[Homestead] McCain & the NRA
bob ford
bobford79 at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 12 09:21:46 EDT 2008
This endorsement really surprised me. I just caught this 'editorial' at Mother Jones. ....bobford
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"Opinions change in Washington. Before the National Rifle Association loved John McCain — it favored McCain with its endorsement Thursday — it had some very sharp disagreements with the Arizona Senator. In 2000, McCain said of the gun lobby, "I don't think they help the Republican Party at all." A year later, the NRA shot back by calling McCain "one of the premier flag carriers for the enemies of the Second Amendment."
There were two reason for the NRA's hostility toward McCain: campaign finance and a bill McCain co-sponsored with Joe Lieberman to close the so-called "gun show loophole." The NRA put McCain on the cover of its newsletter, called "America's 1st Freedom," in July 2001. Next to him were the words, "John McCain, What Are You Thinking?" An article inside explains that earlier that year McCain and Lieberman had teamed up to champion legislation to eliminate the loophole, ......................."
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/10/10175_the_long_saga_o.html
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