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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (169082)	8/8/2001 7:31:14 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I support McCain actually. Isn't he a Republican? What does McCain stand for that would make a Republican think about voting for him? About 4.3 million NRA members are very unhappy with him. Saturday, 12:28 CDT KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Speaking to thousands of NRA members who packed the main convention center hall, CEO and Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre blasted Sen. John McCain. The NRA chief harshly criticized McCain's efforts on behalf of the McCain-Feingold bill that would reform campaign financing. LaPierre asked, "Is it possible that John McCain thinks you have too much freedom?" LaPierre said McCain's new law would effectively shut the NRA out of the political system by not allowing independent groups from buying TV or radio ads 60 days before a general election. Had this been true in the last election, LaPierre said, the outcome would have likely been different and Gore would have won. Praising McCain's war heroism, and the fact for decades he was an ardent supporter of the NRA, LaPierre expressed exasperation. "But I gotta tell you, I don't know what's happening to John McCain." He took the senator to task for appearing in public service commercials for a radical anti-gun group called Americans for Gun Safety. McCain aroused even more anger from gun rights supporters earlier this week when he co-sponsored legislation with Sen. Joe Lieberman that would ban private gun sales at gun shows unless a background check was completed. LaPierre wondered if McCain was becoming a point man for both an anti-First and Second amendment effort. Clearly the campaign finance proposals have the NRA worried. LaPierre said to cheers that if the law is enacted, the NRA might just put to sail a boat called the "Good Ship NRA" and broadcast its views from international waters. He said the new law would benefit the politicians and major media conglomerates - and not independent voters or groups like the NRA. LaPierre said: "Just think - eight weeks before a general election, the 4.3 million members of the NRA must shut up and step aside ... while Rather, and Couric and Gumbel and Rosie and Jennings and Hillary and Schumer hold court and won the airwaves without challenge."