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When deciding where to apply our efforts in various races nationwide, we consider whether the candidate has a reasonable chance of winning. Some pro-Second Amendment candidates, unfortunately are so handicapped by local political conditions, lack of funds, lack of staff or volunteer support, and other difficulties that even a massive NRA effort could not put them over the top and would simple be a waste of NRA members’ time and money. On the other hand, some pro-Second Amendment candidates may be in such a strong position politically that little or no expenditure of resources is necessary to ensure their reelection, and our efforts can go to a more critical race elsewhere.
I don't remember anyone asking nra to expend money for Dr. Paul. This is where nra plays games to avoid giving ANY publicity to arguably the most pro 2nd amendment candidate to ever run. Nra is distorting what we are expecting from them. No one is demanding that nra mortgage it's headquarters, take out loans, and throw every penny at the Paul campaign in the expectation that he could win. What most of us want is for nra to simply have the courage to publicly state the obvious: that Dr. Paul is at least ONE OF the best candidates on the second amendment and deserves the consideration of nra members. As long as nra refuses to make that simple and true statement, it's going to appear that they are ignoring Ron Paul (which I personally believe they are). In that nra statement I quoted, nra makes a veiled judgment on the "reasonable chance of winning" (or lack thereof) of the Paul campaign, which may or may not be true but that is NOT the point because nra mixes that issue with the issue of "expending nra members' money" which effectively no one is asking nra to do at this point.
Most of us are simply expecting nra to make few fair minded statements of acknowledgment of the Paul campaign to their members. That's it. Would it KILL the nra to give a "temporary primary endorsement" of all the truly pro 2nd amendment candidates (Paul, Huckabee, Richardson, Thompson)?