WHY EVEN THE NRA IS BLITZING SEN. RICHARD LUGAR:

What is interesting is that some large single-issue groups have decided to oppose Lugar. Club for Growth, a politically conservative group focused on taxation and economic issues, has been airing ads in Indiana saying, “Lugar voted for each and every Obama Supreme Court Justice…. Indiana conservatives deserve better than Obama’s favorite Republican.”

Those votes also angered the NRA into rallying its 100,000 Indiana members to vote against Lugar.

A few decades ago Lugar had an “A” rating from the NRA. He now has an “F.” The fact that the NRA is not bashful about attacking an “establishment” Republican in a primary breaks a lot of popular misconceptions about the NRA and says something profound about the current state of American politics.

NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris Cox told me, “We haven’t engaged in many primary elections but I have to tell you, this decision was easy. Richard Mourdock is a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and Lugar is not. Lugar got his ‘F’ rating from the NRA the old fashioned way, he earned it.”

To put this in perspective Cox said, “Senator Harry Reid actually has a better record of protecting the Second Amendment than Senator Lugar.”

Ouch.