...and then there's Mini-Cooper:Dan Cooper, a proud member of the National Rifle Association, has backed Republicans for most of his life. He's the chief executive of Cooper Arms, a small Montana company that makes hunting rifles..."Dazzled."
This year, Cooper has given $3,300 to the campaign of Democrat Barack Obama. That's on top of the $1,000 check he wrote to Obama's U.S. Senate campaign in 2004, after he was dazzled by Obama's speech at that year's Democratic National Convention.
Capitalists will provide the rope.
Now it seems like they're trying to distance the company from its owner (and make excuses for him):
Regarding the USA Today Article. Cooper Firearms of Montana, Inc. did not contribute and does not support in any fashion the campaign of Senator Obama.Blah, blah, blah...I'm not buying it, or any of Dan's products (personally).
Nine months ago Dan Cooper (personally) made an online donation to the campaign in an effort to help defeat Hillary Clinton and in protest of American plant closures and the shipping of jobs overseas. Three months ago he made yet another donation to the McCain campaign and the RNC totaling over twice that given to Obama campaign.
There is no doubt that the article in USA Today has caused a considerable response. To this end we are encouraged and stand with our fellow NRA members and supporters of the Second Amendment and against those who oppose it.
[Via Ed D, Jeffersonian, and Skip]
UPDATE: Check out the reaction from the blogs. Mr. Cooper, I believe you just did for your company what Lee Paige did for his foot.
UPDATE: Mike Vanderboegh sends Cooper Firearms a message:
re: Ain't buying your excuses or your firearms
Dear Collectivist Lackeys,
Here's to let you know that, regardless of your attempt to distance yourselves from your warm embrace of the most anti-firearm presidential candidate in the history of this country, it won't wash and it won't wear. Lenin said that the capitalists would sell them the rope by which the Bolsheviks would hang them. He wasn't wrong, as we see from your cynical boot-licking of the present standard bearer of the Marxist brand.
Your endorsement of the man who will strip you of your firearms rights merely means that you will be among the last to be herded onto the boxcars -- a dubious distinction at best.
As for me, I am going to encourage all my shooting buddies to boycott you boot-licking jerks. You thought Smith and Wesson had troubles? Of course, maybe you're counting on government contracts to offset the outrage? Selling out your birthright for a mess of pottage is not new in history. It is however almost universally despised and for good reason. Enjoy your 15 seconds of Democrat Socialist fame. In the end, it will buy you nothing.
Mike Vanderboegh
Pinson, AL