He should loose the next re-election in 04', no support from gun owners. Maybe the 04' socialist-democrat presidental canidate.
[url]http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2001/5/20/110216[/url]
LaPierre Goes Head-to-Head on ABC's 'This
Week' - Is McCain Going to Bolt?
On the Sunday talk show circuit this morning, NRA
Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre (on ABC’s "This
Week”) strongly reiterated his disappointment with Sen.
John McCain, R-Ariz., for his "assaults on the First
Amendment" (with his campaign finance reform bill) and the
Second Amendment (with his bill to impose stricter
background checks at gun shows).
On the same program, McCain recalled LaPierre had
campaigned against him and for George W. Bush in last
year’s South Carolina primaries, and described the NRA and
just "another special-interest group.”
That comment may have made the senator’s break with the
NRA complete.
Some Washington pundits are already quietly expressing the
belief that McCain may, in fact, be planning to bolt the
Republican Party.
McCain has been a staunch NRA ally for decades, and he is
well aware the group is considered one of the strongest
grassroots groups in the Republican Party - and perhaps
more so in his home state of Arizona.
McCain is up for Senate re-election in 2004, the same year
as the next presidential election. Analysts say the buzz
may try to get on a Democrat ticket, and his break with
the NRA is just one sign of his plans. Under the
McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill, asserted LaPierre,
huge conglomerates such as Viacom, AOL/Time Warner, GE/NBC
and others could say "anything they want” and "bring on
Rosie O’Donnell and Barbra Streisand” and preach their
anti-gun message, but the NRA would have to shut up 60
days before the election.
That is not the sort of thing that is in tune with the
spirit of freedom "here in the United States of America,”
he added, "but is something more familiar in countries
far, far away.” Whereupon, "This Week” host Sam Donaldson
thanked LaPierre for "appearing on this huge [Disney/ABC]
conglomerate.”