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By: RoguePolitics (Diary)  |  October 3rd, 2011 at 11:04 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

I assume most folks are aware of the gubernatorial race in West Virginia. We have another left wing nutjob running as a verbal conservative and we have a successful businessman running as a conservative.

Tomblin(D) vs Maloney(R).

So who does the NRA endorse? A friend forwarded this email.

Use Your Vote to Defend Your Freedom!

Vote Earl Ray Tomblin for Governor

Tomorrow, October 4!

Tomorrow, October 4, a special election will be held in West Virginia. Your National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund (www.NRAPVF.org) has endorsed Earl Ray Tomblin for Governor of West Virginia.

Earl Ray Tomblin
“A” Rated and NRA-PVF Endorsed

Earl Ray Tomblin has earned an “A” rating and NRA-PVF’s endorsement for his longstanding support of our Right to Keep and Bear Arms. As a former state legislator, he has a tested and proven record for many years of protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen in West Virginia. Earl Ray Tomblin is committed to supporting our Second Amendment rights and hunting heritage, and he needs your vote to win.

If you are a registered voter, you are eligible to participate in this special gubernatorial election. Be sure to spread the word to your family, friends and fellow gun owners in West Virginia to vote Earl Ray Tomblin for Governor tomorrow, October 4!

Please do not reply to this email as you will not receive a response. This email is a broadcast email generated by an automated system. To contact NRA-PVF call 800-392-8683.
Address: 11250 Waples Mill Road | Fairfax , Virginia 22030

If you wish to be removed from this list please copy this link and paste into your browser and you will be removed immediately:
http://www.nramedia.org/u?id=4562809.0459b35b0a3f38177cbfa325044a5582&n=T&l=nraila_alerts&o=228693

We are in the middle of a war for the heart and soul of a nation, for control of the last bastion of freedom in our time and they are playing tiddlywinks.

Use your vote to Defend Your Freedom? Are you kidding? Vote for the high tax, government is master, business is evil, political shyster to DEFEND YOUR FREEDOM?

What kind of doublespeak, doublethink is this?

The NRA has lost its mind or its soul, or both.

In the interest of political influence and relevance they naturally endorse the leftwing nutjob.

Endorsing the Democrat may have made sense in the 80’s. Perhaps some holdouts remained in the 90’s. There is no such thing as a truly pro-gun Democrat today. No more than there is a pro-life Democrat. Every Democrat will sell their vote for a bridge back home or a secretary down the hall.

Worse, this is an executive position. Tomblin will have many opportunities to sign or veto legislation across the bureaucratic spectrum.  He will also have regulatory opportunities that legislators don’t have.

He will almost certainly use his influence to elect marxists across the state and he will act to elect politicians at the national level. That is three congressional seats, two senators and a presidential election that may be affected.  The NRA just elected the guy who will do everything he can to give Obama WV’s electoral votes. I doubt he can deliver but it won’t be from lack of trying.

This is bigger than guns. The NRA is blind to the larger consequences of its actions. Perhaps if the Democrat had a great gun record and the Republican didn’t then this could be justified. In a circumstance like this, with two supposedly pro-gun candidates, the NRA should be looking at other factors, other issues of constitutional fidelity.

For the record I am considerable more pro 2nd Amendment than Wayne La Pierre. I don’t think the 2nd Amendment allows the federal government to regulate firearms, period. I am a plain language guy.

The NRA just endorsed the candidate who will go all Stupak when the chips are down.

WV has been trending Republican for the last few years, particularly in its national politics. This doesn’t help.

I dropped my NRA membership back in the 90’s when it became clear their mission had been disrupted by their political games and their social club mentality.

Only the most naive do not realize we are in a war with the left for the survival of American Liberty.

In the end, I am not an NRA member because they have no foresight and they treat with the enemy.

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  • http://www.mullinslawoffices.com/ Jim Mullins

    Under the gold dome of the one-party West Virginia State Capitol, everyone who has a lobbyist or PAC is subservient to the Democrat establishment, which had controlled both houses of the Legislature since 1932 and the governorship for 59 of those 79 years–including 17 of the last 21 years.

