This is going to be fun:
The National Rifle Association is in unfamiliar terrain on the conservative firing range this election year: It’s the target.
The conservative Netroots are abuzz over the possibility that the NRA may endorse Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). This would be the second major slight by the NRA for political conservatives — the gun group also just negotiated a big exemption on a campaign finance bill loathed by the right.
Conservatives say there’s a clear political calculation at work: If Reid loses, he’s almost certain to be succeeded as majority leader by a fierce gun-control advocate, either Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin or New York Sen. Chuck Schumer.
If anything teabaggers will be glad to know that it lends a certain amount of credibility to the Angle camp. Still though, usually the NRA nod to a republican candidate is a given.
It all portends a nasty and prolonged fight between Republicans and a highly influential lobby that has long been a GOP partner in Washington policy battles — and it could hardly come at a worse time for Republicans, who see the Nevada race as one of the GOP's best opportunities to cut into Democrats’ 59-seat majority.
Oh the second part is true. No doubt. The first part? What battle are they really going to fight? All of a sudden the GOP is going to divorce the NRA? Get some teabaggers to say that they're actually against the NRA?