NRA-backed candidate (Bob Corker) lacks hunt license

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON - Republican Bob Corker, a self-described hunter, has the backing of the National Rifle Association yet the Tennessee Senate candidate won't be firing a gun anytime soon.

His license expired.

Corker had a license with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency last year but it expired in February, according to the state agency. The GOP candidate is in a competitive race against Democratic Rep. Harold Ford (news, bio, voting record) Jr., for the soon-to-be-vacant seat held by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.

The NRA endorsed Corker Tuesday, giving him an "A" rating and describing him as "a longtime hunter and sportsman." The former Chattanooga mayor told the Chattanooga Times Free Press that he typically goes bird hunting several times a year.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060915/ap_on_el_se/tennessee_senate_hunting

[jody]

1. So what? He has plenty of time to get a new license before the hunting

season begins.

Surely there must be something more damaging about Bob Corker than that trivial item.

[billbuckhead]

2. Yeah there's something worse, he's backed by the NRA same as Tom DeLay

[Roy]

3. Backed by the NRA and self admitted lies.....

Liars don't deserve to be voted into the Senate.

He might be asked about Sadaam and WMD. We've had enough of liars, he and the NRA.

[jody]

6. NRA gives lots of Democratic candidates A ratings. Do you oppose them? na

[Roy]

8. I did not say I oppose anyone.

Your leaping to conclusions.
I commented on the lie in the OP link. Therefore staying on topic of this thread. If you wish to hi-jack this thread with side issues, you will have to get someone else to participate with you. There are lots of tag teams on here, why don't join one of them?

[jody]

16. Post #3 "We've had enough of liars, he and the NRA." can only mean you

oppose candidates to which the NRA gives high ratings.

If that was not your intent, you should have said you oppose Republican candidates rated A by the NRA but you support Democratic candidates rated A by the NRA.

Such a statement is consistent with the 2004 Democratic Party Platform that says, "We will protect Americans' Second Amendment right to own firearms, and we will keep guns out of the hands of criminals and terrorists by fighting gun crime, reauthorizing the assault weapons ban, and closing the gun show loophole, as President Bush proposed and failed to do." See http://www.democrats.org/pdfs/2004platform.pdf

[Roy]

20. I don't know what the hell you're talking about.

Doesn't seem as though you do either. Maybe you shoud have asked what I meant if you didn't understand what I was saying.

But, no problem... I will just ASK YOU WHAT I SHOULD SAY BEFORE I MAKE ANOTHER POST.
There we have that problem solved don't we.

[jody]

21. Goodbye.

:hi:

[billbuckhead]

23. The NRA is so non partisan they have Grover Norquist on their board

The whole non partisan facade of the NRA and the rest of the gun pimps is such a fraud. These gun whoring evildoers have caused more terrorism in America than Al queda.

Most of us agree with John Kerry when he said, "And courage means standing up for gun safety, not retreating from the issue out of political fear or trying to have it both ways. I’m a hunter and I believe in the Second Amendment but I’ve never gone hunting with an AK-47. Our party will never be the choice of the NRA -- and I’m not looking to be the candidate of the NRA."

[billbuckhead]

11. NRA is destructive to civilization and supports Dems like Zell Miller

The NRA supports DLCer's and worse.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

14. Destructive to civilization?

There are far worse threats to civilization than the NRA.

[billbuckhead]

24. Really?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

26. Cheney is destructive to civilization (and apparently his hunting buddies)

but he's not the NRA.

[billbuckhead]

29. If Cheney&DeLay aren't the NRA, why did they give them those fancy rifles?

Zell Miller is the poster child for Dems in the NRA.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

7. That would be the same NRA that backs many democratic candidates

You might not agree with their views on guns, but they are non-partisan.

[billbuckhead]

12. Some of the most corrupt RepuKKKes in history have strong NRA backing

Dick Cheney, Tom DeLay, Grover (date rape) Norquist, Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, ad nauseum. Yeah, the NRA is real non partisan.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

13. That's because they agree on the gun issue.

Some of the best Dems (such as Dean) also have strong NRA backing.

Supporting pro-gun Republicans & Dems is non-partisan. Sorry to burst your bubble.

[billbuckhead]

22. Dean couldn't even win one primary outside Vermont, some support!

Democrats, Liberals and independents are all strongly for gun regulation. Otherwise why would the gun lobby spend so much and money and cozy up with such legendarily corrupt politicians?

[Irreverend IX]

41. There's the ocean tides, there's Dick Clark on New Year's Eve...

and then there's billbuckhead with his picture of rifle-toting Tom Delay.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. There is.