    Even though West Virginia has made the transition at the presidential level (WV was the only state to vote for Dukakis in 1988 and McCain in 2008) and congressional level (we now control 2 of the state’s 3 seats in the House of Representatives and gave the lone surviving Democrat a hard run for his money in 2010), the realignment has yet to dip further down the ticket. The West Virginia Senate was one of the few state legislative chambers where the GOP actually lost seats in 2010. The Dems currently have a 28-6 advantage in the state Senate (where we had reduced their majority to 21-13 in 2005-06) and a 65-35 majority in the House of Delegates (the largest GOP caucus since 1973-74, when there were 43 Republican delegates).

    Like almost every other organization that has a lobbying presence under the gold dome, the NRA practices an “access-based lobbying” in which staying in the good graces of the Governor & legislative leadership trumps ideology, even for issue-based organizations. The same story applies to West Virginians for Life, the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce, and innumerable industry trade groups, all of which would be reliable GOP supporters in almost every state. These organizations all fear the consequences of unsuccessfully bucking the Democrat establishment and have no reason to fear any consequences if a Republican (in this case, soon-to-be-Governor Bill Maloney) prevails despite the nonsupport of the NRA, WVFL, WVCOC, etc.

    My fellow West Virginia Republicans face a chicken-or-egg situation with respect to our natural allies’ nonsupport: they say they don’t support us because we can’t win and we respond by saying we can’t win because they keep supporting the Dems. If we can win the special election today, we will gain a critical foothold for 2012, when most state and local offices (including the governorship, again) will be on the ballot and President Obama (whose job approval rating in WV is 28% according to the latest PPP poll) will be the mother of all anchors at the top of their ticket. When David Axelrod said President Obama faces a titanic struggle in 2012, he was right in a sense: it will be a Titanic struggle and the sinking ship Obama has a significant deficit of life rafts to save all the Democratic political careers on board.

    • http://dreamsfrommyforefathers.com RoguePolitics

      One of my kids was at a home school convention where one of the speakers asked them a few questions on issues.
      Are you pro-life, for smaller government, etc.
      One of the questions was do you have guns at home.
      Every hand went up. The guy remarked that while he asked that question at conventions across the country WV was the only state that consistently EVERY hand ALWAYS goes up.
      In fact people here don’t talk about whether they have a gun, they talk about how many they have.
      WV politicians are not pro-gun because of the NRA they are pro-gun because the alternative is political suicide. Charleston excepted.
      There are few Democrats that would suddenly become pro-gun control if the NRA endorsed the Republican in this race or others.
      This is totally about being buddy-buddy with the powers that be. All about the social circuit and the country club.

  • chbroussard

    an organization like the NRA was established to defend the 2nd Amendment and over the years has supported politicians who are hell bent on abolishing that 2nd Amendment right. My husband had been an NRA member for over 30 years. Upon seeing which candidates the NRA was endorsing in the 2010 election, he promptly canceled his membership, along with many of our like-minded friends. Appears with this endorsement in WV that not enough people have canceled their membership to get the attention of the NRA. If those that would like to bring this country to its knees have infiltrated the White House, I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that they have also infiltrated organizations like the NRA.

  • andy

    When they endorsed Chet Edwards in 2010 is when I stopped paying on my Life Membership. This diary got me to call in and cancel it. Ricky who answered the phone didn’t even ask me why I was cancelling. FYI – he said they would suspend all mailings but they can’t offically cancel a membership over the phone, it has to be done in writing.

  • Doc Holliday

    on electing Directors that will give Chris Cox the boot, but good. Cox heads the NRA-ILA, including the Political Victory Fund. Basically Cox is in charge of NRA endorsements. Cox has been very clear about the NRA’s endorsements. He has said there are two facts that will not change under his watch:

    1) The NRA only considers gun rights votes, nothing else matters.

    2) The NRA rates incumbents, with pro gun voting records above challengers who fill out a questionnaire.

    Now I don’t know the demonrat’s gun vote history, I have not been able to find one. “On the issues” says he has not gun rights votes.

