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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Sep-21-07 12:21 AM
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Republican Candidates to Court Gun Lobby
Source: ABC News

Republican presidential candidates will attempt Friday to convince members of the nation's largest gun owners' advocacy group, the National Rifle Association, of their commitment to gun rights.

A testament to the power and influence of the NRA, all the leading Republican presidential candidates will make their '08 case -- either in person or via video -- to the invite-only crowd at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C., estimated at 400 to 500 NRA lifetime members. The forum is billed as a discussion of "Second Amendment rights as a core American value."

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson -- the only Democratic presidential candidate invited to the forum -- will address the group in a video message.

While the influential gun rights group has yet to endorse any particular candidate, Chris Cox, chief lobbyist for the NRA, said it would take into account a candidate's past, present and possible future record on gun rights.



Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=362872...


Giuliani once labeled the NRA "extremists". What a friggin' flip-flopper!

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   Mitt and Rudy will go over well...  C_U_L8R   Sep-21-07 12:23 AM   #1 
   Thats right.  saddlesore   Sep-21-07 12:24 AM   #2 
   Cool we got guns and do not let anyone see are nutjobgunery.  rwheeler31   Sep-21-07 12:30 AM   #3 
 
C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Sep-21-07 12:23 AM
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1. Mitt and Rudy will go over well...
they've already lied to them.

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Vilis Veritas (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Sep-21-07 12:24 AM
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2. Thats right.
Better to make friends with people who own guns than piss them off, just ask Armstrong... ;-)

No Fear.

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3. Cool we got guns and do not let anyone see are nutjobgunery.

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