Charles L. Cotton wrote:Conservatives who oppose Reid should be willing to admit that he is very good on guns, then state their opposition to him on other grounds. To do otherwise hurts their credibility.
Chas.
Hopefully this won't become a lesser of two evils situation. If R's take the Senate (as Dick Morris has been predicting for months and he now predicts a near R sweep of contested seats) and Angle wins, it should be a 2-fer. Even if the majority doesn't change (say it is 48/52 or 49/51) but Reid loses, Schumer/Durbin would have a tough time passing anti-gun legislation because: a) there is probably still a pro-gun majority between R's and a few D's in the Senate and in any event the anti's don't have 60 votes and b) if the House goes R, as many are predicting and the odds seem higher than for the Senate, anti-gun legislation will be dead on arrival there. Additionally, even should Reid win and the D's retain the majority, it isn't a certainty he'll be majority leader considering the change in the make up of the D conference. They will have taken a beating and lost many seats. Will the remaining D's still have confidence in his leadership?
Charles, I agree with you and the NRA. Reid has been very good on guns. Since the NRA is a single-issue group, for good or ill as was discussed during the DISCLOSE debate, the endorsement makes sense. Most voters -- including pro-2A and NRA members -- however, are not so singlular in their focus and I suspect that most will ultimately vote against Reid for the reasons stated by the prior post. After all, Nevadans are electing first and formost a senator, and even his majority leader status hasn't kept Nevada from having the highest unemployment rate in the country.
SA-TX