How can any "progressive" in this forum support the NRA???

[KansasVoter]

First off, I notice some of the most extreme vocal people in this forum seldom post on other DU forums about real progressive issues. I wonder of some or many of them are only here because there is a gun forum on a liberal web site.

Until someone pointed me to this forum I would not have believed there are "progressives" on the DU that loved the NRA so much.

If, for example, I was extremely anti-abortion and was a liberal, which I think is not very common, I would still NEVER join an anti-abortion group that would donate money to defeat 90% of the democrats in office. I would never join a anti-abortion group that would help defeat good democrats that were trying to implement other progressive causes. Doing so would totally counter the whole purpose of being a liberal. If you do that you must be a SINGLE ISSUE voter and it would mean anti-abortion or pro-guns is the MOST IMPORTANT issue to you and health care, gay/lesbian, helping the needy, etc did not matter as much as the ONE issues you support.

I could not support an organization that would trash Obama or issue warnings about a democrat that I think cared more about this country than any GOP member ever has. And I could not support a group who mostly contained members that also hated those same democrats. Why would I send money to a group that did everything possible to remove liberal democrats from office over ONE SINGLE ISSUE that I care about.

I would work to convince democrats that they needed to be against abortions, but I would never donate money to an organization that was against 90% of the progressive candidates because they were pro-choice.

The NRA supporters here are doing exactly this. Supporting the NRA when they know they are against 90% of the democrats in office. How this is OK with anyone is beyond me. So I guess if we had GREAT liberal that agreed with everything the Democratic party stood for, except he/her was against conceal and carry, you would still be OK with the NRA donating money to his right wing, anti-health care, anti-gay marriage, pro-war opponent because he wanted to allow you to carry concealed weapons. What a joke! Talk about being a single issue idiot!!!

And keep in mind, even with the NRA being against 90% of democrats we took the house and senate in 2008, and kicked ass in 2010. So maybe you need to be donating more money to make sure NRA supported candidates (Republicans) get elected to you can make sure the supreme court has more GOP judges in it.

So continue to support the NRA and try to tell me you are a liberal progressive supporter. No one except you and your NRA buddies will believe it anyway!