Bartholomew Roberts
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$200 of gun gear or 2 years of ban-free bliss?
Hugh Hewitt, a Republican sympathizer has a strategy for taking back the Senate and keeping the Republicans in charge. Not suprisingly, his strategy also helps out gun owners quite a bit.
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=272058
For $200, you can help insure that we are ban free until January 2007. That is a pretty good deal in my book and the best part is because it is broken into $25 chunks, you can pick and choose according to your budget.
I've added my comments to Hewitt's proposed donation strategy.
Daschle has been the Senate Leader for the Dems, he has a HUGE campaign warchest and is outspending Thune tremendously. With more than 5 months to go until the election, Daschle had already spent $8.3 million setting a new record for political spending per capita in a Senate campaign.
Despite this John Thune has stayed within the margin of error in polls and is actually polling higher than Daschle by 2% in the last poll. However, he was still within the margin of error. Thune tried to unseat Tim Johnson in 2000 and lost by just over 500 votes. This election could be just as close. If Thune wins, we replace Daschle (GOA-F) with Thune (GOA-B). We also showcase the power of gun owners by unseating the Senate Minority Leader and incumbent - not to mention sweet payback to the guy who helped orchestrate the Dems amendment attack to the lawsuit protection bill after signing on as a sponsor of that bill.
In March, Patty Murray (GOA-F) voted for the semi-auto ban, for registration of private sales, for and for the Kennedy ammo ban. Would you rather have her or George Nethercutt (GOA-A-) who has such a solid voting record in the House that GOA gives him the rarely received A- rating. Is that worth $25 to you?
Murray has raised $3 million more dollars than Nethercutt and has twice the campaign cash on hand.
Boxer is a die-hard rabid grabber. Bill Jones has been a pro-gun vote. Boxer had $7 million in campaign cash at the beginning of August. Jones had only $1 million.
Despite the total domination in funding, Jones was polling within 6% of Boxer on August 19. When the alternative is Boxer, what candidate isn't worth $25?
EDITED TO ADD
Jones has waffled on the issue of ban renewal and now supports it. Still better than Boxer; but I'd now be inclined to vote Libertarian looking at the polls and seeing that Jones is less solid than I would have hoped on guns.
This is the battle for Hollings (GOA-F) seat. DeMint (GOA-A) has the coveted and rarely seen A rating from GOA. He is a solid RKBA supporter and he is pounding his competitor in the polls. Is it worth $25 to make sure he continues to do so and replace an F-vote in the Senate with an A-vote? It is to me...
This is for Edwards (GOA-F) open seat. If Burr (GOA-B-) doesn't winn, former Clinton chief-of-staff and proud gun grabber Erskine Bowles (GOA-F) will take the seat. Burr is 8 points behind and also getting pounded in spending. Is it worth $25 to give him a chance?
Coors participated in the "I'm the NRA" ads years ago before he ever had political aspirations. He also went on record as opposing not only the ban; but supporting repeals of the Lautenberg Amendment, Brady Bill, 1968 GCA and 1934 NFA. Can you get any more hardcore than that?
He is running at a dead tie (48%-47%) with Ken Salazar who supports the ban and has signed the MMM pledge card. Salazar didn't face any serious competition in his primary and has a full campaign chest. Coors had a hard fought primary with Republican Bob Schaefer and his campaign warchest is severely depleted. Is a Senator who would support a repeal of the 1934 NFA worth $25? You be the judge.
Murkowski and Knowles have the same public stance on guns. The difference is Knowles will vote to place Leahy, Kennedy, Schumer and Feinstein in charge of the committee that oversees gun legislation in the Senate. Murkowski will not. Is that worth $25?
This open seat was held by a GOA-F rated senator. Martinez opposes the ban and his opponent supports it. Want to replace a F-rating with a pro-gun vote? Is that worth $25?
For perspective
In March the Senate voted 52-47 to renew the ban. If the Senators named above win their races, the new vote tally would be 46-53. That means the ban lacks a majority in both the Senate and the House. More importantly it gives us a chance to start trying to repeal legislation since we now have enough votes to overcome the RINOs. We can't beat a filibuster; but we can start chipping away at some of the more obscene laws. Is that worth $200?