    We can ask people to leave the NRA or we can ask them to join and vote Chris Cox out of power. My advice would be to join, but give nothing to the
    political side until Cox is gone. Cox seems to enjoy sticking it to Republicans. When Joe Manchin won, the NRA endorsement was widely credited for his victory.

  • kowalski

    I’m recommending this because I partially agree with it. I’m also recommending it because people (particularly at the NRA) need to understand why they’re losing members. I sure don’t have all the answers but when people are as upset as this, there’s probably a good reason why.

    • kowalski

      The microstamping legislation is being heard in the MA Senate Judiciary Committee tomorrow.

      The NRA informed me of it. GOA (and everyone else) didn’t. Instead tonight I get this rant BS from RoguePolitics.

      http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=7119

      • Doc Holliday

        I guess telling you to move to Vermont or New Hampshire would not exactly make you happy, but it probably is the only long term answer.

    • kowalski

      Come to think of it, I’m unrecommending it. I think you’ve gone off the rails.

      • http://dreamsfrommyforefathers.com RoguePolitics

        sorry you felt the need to walk it back.

        maybe you should consider volunteering to monitor MA legislation for GOA. I don’t think their pockets are as deep as NRA.

        • kowalski

          And I kind of still am, but I will say this:

          1) I don’t blame the NRA for having a policy of supporting people who have a track record of supporting them in actual legislation versus picking their opponents who have no such track record.

          2) I don’t think the NRA has as much influence over voters as people like to think when it comes to elections like Governor. The Republican Party apparatus did a good job in West Virginia in this special election but it wasn’t enough to unseat the Donk. I consider the NRA’s endorsement to be negligible. The race was called for the (D) at 9pm.

          3) People can – and should – criticize the NRA in public and private, but I don’t believe in calling for a mass exodus of their members. I’ve seen this before — I didn’t support it then and I don’t support it now. You’re talking about an organization that really does walk the walk when it comes to keeping people informed and just as importantly, keeping people up to date about the details of legislation all across this country. They’re not perfect, but they’re also a national organization that can’t be, on every single endorsement, in every single district, exactly what someone might like. That doesn’t mean you jettison them.

          Let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater. If you want to support an *additional* 2nd Amendment rights organization and write letters to Wayne LaPierre and (just as you’ve done here) make some grievances explicit, that’s great too. I hope he’s listening. I hope Ted Nugent is listening. I hope all the Board members of the NRA are listening, because they should. The NRA are grownups and they can take it.

          What I didn’t like more than anything on second thought was the panicky tone of the original post, as though the NRA were a bunch of ineffectual closet lefties and the End Times were coming. I know they’re not.

          Here in Massachusetts I rely on the NRA and also local organizations like GOAL and now COMM2A (www.COMM2A.com). But I have very serious doubts that either of those two groups would be as effective or organized if the NRA were to cease to exist and I don’t want to see that happen. There comes a point when people here at Redstate and particularly gun owners start saying things that when taken out of context sound a lot like something E.J. Dionne or – gawd forbid – Michael Bloomberg might say.

          “Oh, by all means I agree, and I think people should cancel their NRA memberships. Please!! Do it right away!”

          There’s a balance to be struck in other words. This whole bit about the NRA having “lost their minds and their souls” left me cold. I still don’t like it.

          Now, you think Chris Cox is ineffective? You think he’s too much of a dissembler? Maybe the NRA has gotten a little too cozy with some politicos you don’t support? OK, I grok that. But this ne-plus-ultra “The NRA has Abandoned Us” baloney needs to stop.

          • kowalski

            Tomblin does indeed have an “A” rating from the NRA and his opponent had an “AQ” rating. The difference reflects the fact that one of them had taken concrete actions as a seated politician and the other had done a lot of talking.

            Even if it’s good talking, it’s still just talking until you are actually in the hothouse. Come to Massachusetts some time and find out what that really means if you doubt it.

