Only a club

The Democrat smear campaign has begun. Their cohorts in the mainstream media, when speaking of Governor Sarah Palin, the Vice Presidential candidate, invariably refer to her as a "card-carrying member of the NRA," as though that were a bad thing. They are adopting the pejorative tone that was used in the Soviet era, when it was implied that the ultimate crime was to be a "card-carrying" communist.

All of us have membership cards to various organizations, and if hunters and target shooters wish to join the NRA, that does not mark them as anything but sportsmen, and, in the case of Governor Palin, a woman who also respects the United States Supreme Court's interpretation of the Second Amendment.