He's Bob Corker.









Addendum: Is that a porn pseudonym? :shrug:

[Flirtus]

9. a question deserving its own poll: Is Bob Corker a Porn Pseudonym?

Aha! Thanks for the good night chuckle!

[Lefty48197]

4. Hey, at least he didn't shoot his buddy in the face

Like the NRA's favorite Vice President did after drinking alcohol.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. We should all join NRA

That way we can vote for the leaders of the organization.

[krispos42]

15. $35/year, and you get a free magazine

But be careful, you might become a gun nut by osmosis! lmao

3 million members giving $35 each translates into about a hundred million dollar bank account anually. Or we could simply buy majority stock holdings in a television network and bring back the 'liberal' media.

[1932]

19. We should start a Real NRA which believes in a clean environment and

believes that people should be able to develop and retain the skills of self-sufficiency so that people don't have to buy all their food from a mega-corporation.

[crankybubba]

30. thats a wonderful idea

maybe we could then get away from the broad brush that some here want to paint all Rkba/gun owners here. Contrary to what some want you to believe, You can be a progfressive liberal and support the right to keep and bear arms. That does NOT mean you walk in lock step with the nra or are even a member of it. I would venture to guess that many here who support the RKBA are NOT hunters Nor are they NRA members.

[benEzra]

17. Hunting is mostly irrelevant to the gun issue...

since only 1 in 5 gun owners hunts.

I think the NRA is a bit silly for talking up hunting so much, when the vast majority of gun owners don't hunt; it may be because a lot of the NRA's leadership consists of upper-middle-class hunters. But if Ford wants to keep the gun issue from working Corker's way, he has to recognize that hunting isn't the issue.

Dems and the Gun Issue - Now What?

[billbuckhead]

25. I'd say that too after the gunners lost Pennsylvania and Michigan

but then hunting doesn't have the profit and terror potential that the gun lobby lusts for

[benEzra]

31. Actually, it's merely a tautology, bill...

most gun owners don't hunt because most gun owners don't hunt. The "gun lobby" has nothing to do with that.

I don't own any purely hunting guns, and neither does my wife. The guns we DO own, we wish to keep, and we insist that politicians keep their sticky fingers out of our gun safe. Has nothing to do with "profit and terror potential," or the "gun lobby," for that matter.

[billbuckhead]

32. A gun owning group that has turned against the extremists is now shunned

Polls of hunters place them on the side of the assault weapons ban and for stronger gun regulations in general so now they're persona non grata with the gun pimps.

[benEzra]

33. Actually, most hunters I know also own nonhunting guns,

not only modern-looking rifles, but also full-sized pistols (Smith & Wessons, Glocks, Sigs) that were the type of gun most affected by the 1994 Feinstein ban.

But the fact remains that the vast majority of gun owners are recreational target shooters and people interested in the defensive use of firearms, NOT people interested in blasting Bambi into the Happy Grazing Grounds. Hence most of us don't own high-powered hunting weapons, just the smaller-caliber guns that the prohibitionists are fighting so hard to ban.

[billbuckhead]

35. Sounds like an opportunity for a wedge issue against the RepuKKKes

The disdain so many of the gun "enthusiasts" have for hunters is an opportunity for Dems to divide gun owners.

[benEzra]

36. The party tried that...

Sounds like an opportunity for a wedge issue against the RepuKKKes

The disdain so many of the gun "enthusiasts" have for hunters is an opportunity for Dems to divide gun owners.

The party tried that...in 1994, 2000, and 2004. The party spent MILLIONS pushing that concept, at the behest of the ban-more-guns lobby, and it went down like a lead balloon, and took the whole trifecta with it.

The ban-more-guns lobby pushed that approach HEAVILY from the early '90's--go after the hunting vote, and leave owners of other styles of firearms to the Republicans. But that's bad math, since 80% of gun owners don't hunt, and of the 20% that do, many own nonhunting firearms too. The only problem is, going after 5% or 10% of a voting bloc, while doing your darndest to drive 80 or 90% of that bloc into the arms of your opponent, is idiotic.

The only problem is...that given the price of hunting-land access, hunting is becoming more and more gentrified (and hence more Republican); the average non-upper-middle-class gun owner is NOT a hunter. Skeet shooting is even more so. We blue- and white-collar types are the ones you are trying to drive away.

Dems and the Gun Issue - Now What?

[billbuckhead]

37. It's just a link to your interpretation of "HighRoad" propaganda

The High Road crowd are among the worst people in America, as bad as any other neoCONS, Republican or DINO.

Anyone doubting this can just go to their website, bring a bag to barf in.