          • kowalski

            Has a lot of good things to say about Mitt Romney’s time in office. Not all entirely positive, but not bad:

            http://www.goal.org/newspages/romney.html

            So before people start flying off the handle, saying people have “lost their souls” and calling for mass exoduses and making unsupportable comments and diary entries, they should check the facts with the people who were actually in the places they’re referring to.

            And now I’m done for tonight. Fight on RoguePolitics. No particular offense meant.

        • superrooter

          Citizens Commitee for Rights to Keep and Bear Arms is the choice I made back in the day (1992) when I grew tired of the NRA double speak. But,I realized that they are the country club for all gun owners and rejoined. But,I send the most money to the only real tried and true GUN LOBBY in DC. This is truely one our last bastians for equal protection under the law we do have left. So I encourage everyone who might read this to check the organization out. I am still clinging to my guns and bible down here in NC. Also, the GOA (Gun Owners of America) previously endorsed only one POTUS candidate, which happened to be Ron Paul

  • snowshooze

    They do not seem to have a Customer service department.
    But I am constantly and consistently bombarded with calls, urgent calls, for donations.
    Now, as a lifer… I am thinking of going GOA.
    I cannot deny though, the fine work the NRA has done.
    So I am a bit torn here.

    • onemovoter

      organization that has a board that has been taken over by liberal types. We here in Missouri have been trying to figure out how to change that but keep running into road blocks.

      For the time being I’d very much recommend GOA as they say not only do they advocate for gun owners, but for candidates that are conservative across the board. This is so different from the NRA that endorsed the Democrat in the WV Gov special election. NRA has done this too many times, for example endorse Harry Reid, for my taste, so I’m not looking to renew my membership. I am recommending others to do the same so they start getting the hint.

      • snowshooze

        I ain’t playin’ here no more?
        I’m vested.
        But if they choose to turn my guns upon me… I have little choice.
        In your opinion ( They already have my money ) ( I can cost them more by staying )
        Should I bail???
        I think I should stay, and fight from within… kinda like being a Republican.

        • Doc Holliday

          I have been fighting the 2a fight a long time, both nationally and on the state and local level. The NRA is the only game in town. It is fine to join the GOA and other RKBA organizations, there are many good ones, and they do matter, I could give you a list.

          But to leave the NRA is what the left wants, if we leave, they will move in. There is only one NRA and it does a hell of a lot more than political endorsements. The NRA teaches gun safety and gun handling skills to kids, cops, the military, and civilians.

          If you want to protest, give nothing extra to the NRA-ILA and call them and tell them you are pissed and want Chris Cox out.

          That is just my advice, but I know a bit on this subject.

          • snowshooze

            But, I cannot get anyone on the line to dress down.

          • Doc Holliday

            but one other thing, if ten thousand joined the GOA it would make a huge difference and the NRA would notice. Leaving the NRA is not really helping anything.

            Here is the listed number 1-800-672-3888

            I know there are a bunch on my NRA card I will get back on that.

          • snowshooze

            Just to start my morning.
            I ain’t happy with the service I paid for.

  • gawken

    A few thoughts:

    When you have a “single -issue” agenda, this is what happens. WV Dems have given the NRA everything they’ve asked for decades, so there is little inclination to change horses.

    I know absolutely nothing about the NRA, but I suspect that their executive board, which makes the endorsement decisions, is organized along state lines, where by one person may be responsible for coordinating day-to-day activities/interests in ONE state, or possibly a few contiguous states. That person has probably been in place for many years, and has a long standing personal relationship with WV Dems in the power structure. He makes the recommendation to the entire board, and they go along..Maybe you can research how the endorsement decision is reached.

    Manchin’s commercial last year, the one where he fired the rifle, and promised to protect gun owner’s rights, was one of the most brilliant political ads of this century. The NRA could NOT have produced a better ad. So, it’s hard to see them switching sides 11 months later. You are absolutely 100% correct in your analysis as to why they were wrong to endorse the Dem, but again, with a “single-issue” group, it’s a harder rock to turn over.

    Lastly, it may simply be generational. I remember as a kids, the “solid south” of the Dems. It first started to change with Goldwater, then Nixon really moved it along, and now it’s rock-solid RED. WV may well be an island unto itself, and it may just take another generation for them to change.

