NRA/ILA Ratings for the November 2010 Elections

sparkgap · #1 10-05-2010, 01:55 PM

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Bob

uncle norman · #2 10-09-2010, 12:04 PM

I'm 100% NRA but they really blew it in my district races. They endorsed Democrats for the Senate in Indiana and in my house district. The individuals may have a good track record but if you vote for them you are voting to help the Dems keep control of the House and Senate. A tactical decision that could cause a huge strategic blunder. I can't believe it.

CordWood · #3 10-09-2010, 04:05 PM

I called the NRA yesterday to express my displeasure with them on this issue. They informed me that these Dems had supported gun rights on most occasions. My reply to that, they also supported Pelosi and Reid for their leadership positions and in the Senate, they supported the last two Supreme Court picks. How much more anti-gun can you get?
Stupid move on the NRA's part.
Butch

PDL · #4 10-09-2010, 05:54 PM

They keep spinning the 'we do incumbents' theme. But they would have indorsed Reid if they hadn't gotten a bunch of negative email.

Don't really matter in the long run. I don't need anyone to tell me how to vote.

BarbC · #5 10-11-2010, 06:43 AM

They blew it in my district too. They support the incumbent congressman who makes a big show about supporting "sportsmen" yet he stomps all over the rest of the Constitution.

The Second Amendment isn't about hunting.

OKFC05 · #6 10-11-2010, 09:46 AM

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The individuals may have a good track record but if you vote for them you are voting to help the Dems keep control of the House and Senate

That's really the reason a lot of democrats with acceptable votes on guns are running badly in the polls. The agenda of the current administration scares a lot of people, including me, who would like them OUT of the majority. No democrat in OK is safe in office this election.

ladder13 · #7 10-11-2010, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by uncle norman

The individuals may have a good track record but if you vote for them you are voting to help the Dems keep control of the House and Senate. A tactical decision that could cause a huge strategic blunder. I can't believe it.

And THAT'S the problem, a Democrat is still a DemocRAT. Even the 2 Senators from Virginia voted for Obamacare.

And as Barb said where does it say "sportsmen" in the Constitution?

JohnnieB · #8 10-11-2010, 01:53 PM

My problem with congress-critters that "support" hunting, is that they also tend to support their comrades that want to define what a hunting weapon is, and then either ban non-hunting weapons outright or regulate them out of existence.

I certainly appreciate all the legwork done by NRA/ILA, but their focus is relatively narrow and addresses but one of the many areas of discontent that currently exists. As for the party affiliations of those highly rated and/or endorsed by NRA/ILA, we have good/bad apples in all parties and for the last few years we've had a bumper crop of bad ones. Hopefully, the next crop will move us closer to the Republic the Founders envisioned and further away from the fictional Utopia espoused by a couple of 19th century writers.

Look at the voting records of those that have held public office to see where they stand on issues dear to your heart. Finding out where those that haven’t held office before stand on the issues is difficult, but to my way of thinking, an unknown apple is far better than a known bad one.

John

writerinmo · #9 10-11-2010, 02:03 PM

2nd year running with no COLA increase for Social Security or any other federally funded retirement. I wouldn't mind so much if they made Blue Cross Blue Shield keep their rates the same for us too, but no...I don't look at the Dem's gathering many votes for any incumbents from this sector.

Mr Pokeyman · #10 10-11-2010, 02:55 PM

That's the heading of the NRA sales pitch today in their E-mail - Accountability for gun owners. Yep, I will count my guns someday. I just need the NRA to preach to me. Just like in 1996 when the National FOP asked me to vote for Bill Clinton. I absolutely need the organizations that pretend to represent me sell me out so their big wigs can get invited to the white house or wherever. Trust no one in politics. In fact, trust no one except your dog. Why is my dog looking at me like that?

bk43 · #11 10-12-2010, 07:50 AM

From NRA's Chris Cox:

"We are a non-partisan organization, and we don’t base any grade or any endorsement on a party affiliation. That’s how we have continued to succeed, by solely considering how a candidate stands on the Second Amendment and the right to keep and bear arms. We send out candidate questionnaires to every candidate, and we look at public statements and the things they say in debates. We focus solely on the right to keep and bear arms, because that’s our issue. Now, there are a lot of other issues that voters have to address, particularly in a year like this; they’re looking at fiscal issues, they’re looking at the health-care issue."

Doesn't seem that complicated to me. They consider only the one issue and it's up to the voter to take that, weigh it with the other issues, and make a decision.

And frankly, I resent it when an organization that should be focusing on one issue decides to try and be the final word on a wide variety of things. The AARP comes to mind as one of the worst.

Bob

CordWood · #12 10-12-2010, 10:19 PM

I'll stick with my original point. These democrats will vote Pelosi and Reid, or ones like them into leadership positions. In the case of the senate, anti-gun justices like the last two.
So much for their support.
Butch

PDL · #13 10-13-2010, 12:46 PM

They said they didn't endorse Reid because he voted for the two liberal Supreme Court justices. I thought all the Democrats voted yes for the two liberals. How do they answer that.

I think it's pretty obvious that Reid was a lightening rod who got the NRA a lot of negative mail from member, myself included.