NRA spox: “Whoever thinks the ad is about Pres. Obama’s daughters are missing the point completely or they’re trying to change the subject.”

If you have paid attention to NRA memes regarding this for the last twenty years, you will see a measure of consistency and it is supposed to be based on liberal hypocrisy wrt guns and populist anger.

Diane Feinstein…who has been a major gun control and gun ban supporter but also had a next-to-impossible to obtain concealed carry permit in California.

Liberal columnist William Raspberry…who was also a gun control and handgun ban proponent by admitted to keeping a loaded revolver at home.

Rosie O’Donnell….another gun control advocate but who had armed private security.

The NRA has used these people as examples of gun control types who want the public to be disarmed but feel they are above any such restriction themselves. In our individualistic and class warfare-prone society, this is poisonous, and it works. In the case of William Raspberry, and Diane Feinstein, I also think it was accurate and deserved.

When you see the past examples from the last 20 years (and these are not the only ones by any means), you recognize the pattern that today’s ad falls into. It really isn’t about the daughters…it is about Obama supposedly protecting them while saying “Fuck you!” to everybody else who wants armed protection for their kids. It is classic anti-elitism populist warfare, but it is also very, very dishonest in this instance. This will likely backfire with most Americans who understand that the children of the POTUS have to be protected at a level that other children simply do not require in most cases.