"The NRA is proud to endorse Chris Koster and we urge Missouri's gun owners and sportsmen to get out this November and vote to elect a governor with a proven record of fighting to preserve the Second Amendment." [More]You mean the "active supporter of Hillary Clinton"? The guy who donated big money (he's in the "between $10K - $25K category) to the Clinton Foundation, which promotes, among other things, a glowing eulogy for Sarah Brady, advice from Mark Kelly and Gabby Giffords to graduating students to "make our communities safer from gun violence," and a boast about how the [Bill] Clinton Administration made "communities safer [through] commonsense gun laws"?
The guy who rolled over for Obama's executive actions on guns despite a clear duty to defend state interests?
The guy who remains intentionally off the record on the Norquist/Bloomberg Amnesty Alliance? Thank goodness that -- aside from guaranteeing a "pathway to citizenship" Democrat supermajority allowing legislatures to pass whatever gun edicts they like and assuring friendly court appointments to uphold them -- this has nothing at all to do with that "single issue." Right, Messrs. LaPierre and Cox?
Oh, but he's on our side! He saw which way the political winds were blowing and backed a "right to bear arms amendment" (after voters showed what they expected)! He'd never betray us if political circumstances created different opportunities, like, say, Kirsten Gillibrand and Harry Reid (and plenty more I could name) did, would he? Those were just flukes when NRA allowed its members to be used and discarded, right?
Besides, the Republican he's running against, former SEAL and Purple Heart/Bronze Star recipient Eric Greitens must be a gunsquish RINO, right?
Ummm... no. No. And no.
So what kind of game is the Vulcan chessmaster playing here?
One thing you can be sure of: It will rely heavily on pawns.
UPDATE: WarOnGuns Correspondent MM calls our attention to a Koster post at The Zelman Partisans. I see they too have noticed a discrepancy with those orange cards -- as have I.
Before you go over there, you might want to have this playing in the background.
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Koster the Imposter, his nickname in his first run as AG in 2098.
Is that when he ran against George Jetson? :-)
There are no more "good" Democrats. All they do is prop up the party of Obama, Hillary, Schumer, Pelosi, Feinstein, et al. Any supposed "pro-gun" Democrats hold no power and exert no influence. They are worse than useless, and are even less useful than anti-gun Republicans, because they at least help pro-gun Republicans retain the majority. Now, if Republicans only knew what to do with it.
I believe the NRA is trying to "cross the aisle" and find the least-bad Democrats so they can claim bipartisan support.
Problem is, it won't work.
Not only do Democrats march in lock-step, regardless of their personal beliefs on any issue, it weakens the pro-gun position by electing closet anti-gunners and squishes. It cheapens the NRA endorsement.
What the NRA should say is, "We're not a Republican lobby or a Democrat lobby; our members come from all walks of life and represent the entire political spectrum. We would be more than happy to support any legitimately pro-Second-Amendment Democrats, if any were to run. However, we haven't seen one in years."
(Plus, endorsing a closet-anti-gun Democrat over a solidly pro-gun Republican [with bona fides] really calls into question the whole "single-issue" thing. They're supporting the anti-gun candidate who says the right things over the actual pro-gun candidate [who incidentally also says the right things]. Why? What purpose do they have in doing that? Inquiring minds want to know!)
David,
I would not have been aware of this had you not published. Thank you.
"No, No, and No"
Not exactly. Eric Greitens has refused to fill out the NumbersUSA questionnaire, and his positions on immigration, even Islamic immigration, are extremely squishy.
OK, he was overseas during Clinton's meddling and Bush's "nationbuilding" quagmires, and he made some Muslim friends. It doesn't give him either the obligation or the right to deluge the USA with Muslims.
This one of the dangers of meddling in the Islamic world. Too many of our soldiers end up wanting to bring back their pals, their pals' pals, and their pals, by the millions, without adequately considering the consequences.
We supposedly go over there to "fix" their countries, and then we bring back all the "moderates" with us? The very people most likely to fix their own countries? So that those who remain are on balance more fundamentalist than when we got there? How idiotic is that?
Yes, yes, we know that not all Muslims are bad. We know that for the time being the majority of victims of fundamentalist Muslims are other Muslims. We know that many Muslim immigrants are not a threat. And it's still a terrible idea to admit Muslim immigrants.
And if we did any good overseas at all, if we want to honor the sacrifice of our troops and the civilians who paid for the "nationbuilding", then the local "moderates" need to stay there and finish the job, fix their own country, not come back with us and transform ours.
No way would I donate to this guy.
Also, where his website lists what he considers to be the key issues facing the nation and Missouri, not a word about immigration. Not a word about slashing legal immigration back to non-suicidal levels, not a word about the effect of mass immigration on real wages and job opportunities for Americans, not a word about deporting illegal invaders, not even a word about the danger of Islamic immigration, not even a word about halting unvettable immigration from garden spots of Islamic terror and fundamentalist oppression.
This is the classic profile of an evasive, clueless "cheap labor" neo"con", Left "Libertarian" or "Republican" who thinks mass immigration is one big happy meal.
You have correctly pointed out that a "conservative" cannot truly claim to be pro-gun -- or a conservative -- when his immigration policies are causing the ultimate destruction of gun rights and the USA itself -- as they already have in California.
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