Who is the NRA endorsing for the 2008 election?

they really liked Thompson...they will endorse whichever Repub gets the nod though...better any repub than a liberal dem of the clinton mindset.....Ron Paul is a loser wannabe

As far as I know, NRA has not yet endorsed any particular candidate. You can be sure of one thing, though, when they do it won't be one of the Democratic candidates.

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Mike Huckabee has the best NRA rating. The organazation would not endorse one particular candidate but would try to inform us which canidates would be the best choice given only gun ownership rights and hunting/outdoorsment. Huckabee is the highest rated.

Here is the order

Mike Huckabee

John McCain

Mitt Romney

Rudy Guiliani

Ron Paul

John McCain. If you go to the NRA website, you can watch a video of his speech given at an NRA event. It's really good!

They gave Huckabee the best rating, I really hoped he'd get the votes too. Watch out for mccain, last election he was publicly anti gun, saw that it cost him the election, and suddenly he is pro gun. Yeah, right. Romney scares me and giulianni is a fake. Hiel Hillary is as bad as her husband was, only she is meaner, and smarter. Obama claims that even though he went to the school that taught the same rhetoric it taught the 911 terrorists, that he converted to catholic when he moved in with his mom. Yet, he refuses to take the oath on the bible, insists on using the Koran, refuses to give the pledge of allegiance, and in fact turned his back on the flag during the pledge. AND, he has made no stand on any issue, including the second amendment. No one knows what he plans.

Scarey times ahead my friends!!

right now the NRA is playing it's cards close to the vest. It doesn't want to badmouth or allienate any candidate at this time, because they don't know who the final two are going to be. Obviously if the final 2 are Billary Clinton (F rating) and McCain (C rating) they will back McCain. So they don't want to get involved in a Huckabee (A rating) vs McCain (C) because that could hurt them later.

Now, one of the other answerers gave the link to a political affiliation test. I took that test and it scored all the democrats much higher than all the republicans. I don't think that the test really took into account if you considered an issue important or not. Remember, politics is politics, everyone has an agenda. If a political quiz maker can make a quiz seem neutral, and yet make his prefered candidates come out ahead by a few points, or jsut give them a bit of a boost, you bet he will do it!

here's a nice breakdown of both current and withdrawn candidates

Top tier. Nearly perfect pro-Second Amendment records: Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kansas). Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.). Former Gov. Jim Gilmore (R-Vir.). Former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.).

Very good. Not a perfect record, but still a very positive one overall. Gov. Bill Richardson (D-N.M.). Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.). Former Gov. Tommy Thompson (R-Wisc.). Former Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.).

Mixed: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)(mostly positive record, except for lead sponsorship of two terrible bills: McCain-Lieberman, a badly-written bill which would have given the BATFE the authority to administratively eliminate any or all gun shows, and McCain-Feingold, the campaign speech restriction law which significantly affects right-to-arms groups).

Poor: Former Gov. George Pataki (R-N.Y.). Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.). As noted by, inter alia, the Boston Globe, Romney's flip-flops on guns are part of a larger record of inconsistency.

Almost perfect anti-Second Amendment record: Former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.). Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.). Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). Former Vice-President Al Gore (in Congress, a nearly perfect pro-gun record until 1989, when he switched sides). Al Sharpton (D-N.Y.).

Record of anti-Second Amendment leadership: Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.). Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.). Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.)(very effective in pushing gun control during his tenure as Judiciary Committee chairman). Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio). Gov. Tom Vilsack (D-Iowa). Former Mayor Rudy Guliani (R-N.Y.)(even worse than his predecessor, Democrat David Dinkins; indeed, based on his record, arguably worse than Sen. Clinton).

http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_01_21-2007...

They are endorsing the Republican candidate. Republicans protect your rights while Democrats protect their control of your rights. Just like Heston said, they will have to pry my guns from my cold, dead hands.

I am suprised that Rudy was higher than Paul. I know Huckabee was the best but I have a feeling he won't be in much longer. My next guess is McCain.

NRA likes Mike Huckabee. he is an avide sportsman and wants to abolish all these stupid gun control laws and assault rifle bans.

Huckabee.*