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McCain-Palin Draw Huge Crowd in Northern Virginia

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on September 10, 2008| Leave a Comment »

NRO’s Jim Geraghty has a quick post about the event here.  Reports put the crowd at 10,000 – 20,000.  This may be based on tickets given away to the event but it continues a trend began on August 29th when McCain announced the choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate.

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Virginia McCain-Palin Rally Moved

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on September 9, 2008| Leave a Comment »

You have probably heard that pro-gun Alaska Governor and Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin and Presidential Candidate John McCain are coming to Virginia tomorrow for a campaign rally. While McCain is not perfect on our issue, he is head and shoulders above Senator Barrack Obama and the fact that he chose such a pro-gun running mate makes him stronger.
 
Due to an overwhelming response from Virginia voters, the rally has been moved outdoors to Van Dyke Park, next to Fairfax High School in Fairfax City, Virginia. If you are interested in tickets to this event to have a chance to see this dynamic candidate, you can still obtain tickets online or by visiting one of the Virginia Victory offices today until 9:00 p.m. EDT. Tickets will also be available at Van Dyke Park starting at 7:00am EDT Wednesday morning.

Van Dyke Park is located at: 3730 Old Lee Highway Fairfax, Virginia. Parking is available at Fair City Mall/Turnpike Shopping Center – Intersection of Main Street and Pickett.Shuttles will begin running at 7:45 AM to event site.Doors will open at 8:00 am.

Please see below for ticket locations. Tickets are still available. If you have any questions please email virginia@johnmccain.com or call (703) 297-8900. Tickets can be reserved and printed online.

Click here to RSVP and print your ticket online. If you have a VSSA hat or NRA item, be sure to wear it to show gun owners support for Governor Palin’s addition to the McCain ticket.

Rally Ticket Distribution Sites:
Richmond Regional Victory Headquarters2819 N. Parham Road, Suite 210Richmond, VA 23294(804) 248-6981

Virginia Victory 2008 State Headquarters1235 S. Clark Street, First FloorArlington, VA 22202(703) 955-4255

Chesapeake Regional Victory Headquarters124 Battlefield Blvd, SouthChesapeake, VA 23322(757) 482-1111

Fairfax Regional Victory Headquarters4246 Chain Bridge RoadFairfax, VA 22030(703) 766-4467

Fredericksburg Regional Victory Headquarters150 Riverside Parkway, Suite 213Fredericksburg, VA 22406(540) 479-1888

Harrisonburg Regional Victory Headquarters182 Neff Avenue, Suites 13 and 14Harrisonburg, VA 22801(540) 910-2681

Loudoun Regional Victory Headquarters46950 Community Plaza Unit #201ASterling, VA 20164(703) 340-0702

Prince William GOP Headquarters4431 Prince William ParkwayWoodbridge, VA 22192(703) 680-7388

Roanoke Regional Victory Headquarters3904 Franklin Road SW, Suite E Roanoke, VA 24104(540) 725-7445

Virginia Beach Regional Victory Headquarters512 S. Independence Blvd. Suite 200Virginia Beach, VA 23452(757) 305-9174

Yorktown Wittman for Congress Headquarters632 Hampton Hwy.Yorktown, VA 23693(703) 220-4074

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Sarah Palin’s Speech

Posted in gun rights, hunting, Politics, tagged , , , on September 4, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Boy, did Governor Sarah Palin really hit it out of the ball park last night. I especially liked her talking about her small town roots and her reference to Obama’s “bitter gun owners” comment. There was much to like in the speech however.

The pro-rights community has been excited about this pick since it was announced and many now have enthusiasm where before they were going to vote for McCain simply because Obama is so bad on our issue.

One such person is David Petzal over at The Gun Nut. On Friday after the pick he wrote, “I know very few people, including Republicans, who are enthusiastic about John McCain. He seems to be tolerated only as an alternative to Obama, who is intolerable to gun owners. There I was, prepared to hold back my rising gorge and vote for Old John M. …, and here he comes up with someone that I can actually be enthusiastic about from any number of standpoints, never mind guns and hunting.”

