008 at 12:14 pm #
No surprise – NRA was infiltrated many years ago and anyone who continues to pay dues to them is a moron.
Chris Hewlett on 10 Oct 2008 at 12:15 pm #
Come on guys, no one is ENDORSING McCain. They are merely stating that they will VOTE for him. You’ve got to know when to fold ‘em. The time is now. One of two people will occupy the white house – which one is your choice. Everyone knows that we don’t want either – we don’t need to beat our chests about it anymore. I voted for Ron Paul when it counted, but it don’t count no more. We don’t control these things with our little individual votes. Who’s your choice, a back-stabbing liberal American Republican or a Democrat socialist who is not even identifiable as an American. Quit trying to “send a message” – it has either already been heard or it has fallen on deaf ears.
Weaver on 10 Oct 2008 at 12:55 pm #
Chris Hewlett,
if there’s no difference between them, why does it matter whom we vote for? I suspect Obama would better lead to a conservative countermovement as Clinton did in the 90s, but I’m certainly not gonna waste my vote on him.
This is essentially an endorsement by the NRA. Dr. Phillips is of course right: the NRA loses influence by endorsing a gun-grabber like McCain.
Frank Griglonis on 10 Oct 2008 at 3:00 pm #
i’ve been an nra member since i was a teenager, however, during the past ten years, it became
apparent to me that they prefer to hobnob with
the effete and elite…the goa has been a
much more solid “grass roots” organization…and
it may be that economic collapse (and martial law) could be coming to glorious multiculture (or bust) empire, so an “offshore” haven has made sense to me
for some years (no pal of jorge “boosh” since the post 911 debacles)…
see: GOA’s Take On John McCain
Conservative Or Gun-Grabber?
Patroon on 10 Oct 2008 at 3:54 pm #
Chris,
Republicans don’t “hear” messages until they wake up in the gutter. Then they listen. They’re still in a drunken stupor. They’ve not hit bottom yet.
Chris Hewlett on 10 Oct 2008 at 5:31 pm #
I made it very clear. You vote for McCain because he can be identified as an American. Get your head out of the clouds. We ain’t going to win. I stated that the message might not have been heard – but so what? My position is a reaction to conditions that exist – not what I want. You don’t get what you want. Why are we constantly beating our chests. Of course we’re right, but being right and $1 might get you a cup of coffee. As Dr. Phil might say – how’s being right working for you? Another day, another battle. If McCain, by some miracle wins we can start attacking him right away – and we still have an American in office.
Andrew T. on 10 Oct 2008 at 6:47 pm #
Chris, tone down that disgusting level of nationalism. Yes, McCain is an “American”…and that has what practical meaning, anyway? He sucks the big one. Just stay home, dude. Voting isn’t necessary.
Hey, I’m being “un-American”, aren’t I?
Weaver on 10 Oct 2008 at 8:53 pm #
Hewlett, are you sure McCain is an American?
If it talks like a Mexican and votes like a Mexican, it must be a Mexican. After hearing his comments to La Raza, I’d sooner flee the country than vote for that Mexican gringo.
Un traidor is Spanish for a traitor.
Weaver on 10 Oct 2008 at 10:43 pm #
Hewlett,
I keep hearing Americans talk of how they fear an Obama presidency, and it only makes me like Obama more.
Bush II has been the worst president in recent American history, yet red state has blindly followed him.
McCain is but another Bush. Under McCain, there’d only be a further push to the left. America needs a reaction! It’s high time America stopped moving leftwards, and the only way I can see that happening is if they’re so shocked by what Obama is supposed to represent.
In reality though, Obama is no different from McCain. Obama is only a symbol conservatives can react against. While McCain is a symbol conservatives will rally around.
McCain then is the greater threat. America cannot take another conservative silence. Conservatives have got to wake up and revolt! It’s now or never. If conservatives don’t start revolting under Obama, they might as well learn Spanish and get used to waiting in bread lines. And I repeat: there’ll be no revolt under McCain, and without a revolt, we’re doomed.
Alice Lillie on 10 Oct 2008 at 11:42 pm #
Bob Barr deserves an A+ rating, as he is truly pro-gun.
John Mc Cain deserves an F, maybe even an F-. He is fiercely anti-gun.
But then, let’s face it, the NRA isn’t really pro-gun and hasn’t been for quite some time.
I don’t know why Barr is even wasting his time with the NRA.
See my blog as the listed website.
Harold Crews on 10 Oct 2008 at 11:52 pm #
I’ve heard the lesser of two evils argument too many times. It is false. This election is more choosing your poison. I understand that anti-freeze taste sweet and arsenic is foul. But both will kill you. Better the arsenic in that a sensible man is more apt to spit it out. But that is the choice that the msm has forced upon us. Something tells me they don’t have our best interests at heart. The truth is that America is dying. It is committing suicide. Those of us who hate what it has become took no part in its death. And many of those who most loudly proclaim their patriotism have plied her with poison. It is a shame that she is set on death. America loves death. It is entranced by its power. Ultimately we become or become like what we love.
Frank Griglonis on 11 Oct 2008 at 7:23 am #
go to the goa website and check out barr’s sneaky
snake record on gun rights…(and, neither do i
ascribe to anyone’s moose mom with lipstick “happy meals” fabrication)