National Rifle Association Unleashes Attack on Gore:

“Vice President Al Gore is the type of politician where nothing is

sacred, that will say and do anything to preserve their own

political future, even if that means using fear and deceptive

means,” Mr. Watts was to say, according to an advance text of

his speech. “His party used to say, ‘There’s nothing to fear but

fear itself.’ Now the vice president has nothing to offer but fear

itself.” I blogged below one persepctive on the centrality of racism to the NRA’s thinking. In fact, the more I read about their current defiance and grandiosity, the more it stars to look as if they’re trying to appeal mostly to the radical right of the black-helicopter, New-World-Order conspiracy peranoiacs; paramilitary militias; and tax resisters.