    We’ll have another chance at Tomblin next year, when Obama is atop the ticket, and I doubt that WV Dems are adept at ticket splitting. As you said, we have the congressional seats, and I’ll go you one more. Rockefeller’s up in 2014, and after spending the last two years in the minority, and looking at a likely GOP filibuster proof majority in 2014, I’ll wager now that Jay retires AND that’s what Capito has been waiting for…she wins the seat.

    Depending on how bad the Dems get wiped out in 2012, it’s even money that Manchin crosses the aisle…the Dem senate caucus is gonna be smaller, and much more liberal/hard left , and he won’t feel comfortable there.

  • d_lamar

    NT

    • After Seven

      RoguePolitics,

      Trust Me, Single Issue groups like the Chamber of Commerce and the NRA drive me Nuts when they back Democrats. The myopia is infuriating, a classic “can’t see the forest for the trees” scenario.

      In fairness though there are a few things to keep in mind in evaluating the NRA in its Totality…we don’t want to make the same mistake the NRA makes by being myopic ourselves and not seeing the bigger picture.

      1. The WV race was lost because of GOP ineptitude, so don’t blame the NRA. http://is.gd/GmidGQ

      2. Can anyone tell me what National firearms restrictions have been passed during the last 2 years of TOTAL extreme leftist Democrat rule? The only change I can think of is a total Repeal of the ban on Carrying Concealed Weapons in national parks. A win for Conservatives!

      3. I don’t know about you But the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has gone Straight to the top of my political radar over the last two years, and the NRA has been absolutely destroying the leftists on almost every battlefront:
      -Open Carry,
      -Mandatory Concealed Permit Issued,
      -Campus Carry,
      -Restaurant Carry,
      -The Heller Decision,
      -The McDonald Decision,
      -Expansion of the Castle Doctrine
      Things that were unthinkable 10 or 20 years ago are sailing through the legislatures and the Courts.

      4. Contrary to the post above…the NRA did NOT endorse Harry Reid over Sharon Angle….after membership pressure they issued no endorsement in that race…which is instructive here…because had people really cared about the WV race, the NRA would have issued no endorsement.

      5. Rather than focus on one rural Gov. race…why not focus on all of the good work the NRA did in 2010 …ads for Dino Rossi, Anti Joe Sestack ads..etc etc …here’s a decent summary:
      -NRA Senate endorsements in 2010: 23 Republicans, 2 Democrats.
      -NRA House endorsements in 2010: 197 Republicans and 61 Democrats.
      -In the U.S. Senatein 2010, 7 of the new Republicans are A-rated by the NRA, and one of them has a solid B+ rating. Not a single incumbent senator with an A rating from the NRA lost election.
      -in 2012 10 Democrat Senators with NRA ratings of F, D and C (all Democrats) Are going to be actively opposed by the NRA.
      - In 2010 every single new Republican congressman received an A rating from the NRA. Even more impressive, this includes 68 newly elected A-rated Republicans who defeated Democrat opponents with F, D, and C ratings from the NRA.
      - In 2010 the GOP took nearly 700 state legislature seats from the Democrats, and close to 95 percent of these new legislators received an A rating from the NRA and were supported by the organization.
      - There are 8 or so Dem Senators with A ratings who were warned by the NRA that if you vote for Sotomayor or Kagen…their A ratings and endorsements would vanish…the NRA appears to have made good on that threat in 2010…we’ll see if it carries through in 2012.

      6. Wayne LaPierre the President of the NRA has been all over the Obama Administration; And by proxy, the NRA News on Sirius c/o Cam Edwards has broken the Fast & Furious scandal wide open and has kept that story on the front burner since shortly after Agent Terry was murdered. 3 Hours Every Night… Cam and Company Blasts this leftist Administration on a multitude of issues, and really deserve credit For Daily Reporting on Fast & Furious. I listen to Rush, Levin, Hannity regularly and I have to say, the NRA brings it every day just like they do. The shows are archived at nranews.com if you don’t believe me.