<http://www.thehighroad.org/forumdisplay.php?f=4>

[benEzra]

38. So the ban-more-guns agenda was a disaster in 1994, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2004

but suddenly it will bring the votes rolling in in 2006 and 2008. Yeah, right.

In 1994, Dems controlled the House, the Senate, AND the Presidency. Dems lost the House in '94 over the Feinstein ban, almost lost the presidency in '96 (saved only by Dole, who tried to be tougher on gun owners than Clinton, thereby shooting himself in the foot), lost the Senate in the late '90's, lost the presidency in 2000, lost ground in 2002, lost the presidency again in 2004. The ONLY way Dems won't gain ground in '06 is for the ban-more-guns crowd to put gun bans back on the agenda.

The ban-more-guns agenda is DEAD at the national level, and trying to revive the "Dems'll take yer guns" meme can only help the repubs, but you seem determined to make that happen.

[billbuckhead]

39. The neoCON gun lobby got their man elected in 2000 and look at the results

The gun lobby is on the wrong side of history and their supreme court appointed unitary executive is exhibit #1.

[benEzra]

40. And WHO handed W the gun issue on a silver platter?

Oh, yeah, the geniuses at the DLC who thought a ban-more-guns agenda wouldn't cost the party votes among gun-owning Dems and indies, and wouldn't motivate repubs who own guns to vote in record numbers.

So they handed the repubs the gun vote on a silver platter. Repeatedly.

1994-2004, how did the Democratic party fare in national elections? Let's see, lost the House over the gun issue, lost the Senate, lost the presidency twice. Yeah, the DLC's ban-more-guns push worked out great--for Karl Rove.

And FOR WHAT? A ban on 19 scary gun names, a price increase on full-capacity pistol magazines, and a law that said a new civilian rifle could have a protruding handgrip OR a screw-on muzzle brake, but not both, for 10 years. And rifles are hardly ever used in crimes anyway.

Think it was worth it?

[billbuckhead]

42. And if LBJ hadn't signed the civil rights bill.......

It was gun nuts like Cheney-Bolton-DeLay--Norquist---Cunningham---Ney etc that led us into Iraq. Morality is morality. There are no trade offs. Yesterday's animal abusers are tomorrow's child torturers. A nation that passes laws that says it's ok to shoot someone in the back cause you "feel threatened" or makes it so that practically anyone can have easy access to the most deadly weapons deserves everything it gets.

A man stands taller when he isn't behind a weapon and that's why the gun crowd hates us so much and wants to personalize every argument. The guy below is an excellent example. And don't tell me about weak gun reg Dems like Zell and Howard(The NRA couldn't win me one state outside Vermont) Dean. Where were all the pro weak gun regs Dems when they could have helped Dean win? I guess astroturf can't vote.

[1932]

18. And I bet he's pro-logging, anti-clean water, and would rather people

had to buy all their food from a supermarket congrlomerate, like ADM, then be able to cut out the middle man and be able to hunt and fish.

[LiberalFighter]

27. How difficult could it had been to obtain license in time??

Presto

Step 1
Tell us who you are.
You will be asked to provide information that will assist us in locating or creating your TWRA number, and allow you to enter or update information on your customer record.
Detailed
Instructions
on Using Site
Step 2
Choose your license and/or permit(s).
Select the license(s) you would like to purchase and add them to your shopping cart.
Step 3
Submit your payment (if applicable).
You may use VISA, MasterCard, or Discover to pay for your license purchase.
# When purchasing a hunting license, fishing license or a boat registration, a $3.25 internet processing fee will be added to your total.

# If you are a Sportsman license holder, a Senior Citizen Supplemental license holder or a Lifetime Sportsman license holder purchasing a quota hunt application there will not be a fee or any additional internet processing fees. You will not be prompted to enter any credit card information to submit your application.

# If you are not a Sportsman license holder, a Senior Citizen Supplemental license holder or a Lifetime Sportsman license holder purchasing a quota hunt application, a $2.00 fee will be added to the total and an additional 50 cents for each quota hunt draw requested.
Step 4
View and print your license information.
Print your temporary license information for your personal records. You will need this information until your actual license arrives in the mail.
You will need to carry this printed receipt when hunting, fishing or trapping until your license arrives via standard mail in 5 to 10 business days.

[DoYouEverWonder]

34. It's not a problem

If he wasn't hunting or planning on going hunting. I don't think about renewing my fishing license until I'm actually going fishing. Now a days you can phone it in and they give you a registration number over the phone.

[COSPRINGS]

28. You mean....

The GOP might be producing phonies?