Untold Story of Election 2008: The Death of the NRA

[Werewolf]

Silly, silly journalists.  They think that they can make something true just by reporting on it.

Sarcasm noted... 

That said:

There's way more truth in what HTG has said than most realize.

[Bogie]

Actually, I do think that the gun vote was fragmented. Fragmented enough, at least... Say you've got 5,000,000 NRA votes... I'm guessing that at least 10% of them went toward fringe or protest candidates, and likely a sizable percentage also voted Obama based on other issues (like, doh, change, you know?). Or just didn't vote.
 
All they needed to was have good voters do nothing.

[MicroBalrog]

Or simply didn't vote. Seriously, it's not like the Republicans ran a pro-gun candidate in this election.

[Standing Wolf]

Seriously, it's not like the Republicans ran a pro-gun candidate in this election.

The last Republican presidential candidate with principles was Ronald Reagan, who left office two decades ago.

[MicroBalrog]

The last Republican presidential candidate with principles was Ronald Reagan, who left office two decades ago.

Exactly.

[seeker_two]

I don't think the NRA is dead....but it has been napping in the corner while smaller groups (Second Amendment Foundation, state rifle orgs, OpenCarry,Org, etc.) have done most of the front-line fighting lately. That, GOP candidates that were lukewarm on RKBA at best, and other serious issues marginalized the NRA's influence this year....

Will the NRA ramp up for battle next year? Who knows? I plan to contribute to SAF and the Texas State Rifle Assn. (who DID support the Heller case) for the RKBA fights to come. If NRA gets back in the fight, I may donate to their ILA and save them the trouble of sending me a magazine every month....

[Perd Hapley]

NO.  Guns were not an issue in this election.  No one was talking about them, no matter how much the NRA might have wanted them to.  That is all. 

[Manedwolf]

Sarcasm noted... 

That said:

There's way more truth in what HTG has said than most realize.

Journalists can make something true by reporting on it.

"Assault weapons".

That term now applies universally to every semiauto EBR, because they said it was so.

[longeyes]

I don't think "guns" were a significant issue in this election, but then neither was illegal immigration, and neither were a number of other things of moment.  We can thank the media for aiding and abetting the Wizard of Oz show put on by the two candidates, both of whom were trying very hard not to really run on anything unless absolutely forced to.

That said, the issues that underlie RKBA haven't gone away and they will move front and center with a withering economy and the amnesty.  Can the pols sell poison as an antidote?  I guess we will find out, huh?

[Perd Hapley]

Can the pols sell poison as an antidote?  I guess we will find out, huh?

Gee, that's never happened.