NRA may back Dem against DeWine in '06

[countertop]

If the gun rights people do all the work and the day after the election all the pundits are calling RKBA a "secondary" or "minor" issue, that is bad news for us. The "gun lobby" in Ohio has to be able to get full credit if they are successful.

Bingo! Do you really trust them to be able to take credit? They will try, but I've got to believe the media won't listen to them and will spin it as a major loss for republicans/conservatives.

The NRA should have no party affiliation, or it loses all credibility. As soon as they start mixing gun rights with any other issue, they start losing supporters. This situation shows that they are honest, and that Republicans can't take NRA support for granted.

I agree, but for a variety of political reasons, sometimes you have to bite your tongue. The right wing is up in arms about DeWine (and Chafee and Snow and Collins) and I just don't think its smart to camapgin against them in the long run. They are tremendously important in bridging the middle.

Granted, the NRA is a different beast than the far right groups in DC, I just don't want to see them getting caught up in something that relegates them to the status of GOA - we would all lose then.

 

[71Commander]

Maybe the NRA read my post in another thread.

The GOP needs to withdraw funding for DeWine's future run for office. With friends like him..............................

http://www.thehighroad.org/showpost.php?p=1827493&postcount=249

 

[North Texan]

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The NRA should have no party affiliation, or it loses all credibility. As soon as they start mixing gun rights with any other issue, they start losing supporters. This situation shows that they are honest, and that Republicans can't take NRA support for granted.



I agree, but for a variety of political reasons, sometimes you have to bite your tongue. The right wing is up in arms about DeWine (and Chafee and Snow and Collins) and I just don't think its smart to camapgin against them in the long run. They are tremendously important in bridging the middle.

Becoming too strongly affiliated with one party or another would be a death knell if that party were to ever lose their power. The NRA should not ever become affiliated with a particular party. They should follow only the issues and stances involved in the Second Amendment. When someone from either party represents the RKBA, the NRA should support them. When someone fails to support RKBA, the NRA should support the opposition.

FWIW, my interpretation of "bridging the middle" has usually meant gun owners rights have been sacrificed, but only to a degree. And once the government starts regulating something, I've never known them to back down too often.