      7. The NRA pours Millions into Elections as we all know ($20,000,000.00 in the 2010 cycle)…overwhelmingly for the GOP, but also pours Millions into legal challenges in All 50 States protecting Our 2nd Amendment Rights as well as pushing through pro 2nd Amendment Legislation. You can also add a vigorous fight to keep the UN from regulating gun use in the USA to their list of legal battles.

      8. The NRA pours Millions into Youth Education regarding Guns…these youngsters are far more likely to lean conservative later in life…not all of them…most of them.

      How is ANY of this bad for the GOP or Conservatism? So we lost one Governorship in a very blue small rural state?? BFD?

      Because of the NRA 100′s of Conservatives will be elected or re-elected across the USA in 2012…this is a good thing. Sure they will back a few Dems, maybe 10 – 15% …Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.

      These are the only NRA “A” rated Senators running in 2012….all voted for Sotomayor & Kagen so their NRA status is in severe jeopardy. Frankly, all 4 of them are in bad shape regardless of the NRA rating.

      Jon Tester, Montana
      Jim Webb, Virginia.
      Robert Casey, Jr., Pennsylvania
      Ben Nelson, Nebraska.

      Thus, Joe Manchin may be the only NRA A rated Dem Senator in the 2012 election and he’ll be tough to beat based on his popularity and his direct effect on the recent Governor’s race in WV.

      This means that the NRA will be working to unseat At Least 18 Democrat Senators in 2012, assuming their GOP Counterpart isn’t a Rino Gun Control Advocate.

      At the end of the day…We’d all be better off if you renewed your membership and then when the NRA appears ready to back a Liberal Senator…threaten to pull your membership…just like with Harry Reid in 2010…the NRA listens to its members.

      Just food for thought. Like I said, I get your frustration…but I just wanted to point out that there is a lot of upside to supporting the NRA.

      as a post script,
      Here’s the GOP Senators up for Re-Election in 2010 their collective re-election worries me as much as the Dems!

      Scott Brown, Massachusetts
      John Barrasso, Wyoming
      Bob Corker, Tennessee
      John Ensign, Nevada (out)
      Orrin Hatch, Utah
      Kay Bailey Hutchison, Texas
      Jon Kyl, Arizona (out)
      Richard Lugar, Indiana
      Olympia Snowe, Maine.
      Roger Wicker, Mississippi

      • perry4prez

        Why do you want to primary:

        Barrasso
        Kyl (who is retiring anyways)
        Hatch
        Wicker

        I thought they were all conservatives.

        Scott Brown, maybe, but he IS from Massachusetts and we may not be able to do better there.

        Corker, Lugar and Snowe I agree with, especially Lugar who is a RINO and from a red State.

        • After Seven

          I didn’t say I wanted to primary any of them…I just said in a passing comment largely unrelated to my post that collectively our group of 10 up for re-election scared me. Implying they were mostly Rinos. Having said that….
          You’re right Brown is the best we’re likely to get. Kyl is moot….however

          Hatch is a joke and is responsible for more Socialist Judges on the Federal Bench than any Senator alive. Hatch must go as far as I’m concerned.

          Wicker voted Yay on Stimulus 1 in Feb 2008….He’s just a big government stooge with a drawl.

          Barasso Voted Yay on Cloture of S 510 Food Safety and Modernization Act allowing it to sail through the Senate. Another corrupt Big Government loser.

          We can do a lot better with Senators from MS and WY.

      • Doc Holliday

        it started with a Petition for Rule Making written by the Virginia Citizens Defense League, and signed by local and small national gun rights organizations representing over a million members. If anything, the NRA glommed on at the end. http://www.vcdl.org/new/Petition_for_Rulemaking.pdf

        It was the Bush administration that changed the rule at the last minute, too late to get credit from me, but it was not Obama. After a Federal judge blocked the rule change, the Congress got involved. They attached the Parks Carry to a Credit Card bill, which Obama signed. He didn’t sign it for the gun rights lol.

        As for restaurant carry, that is done at the state level. The NRA may help from time to time, but in my state it was local organizations that pushed it for years until they finally got it through.

