Reply #13: 3 reasons

[leftistagitator]

1. Wayne La Pierre
2. Grover Norquist - also founder of Americans for Tax Reform
3. Charlton Heston

These people all have great authority of the NRA, and they are all solidly right wing. I followed the Dean campaign closely, and though I can not find the article now, back during the primary La Pierre said that if he was going to rank Dean now he would get a D. There was a big uproar because he had been ranked A just 3 years ago, but now that he was going up against their golden child * they were dropping him 3 letter grades.

For more info on the new NRA
http://www.jointogether.org/gv/news/features/reader/0,2061,550831,00.html
For the record I liked the bits about standing up for the 1st and 4th amendments, but choice quotes like this expose the true face of the NRA.
From Chuck himself -
"Mainstream America is depending on you--counting on you--to draw your sword and fight for them. These people have precious little time or resources to battle misguided Cinderella attitudes, the fringe propaganda of the homosexual coalition, the feminists who preach that it's a divine duty for women to hate men, blacks who raise a militant fist with one hand while they seek preference with the other..."

Yeah, the NRA is only about protecting gun rights, there's no culture warriors over there.

I don't know how I screwed up the link, sorry about that. And actually, if you reread my post, I specifically bitched that the only difference between * and Dean on gun control was the extension of registration requirements to gun shows, but that the NRA was attacking Dean.