NRA = right-wing = Republican = mine owners = capitalist big-wigs = opressors of the masses.

No, it couldn’t be that many labor unions and the Democrat Party derive mutual power from each other, thus keeping the union hierarchy in the “do – re – mi” (to employ an anachronistc term).

Cue Pete Seeger. Cue the IWW. Solidarity forever!

Traditional labor unions: Stuck in the past; stuck on stupid.

I grew up fifteen minutes from that particular coal mine. My dad used to work there. My granddad used to sit on the UMW board. Union support runs deep in these areas. But so does individual liberty and the right to keep and bear arms. I predict the union vote in WV is going to be nearly evenly split.

I am personally offended that the union is using their power to push members towards voting for someone who will limit their rights. I understand why they believe Obama will be good for unions. He will be. But the unions are (per their normal MO) being dishonest about matters not relevant to the union itself. If they want to tell UMW members that they’ll make more money and get more time off (assuming they still have jobs) that’s fine. But to assume that coal miners are dumb enough to trust Barack Obama on with their Second Amendment rights… well that’s just lunacy. Unfortunately, most of this particular demographic are not one-issue-second-amendment voters. That is why their vote will be split.