Right Thinking From The Left Coast
"To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing,
if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

How We Spent Our Summer Vacation
by West Virginia Rebel

The NRA has embarked on another great time-wasting crusade.

The National Rifle Association plans to spend about $40 million on this year’s campaign, with $15 million of that devoted to portraying Barack Obama as a threat to the Second Amendment rights upheld last week by the Supreme Court.

“Our members understand that if Barack Obama is elected president, and he has support in the Senate to confirm anti-gun Supreme Court nominees, [the District of Columbia v. Heller decision] could be taken away from us in the future,” Chris Cox, head of the NRA’s political arm, told Politico.

The politically powerful gun rights group will split its message efforts between communicating with its 4 million members and the tens of millions more firearms owners across the country.

This fall, NRA members will get automated phone calls, mail pieces and pre-election editions of the group’s three magazines making the case against Obama. More broadly, the group will use an independent expenditure effort to hammer the Democratic nominee via TV, radio and newspaper ads in some of about 15 battleground states in the Midwest and Mountain West.

Why is this such a time-waster? Because Obama has shown no inclination to take away peoples’ guns; in fact he has pretty much sat on the fence on this issue. I wager he’ll continue to either ignore it or give bland “I support the Second Amendment” statements throughout the election, and the NRA will wind up looking like the rather foolish extremists those on the left accuse them of being. This is going to be a non-starter for them.

Posted by West Virginia Rebel on 07/01/08 at 11:59 PM in Politics, Law, & Economics  • (23) Comments • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink • Discuss this in the forums
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