        • Doc Holliday

          Chris Cox have an extended interview with Gale Norton while she was Secretary of the Interior, and he never even brought it up. Not that she was willing to do anything, she ignored the petition for rule making throughout her tenure.

        • snowshooze

          Better a live chicken than a dead duck.
          If you think you can stop a charging brown bear that weighs around 1000# with a can of pepper spray… well… bring him some salt spray too. It just makes everything taste so much better.
          I used to be a commercial razor clam digger when I was 13 years old, just only 20 miles away from the place where that idiot hippie, Timothy Treadwell was killed and eaten by a brown bear.
          I will not bet my life on the stupidity of others.

          • Doc Holliday

            predators with 4 legs and 2 legs. The Park Service tried to cover it up and keep people in sheeple mode, they lost, but it took a hell of a fight and a lot of time.

      • Doc Holliday

        They put Manchin over the top in WV. And people who underrate the gun vote in West Virginia don’t know the place. http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-parkersburg/nra-s-misguided-endorsements

      • http://dreamsfrommyforefathers.com RoguePolitics

        I cancelled more than a decade ago.

        More than mere endorsement, what ticked me off here is the urgent “Defend your Freedom !” message as though Maloney were Chuckie Schumer.

        The day before the election.

        We can hope next year with Obama on the top Tomblin will suffer.

        • Doc Holliday

          he loves to stick it to Republicans, he is a major wanker. What we need are directors that will show him the door, but good.

  • andy

    When they endorsed Chet Edwards in 2010 is when I stopped paying on my Life Membership. This diary got me to call in and cancel it. Ricky who answered the phone didn’t even ask me why I was cancelling. FYI – he said they would suspend all mailings but they can’t offically cancel a membership over the phone, it has to be done in writing.

  • Doc Holliday

    of cancelling memberships, but to put pressure on the NRA to get rid of Chris Cox.

  • snowshooze

    And this is a very serious thorne in mky side.
    It looks so obvious to me that the NRA is a self-serving money grubbing outfit, the only worse one would have to be the GOP RNCC.
    hoooores.
    Ya well…sorry.
    They been way wrong before.
    Do I call them and cancel my life, or my membership?

  • http://dreamsfrommyforefathers.com RoguePolitics

    By about 10K votes. Did NRA turn out enough Tomblin voters to turn the election?
    I don’t know.
    I do know when you compromise with evil, evil wins.

    100 years of recent history shows we are on a greased skid to hell because 10,000 NRA’s and rotary clubs and other civic organizations and individuals decided to wear blinders and make deals with people who hate everything good about America. Why did they do this? Because these people who hate us said the right thing on one issue.

  • http://dreamsfrommyforefathers.com RoguePolitics

    My decision was based on not sending them money to support folks like Tomblin.
    Your money is gone. Might as well vote. and complain.

  • boonerdan

    I was mad when the NRA refused to oppose the last two liberal, anti-Constitution SCOTUS nominees. I finally had enough when the NRA tried their very best to find a way to keep supporting Harry Reid because of the plush gun range he directed money to in Nevada. The NRA has lost its way and they are now simply a money making machine who is entrenched in Washington-as-usual politics.

    I joined the “other” national gun organization. The other lesson learned: NEVER join any organization for more than one year at a time. Make them earn your support every day!

  • After Seven

    http://is.gd/24QL04

  • edintexas

    It seems no matter how many times the NRA writes it, says it, or others tell it, some people refuse to understand the message.

    The NRA is a single issue group. They believe getting involved in other issues dilutes their clout on firearms issues.

    They will endorse politicians on their prior voting record, if there is one. They will prefer a voting record in support of their position on firearms issues over a returned survey form.

    They don’t care whether the politician is a Democrat, Republican or Libertarian (no Communists need apply though).

    No matter how much we would prefer that they support all Conservative issues and candidates, they will stick to their chosen method – because it has worked for them and the firearms issue.

    Quitting only helps the antis. When a “hard line” group gets a few million members, then that group will have clout. Until then, the NRA is the most effective group around on 2d Amendment issues.