Gun Groups May Not Be Bush Campaign Weapon

[DaveSZ]

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/2004/la-na-gunpolitics13apr13,1,2467557.story?coll=la-home-headlines


Gun Groups May Not Be Bush Campaign Weapon
The NRA and others were a key asset in 2000. But many activists are disenchanted with the president's record on security measures.

By Eric Slater, Times Staff Writer


The National Rifle Assn. sold a videotape on its website during the early days of the 2000 presidential campaign showing a top official predicting that if George W. Bush won, "we'll have a president … where we work out of their office."

The statement, by now-NRA President Kayne Robinson, was little more than hyperbolic rallying of the troops. He went on to call Democratic nominee Al Gore an "antigun fanatic" whose election would be a "horror story."

But the statement illuminated the hope of many gun-rights activists that, after eight years of tussling with President Clinton, they could — if they worked hard — help put a friend in the White House. They did work hard, and Bush won.

Four years later, some gun owners have grown so disenchanted with President Bush that they may cast a protest vote for a third-party candidate, stay away from the polls, or even back the likely Democratic nominee, gun-control advocate John F. Kerry.

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[DaveSZ]

1. .

I'm one of those Democrats who feels we shouldn't be alienating moderate gun owning Democrats in W. Virginia, Tennessee, and other states with the image of Dianne Feinstein melting their guns down (if we ever want to be more than a minority party again in the Congress and WH).

This article spells out well how this issue helped cost Gore his own home state.

I'm happy that Bush's base is crumbling though, and I tend to agree that Kerry would be much better for civil liberties except where the 2nd Amendment is concerned.



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[FreakinDJ]

2. There is much more significance then that in this story

Feinstien is a member of the house senate select committee on intelligence. Remember they did the first investigation of 911

They had harsh words but over all they gave Bush a get out of jail free card and substantiated the incompetence theory.

More like he is buying silence at a very high price

[w4rma]

4. I am in total agreement, DaveSZ. (nt)

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