Has the NRA been co-opted by the Left?


 

Has the NRA been co-opted by the Left?

In the past year we have witnessed the AARP selling out its membership (presumably for favors yet unknown) to very actively support Obamacare. We have also witnessed the same dynamic with the AMA selling out physicians, and big Pharma selling out its stockholders, both also enlisted as useful idiots promoting the cause of socializing medicine.

In recent weeks we have been discovering that the NRA has likewise been engaging in activities that are, shall we say, “counterintuitive” considering its stated mission and past conduct.

It is by no means fanciful to suppose that after the defeat of “HillaryCare” at the hands of “Harry and Louise” advertising by various trade and professional groups, that in an “after action” analysis and strategy meetings the collectivists concluded that in the next go-round they would need to co-opt such groups.

Knowing what we know now, it is also not particularly fanciful to consider that the Alinskyite “the ends justify the means” administration from Chicago, backed by George Soros’ and Peter Lewis’ billions, may have employed anything from blackmail (perhaps using Hillary’s stash of FBI files collected at the beginning of the Clinton administration, plus whatever they may have access to now that they hold the reins of power), to cash bribes, to the kind of political threats and strong-arming that we was employed against secured creditors so that Obama could confiscate their assets and hand them over to the UAW.Oh, and let us not forget the BP shakedown.

If this is the case with the NRA, we must also be vigilant as to what other groups on “our side” have been co-opted and are selling us out behind closed doors.

Even if this is not occurring, the fact that distrust is being sown amongst us itself would seem to be right out the Alinsky playbook that Barack Hussein Obama has made his life’s work.



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Perhaps you could share with us which NRA Board members are Leftists?

Tbone (Diary) Thursday, July 1st at 5:37PM EST (link)

If not, we will just assume your ignorance allows the luxury of being wrong.

Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.

Tbone, I didn't read an accusation...

LaborUnionReport (Diary) Thursday, July 1st at 6:28PM EST (link)

that NRA Board members are Leftists (unless I missed it somewhere), but the NRA’s actions over these past few weeks are very much questionable.

Particularly disturbing is the DISCLOSE Act exemption, as opposed to a full out rejection of it.

It makes no sense for a purported defender of Rights (be they Second or the First Amendments) to ‘exempt’ itself from the taking of rights from all other citizens except itself.

…and Harry Reid???

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I don't intend to re-fight the Disclose battle.

Tbone (Diary) Thursday, July 1st at 6:58PM EST (link)

You can review my comments on that on previous threads.

As for Reid, the NRA is not a Republican organization nor should it view itself as a conservative organization whose agenda is the spectrum of conservative causes.

It is a brutally politically pragmatic organization. It sends clear messages to both sides, sometimes these are positive and sometimes negative.

While I personally wouldn’t piss on Reid, I can see where his endorsement could send a positive message to other Dems that the NRA may need down the road.

Let’s not forget that despite having a Dem Congress for 3 years and an Obama for two, their has not been a rash of anti-gun legislation moved along.

Too bad healthcare and GM didn’t have as an effective protector as the NRA.

Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.

I agree with your analysis

JamesSmith130 Thursday, July 1st at 7:08PM EST (link)

about the NRA. But Reid has no record of being pro-gun. The reason why no anti-gun legislation has moved is because there aren’t enough votes in the House for it.

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Sorry Tbone, but this is looking like an emerging pattern ...

raginpatriot (Diary) Thursday, July 1st at 7:06PM EST (link)

1) DISCLOSE Act

2) Kagan gag order

3) Potential endorsement of Reid.

The NRA can (and has) endorsed Democrats who support 2nd Amendment rights and so doesn’t need contra-2nd Amendment rights steps in order to throw bones to the collectivists and appear bipartisan. So that excuse doesn’t fly.

I hope I’m wrong, but anyone of those three MIGHT be explainable and/or excusable, but three in tandem is looking like an emerging pattern and practice very much at odds with what the NRA is supposed to be about.

Your hope has been answered. nt

Tbone (Diary) Thursday, July 1st at 8:51PM EST (link)

Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.

Tbone, your certitude

raginpatriot (Diary) Thursday, July 1st at 11:36PM EST (link)

Tbone,

Your certitude concerning my being “wrong” can be explained three ways:

1) You are inside the NRA and its high-level deliberations and know whereof you speak — in which case you should disclose identities and details to confirm same; or

2) You’re a troll enlisted by Organizing for America (or something similar) to oppose and/or defend on the blogs, depending upon that day’s marching orders you receive from Herr Goebbels, err, I mean Herr Soros; or

3) You’re PUI (posting under the influence) of too much NRA Kool-Aid over the years, and can’t comprehend to possibility that the organization has been co-opted.

I've been her 5 years sparky and I'm not even a member

Tbone (Diary) Friday, July 2nd at 1:28AM EST (link)

of the NRA. However, having more than a 2 digit IQ enabling me to understand the rather rudimentary politics required to run a 4 million member organization where a significant percentage of that membership are Democrats, allows me to identify your posts as lacking both substance and rational thought.

I know that these concepts may be hard for you to understand, but your dog doesn’t understand how you can work a doorknob. Kinda the same thing.

Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.

Yeah, right ...

raginpatriot (Diary) Friday, July 2nd at 10:10AM EST (link)

Yeah right Tbone. Your inability to argue on the merits, but instead reliance upon stating generalities and insulting and impugning the other party, is obvious evidence of your superior intellect.

The same demonstration of intellectual superiority employed by Leftists for decades now (e.g., “Reagan is a dunce” and “George W. Bush is an idiot” and “the Tea Baggers are racist”).

Your vehement reaction is convincing this “inferior intellect” that you’re either a troll or that the supposition presented in my post has really hit a nerve, and so may well be spot-on.