Hugh Hewitt, a Republican sympathizer has a strategy for taking back the Senate and keeping the Republicans in charge. Not suprisingly, his strategy also helps out gun owners quite a bit.
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=272058
For $200, you can help insure that we are ban free until January 2007. That is a pretty good deal in my book and the best part is because it is broken into $25 chunks, you can pick and choose according to your budget.
I've added my comments to Hewitt's proposed donation strategy.
Daschle has been the Senate Leader for the Dems, he has a HUGE campaign warchest and is outspending Thune tremendously. With more than 5 months to go until the election, Daschle had already spent $8.3 million setting a new record for political spending per capita in a Senate campaign.
Despite this John Thune has stayed within the margin of error in polls and is actually polling higher than Daschle by 2% in the last poll. However, he was still within the margin of error. Thune tried to unseat Tim Johnson in 2000 and lost by just over 500 votes. This election could be just as close. If Thune wins, we replace Daschle (GOA-F) with Thune (GOA-B). We also showcase the power of gun owners by unseating the Senate Minority Leader and incumbent - not to mention sweet payback to the guy who helped orchestrate the Dems amendment attack to the lawsuit protection bill after signing on as a sponsor of that bill.
In March, Patty Murray (GOA-F) voted for the semi-auto ban, for registration of private sales, for and for the Kennedy ammo ban. Would you rather have her or George Nethercutt (GOA-A-) who has such a solid voting record in the House that GOA gives him the rarely received A- rating. Is that worth $25 to you?
Murray has raised $3 million more dollars than Nethercutt and has twice the campaign cash on hand.
Boxer is a die-hard rabid grabber. Bill Jones has been a pro-gun vote. Boxer had $7 million in campaign cash at the beginning of August. Jones had only $1 million.
Despite the total domination in funding, Jones was polling within 6% of Boxer on August 19. When the alternative is Boxer, what candidate isn't worth $25?
EDITED TO ADD
Jones has waffled on the issue of ban renewal and now supports it. Still better than Boxer; but I'd now be inclined to vote Libertarian looking at the polls and seeing that Jones is less solid than I would have hoped on guns.
This is the battle for Hollings (GOA-F) seat. DeMint (GOA-A) has the coveted and rarely seen A rating from GOA. He is a solid RKBA supporter and he is pounding his competitor in the polls. Is it worth $25 to make sure he continues to do so and replace an F-vote in the Senate with an A-vote? It is to me...
This is for Edwards (GOA-F) open seat. If Burr (GOA-B-) doesn't winn, former Clinton chief-of-staff and proud gun grabber Erskine Bowles (GOA-F) will take the seat. Burr is 8 points behind and also getting pounded in spending. Is it worth $25 to give him a chance?
Coors participated in the "I'm the NRA" ads years ago before he ever had political aspirations. He also went on record as opposing not only the ban; but supporting repeals of the Lautenberg Amendment, Brady Bill, 1968 GCA and 1934 NFA. Can you get any more hardcore than that?
He is running at a dead tie (48%-47%) with Ken Salazar who supports the ban and has signed the MMM pledge card. Salazar didn't face any serious competition in his primary and has a full campaign chest. Coors had a hard fought primary with Republican Bob Schaefer and his campaign warchest is severely depleted. Is a Senator who would support a repeal of the 1934 NFA worth $25? You be the judge.
Murkowski and Knowles have the same public stance on guns. The difference is Knowles will vote to place Leahy, Kennedy, Schumer and Feinstein in charge of the committee that oversees gun legislation in the Senate. Murkowski will not. Is that worth $25?
This open seat was held by a GOA-F rated senator. Martinez opposes the ban and his opponent supports it. Want to replace a F-rating with a pro-gun vote? Is that worth $25?
For perspective
In March the Senate voted 52-47 to renew the ban. If the Senators named above win their races, the new vote tally would be 46-53. That means the ban lacks a majority in both the Senate and the House. More importantly it gives us a chance to start trying to repeal legislation since we now have enough votes to overcome the RINOs. We can't beat a filibuster; but we can start chipping away at some of the more obscene laws. Is that worth $200?
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