is the Bilderberg Group trying to infiltrate the NRA?

GOA is a much better organization, but not the perfect answer. I have been a member of theirs for numerous years in the past.

They have a recent article written "titled McCain No Way"
http://www.gunowners.org/mcnoway.htm

I am irked by the third paragraph. I sent Bill Richardson, GOA Chairmen of The Board and former Senator, who authored the article an e-mail. I received a reply from their public laison, Robert Duggar. I deleted his second reply, but it pretty much stated that if I had an issue with an article they wrote, to call and discuss it with someone, which I decided not to do. Here are the first three e-mails between us.

Thank you for the reply Mr. Duggar,

I feel you may have not quite understood my concerns
in my initial e-mail.

I never did state that GOA should endorse Ron Paul.
What I had stated was in the McCain No Way article, it
was said that the republican race is hardly over and
only Hucklebe was mentioned, not Ron Paul.

I am well aware of the "delegate count". I wrote down
the stats in the initial e-mail. First off, I am
wondering why you placed that information in your
reply. Secondly, you may have the delegate count down,
but I hope you read the rest of the equation in
regards to delegates.

I am not trying to be arguementative Mr. Duggar; I
just feel that for an organization that toots Ron
Paul's endorsement, the least that can be done is that
the articles published on GOA's web site be fair and
don't slight the people who endorse GOA... such as the
failure to mention the other republican candidate who
is the epitome of the issue you stated was the only
criteria GOA is concerned about due to membership
funded reasons, the 2cnd amendment.

To restate something I feel is very important in
regards to your reply, I never asked in my initial
e-mail for an endorsement from GOA for Ron Paul.

Respectfully,

--- "Robert E. Duggar" wrote:

> Thank you for the note about Ron Paul.
>
> We did not endorse Huckabee.
>
> Nevertheless, let's look at some recent delegate
> strength numbers
>
> Huckabee -has 205 est by convention to control 254
>
> McCain - has 845 est by convention to control 1019
>
> Paul - has 0 est by convention to control 14
>
> Romney -is out but by convention estimated to
> control 272
>
> It takes to win: 1191
>
> As you know GOA has not yet endorsed any
> presidential candidate in the
> 2008 race.
>
> While Larry Pratt has PERSONALLY contributed to
> Paul’s campaign, GOA has
> not jumped behind any particular candidate because
> there is another
> pro-gun candidates in the race. We are a pro-gun
> group, not a political
> campaign or a party. Hence, we have to be good
> stewards of the money
> that our members send us, and it would not be
> appropriate to single out
> one pro-gun candidate over another.
>
> Please note: Because GOA is a Second Amendment
> organization, we will NOT
> be looking at other issues that might lead someone
> like yourself to
> support Ron Paul over the other pro-gun candidates.
> As stewards of the
> contributions that gun owners send us, we are
> limited to looking at
> Second Amendment issues only.
>
> There is no doubt you have picked a fine candidate
> to support in Ron
> Paul and that he is one of the best supporters of
> the Second Amendment
> out there; we have always said so. See:
> http://gunowners.org/pres08/paul.htm . I'm sure you
> are aware that we
> have worked closely with him in the past on various
> pieces of
> legislation, and we certainly expect to do so in the
> future.
>
> Also, if you visit the two URLs below, you will see
> that the Paul
> campaign is featuring a personal endorsement by Mr.
> Pratt:
>
> 1. http://www.ronpaul2008.com/uploads/pdf/74.pdf
> 2.
>
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/files/Paul-Storyboard-1007.pdf
>
> So I reiterate: GOA has not endorsed any
> presidential candidate as yet.
> It is just too early in the campaign to do so, plus
> there is more than
> one strong Second Amendment candidate in this
> aspiring presidential bunch.
>
> Robert E. Duggar
> Public Liaison
>
>
> Gun Owners of America wrote:
> > --- START OF FORWARDED MESSAGE
> ----------------------------------------------
> > From:
> > Date: 2/24/2008, 8:43:40 PM
> > Subject: McCain No Way
> >
> > Mr. Richardson,
> >
> > With all due respect, I find the beginning of
> your article "McCain No Way" quite disturbing.
> >
> > This is due to the fact that for the last 7+
> years you've had Ron Paul's endorsement of GOA front
> and center on GOA's web site. Yet you state that the
> GOP race is far from over and all you mention is
> Hucklebe as an alternative to MCain. No mention of
> Ron Paul.
> >
> > You have formerly been in politics. I would
> think you would know how the election process works.
> At this point, not including Wisconsin's primary
> last week, that McCain needs 71% of the remaining
> primary state's delegates to be a lock for the GOP
> nomination. After that it goes to the convention for
> voting. With all the unbound delegates, the Ron Paul
> delegates who are being covert for the time being in
> their support for Ron Paul, as well as the delegates
> for the candidates who dropped who according to your
> article jumped ship to Hucklebe (which is not
> entirely true), the possibility of McCain getting
> 51% of the vote at the convention is hardly a lock.
> At that point all delegates become unbound.
> >
> > Yes it is going to be a fight for us backing Ron
> Paul, but he is hardly out of the race. GOA stifling
> him as are the normal channels of media is
> disheartening and quite a let down.
> >
> > In my humble opinion, you should either revise
> your article or remove Ron Paul's endorsement on
> GOA's web site.
> >
> > Respectfully,