On on the subject of her hunting prowess, Petzal also posted on just what it takes to turn a moose into “moose burgers.”  I’ve never hunted moose (but it is on the list of hunts I hope to take before I leave this world) but could only imagine what it would take because it’s not like you just hike back a little ways into the woods to your tree stand and then drag out your kill after the hunt as I do with whitetail deer.  Petzal says shooting it is the easy part, the field-dressing “takes three people: one to do the actual hacking and slashing, one to push, shove, and hold legs, and one to stand there with a serious rifle waiting for a bear to show up. Packing it out, which takes yet another two people unless one of you is Clark Kent.”

Makes me like Palin even more.

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How Many More Hillary Supporters Will Join McCain

Posted in Politics, tagged , , on August 28, 2008| Leave a Comment »

A number of polls have picked up that not all of Hillary Clinton’s supporters plan to vote for Obama.  One such individual, Debra Bartoshevich, was elected a delegate to the Democratic Convention.  She was kicked off the floor of the convention this week and she promptly filmed a commercial for McCain.

A lot of buzz has popped up in the last day or so about the chances that Texas U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson may be McCain’s VP pick and that she may help McCain pick up more of the disgruntled Hillary supporters. Althought she in not pro-life, Hutchinson is a solid conservative on other issues and even on the life issue she is not an in-your-face pro-abortion rights legislator. She also supports Supreme Court Justices like Alito and Roberts. Is Hutchinson a last minute smokescreen or does she have a real shot at being on the ticket. We will know tomorrow.

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McCain Holds Lead Among Sportsmen

Posted in gun rights, hunting, Politics, tagged , on August 13, 2008| Leave a Comment »

The Politico reported yesterday that Barrack Obama is trailing John McCain among sportsmen but a surprising number say they’ll vote for him – far more than backed Al Gore or goose hunting John Kerry. According to a Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF) poll to be released today, McCain leads Obama by a 45 to 31 percent.   That’s only about half the 27-point edge respondents say they gave George W. Bush over Kerry four years ago and far short of the 65-to-15 percent margin gun owners gave to Bush over Gore in 2000.  CSF polled 1,009 hunters and fishermen, between July 10 and July 24.  The results could be a reflection of McCain’s up-and-down relationship with gun advocates and also suggests the he has not yet persuaded a core Republican constituency. 
 
CSF Communication’s Director Melinda Gable said, “I don’t think John McCain has really made his case to hunters and anglers.   Things were very different in 2004. Everybody knew that George W. Bush was from Texas, he was a rancher and that he went hunting. We haven’t seen that from McCain yet—there’s the unknown—he really needs to come out as a sportsman. Neither candidate has talked a lot about the issues that are important to us.”
 
McCain has a mostly pro-gun record in the Senate, opposing the Clinton Gun ban on certain semi-automatic firearms (misnamed assault weapons) and he supported the Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.  However, he’s not an avid hunter (but that should be a little concern because only the media and the gun ban lobby believe the Second Amendment is not about hunting) and has battled the National Rifle Association over his support for background checks on private sale of firearms at gun shows and his crusade for campaign finance reform. 
 
McCain has tried to soothe the bad feelings at each of his appearances before NRA members in the past year (at the Annual Meeting in Louisville in May of this year and at the Celebration of American Values in September of ’07) by portraying the Democrats as a common enemy.  In May, he told those attending the Annual Meeting, “They claim to support hunters and gun owners.  If… Senator Obama is elected president, the rights of law-abiding gun owners will be at risk.” 
 
The survey showed that hunters have no great affection for Obama.  Obama’s long history of favoring more restrictive gun control laws as a state legislator is likely to blame. The poll showed that about half of those polled say they like McCain and would love to go on a hunt with him – compared to 29 percent who feel the same way about Obama.   National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) President Steve Sanetti told the Politico that “Sportsmen view John McCain as good company in the great outdoors.  They’re just not sure how much fun Barack Obama would be in a duck blind.”Fishermen are a little more Obama friendly, but favor the Arizona senator by a 44-to-31 margin.
 
For those not familiar with CSF, the group advocates gun rights and expanded access to federal land for hunters in congress and is bipartisan.  A number of congressmen and senator’s are members of the foundation,s Congressional Sportmen’s Caucus (including Virginia’s Sen. John Warner, Rep. Rick Boucher, Rep. Eric Cantor, Rep. Thelma Drake, Rep. Virgil Goode, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, Rep. Rob Wittman, and Rep. Frank Wolf).

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