Tag: Winsome Earle-Sears

Cutting It Close

President Donald Trump is making a final multimillion-dollar investment in Tuesday’s statewide elections in New Jersey and Virginia, in an effort to turn out MAGA voters who tend to sit out off-year elections when Trump isn’t on the ballot… Republican operatives are tracking down low-propensity GOP voters, and then reaching out to those voters through phone-banking efforts, or through digital and social media targeting ads. [More]

They’re finally getting around to this exact plan? Isn’t asteroid deflection more effective when its farther away?

Especially when it’s a yuge asteroid…?

Let’s hope it’s not too little too late. I guess we’ll know soon enough.

Yes, Virginia Gun Owners, There Is a Governor’s Race

Gun Owners of America, Gun Owners Foundation Successful in Overturning Virginia’s Universal Background Check Law; Judge Halts Enforcement [More]

So what are the odds that it will be appealed, especially if Spanberger wins?

I mean, it’s not like we can count on NRA-endorsed Jason Miyares should he beat Jay Jones:

AG Miyares continues his Second Amendment betrayal

Here’s the thing– I’ve been pretty vocal about NRA and Winsome Earle-Sears, but how does GOA explain this?

And I’m getting similar results here and here.

I’d think being headquartered in Fairfax, I’d want a more visible information effort from both my 501(c)(3) and (c)(4) entities.

An Earle-Sears VA Loss Could Be a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Show an enemy committed to your destruction you’re not willing to fight to the hilt and don’t expect that to do anything but embolden them. [More]

With a slow fist coming, you’d think more effort would be put into stopping it.

Thumbs Down on Activism

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Too bad, because it’s a knee-jerk assessment on a great comment I agree with, and represents the kind of self-motivated activism I wish more readers would take on themselves to engage in. Otherwise what’s the point of reading the article?

It’s disappointing but hardly surprising. Grudges and squabbles appear to take precedence over unity in purpose and shoulders to the wheel, and that’s got to be encouraging to the antis.

It’s fair to wonder how many of the down-voters — who would be big potential beneficiaries if they helped instead of harassed — spent even so much as the second it took them to click a thumbs down on promoting the Earle-Sears campaign and telling NRA and Trump to get off the stick.

And that’s why I don’t think Trump finally-kinda-sorta coming on board was due to “2A supporters tagging him on X about Virginia.” Nobody has been writing about this but me, and I can tell you from the lack of comments and shares I’ve seen, this has been one of the biggest echo chamber pieces I’ve ever written.

(And yeah, I see comment links don’t scroll you to the exact one and nothin’ I can do about that, but the ones I’m citing are easy enough to find.)

NRA and President Trump Can Determine Whether Virginia Goes to Earle-Sears or the Democrats

Deserving gun owners now want better of President Trump, and it’s not hyperbole to conclude that if he—and NRA—don’t do a lot more, and quickly, Virginia could be lost to the Democrats. [More]

NRA: You owe it to your members to allocate the necessary manpower and funding resources to follow the comprehensive plan you’ve been given. President Trump:You owe it to the gun-owning voters who elected you to put your personal resentments aside and endorse her.

You Can’t Offload NRA Responsibilities on TPUSA

Guess who else could.

Sure, TPUSA could be a big factor, but you can’t offload NRA’s responsibilities to mobilize its members on them. Why there has been silence on this from NRA “reform” directors is a question only you guys can answer.

And do it in more than a one-liner on X.com. Analyze Fusaro’s proposal and strategy, and if there are specific areas where you can offer improvements, do so.

Because the economy plan isn’t going to work and is going to end up exposing that nothing in Fairfax has really changed despite all the noise.

Oversight or Deliberate?

So why isn’t Republican candidate Winsome Earle-Sears making the Second Amendment an issue in her campaign? [More]

So much for help us help you. Talk about handing NRA an excuse to drag its feet.

My sense is it’s coming from the Virginia GOP. I base that on Youngkin going mum on guns in his campaign, and the way Hung Cao had a chance to show courage again but ran.

Its my belief that party “professionals'” are feeding the campaigns the arrogant old Lee Atwater line, “Who else are they going to vote for?”

That, of course, is exactly the wrong advice when the race is close and you’re trying to light a fire in bellies and get low-propensity gun voters off their @$$es and to the polls. And it makes me wonder if Swamp creatures are trying to lose, and discredit those who identify more with MAGA than with “moderates” as political forces to be reckoned with.

UPDATE

All you can do is try.

Go with the Plan

Email To NRA HQ/Foundation About Fusaro’s VA Plan [More]

I understand some are none too pleased with me for this.

Why anyone would let personal animosities block necessary actions is something only they can answer, but nonetheless fair for speculation as to why. Especially when they know the threat and have the manpower resources but are allocating them elsewhere.

Related UPDATE

The money they’re paying Paige King Johnson and urging members to fork over to attend would be a nice start…

Be nice to know what she really understands and advocates for…

Tales of the Expected

Well the 2A movement won’t get good originalist judges without voting, and it won’t get good 2A lawyers without working with and funding pro 2A groups. [More]

The argument that wining elections isn’t needed and that Trump and the courts will save us so we can rest assured the 2A is in no danger is an excuse that doesn’t hold against even minimal scrutiny. It’s also an abdication of self government and of having a hand in saving ourselves.

If someone from on high provides it to you, they own you.

As for the TINVOWOOT crowd, if you’re not willing to use the remarkable system bequeathed to us by the Founders to do the easy things, I question how effective and organized you’ll be if the things we can still take for granted get existential and deadly.

Still, I fully expected most to not give a damn and the ones who do weigh in to justify lack of action with excuses. Call it the curse of Cassandra or attribute it to an inflated ego. That doesn’t alter a basic truth– if you don’t put work into something, don’t expect it to give you what you want.

Without Coordination, Money and Boots on the Ground, Virginia Will Be Lost to the Gun Prohibitionists

Fusaro has offered a detailed plan, and good one. It’s up to NRA and VCDL to share what plans they have developed to see how their detailed strategies compare… [More]

What happens here will be a bellwether for the midterms. We’re either serious about this — and willing to do all the necessary things — or we’re not and we won’t.

Spanberger’s Attacks on 2nd Amendment Should Galvanize Gun Owners to Unite Against Her

If elected governor, Spanberger threatens to enact every infringement that comes across her desk, whereas Earle-Sears will serve as a veto bulwark against Democrat excesses. [More]

Virginia gun owners have a clear choice. Less clear is how much they’re willing to do about it.

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