Whats an NRA (National Rifle Association) model?
The NRA model is: “Senator, I don’t care where you stand on abortion. Your position on the environment doesn’t mean a damn thing to me. You want to trade with China, you want to bomb China, that’s all fine. All I care about is my guns, see. So here’s the deal, you vote for me to keep my guns, I’m going to vote for you. I’m going to raise money for you, I’m going to campaign for you, I’m going to tell my friends about you. But if you don’t —regardless of how good a person you are elsewise, regardless if your opponent is Beelzebub—I’m going to do all that for him, the other guy.” And that terrorizes Congress into compliance. So I’m tired of liberals telling me “Well, children don’t vote.” Well you know, guns don’t vote but they seem to have a hell of a voice. That’s what I’m talking about, a single-issue obsessiveness like the anti-abortion maniacs. That’s what’s going to get a change, not people who simply register to vote. And indeed without that single issue you’re not going to have a
