Exec loses job for supporting Obama

The McCain campaign is in its endgame, but that seems to make the Republicans all the more irrational.

But in the business world, it's been going on for years. In Corporate America, you're taught to back the GOP party line - or else.

Dan Cooper was chief executive of Cooper Firearms, a rifle manufacturing company that he founded. He's unusual for an exec in that he supports Obama, and he donated several thousand dollars to his campaign. He opted not to back the Republicans, because the party "has moved so far right in recent years."

Because of his stance, the board of directors of the company he founded has asked him to step down.

It's illegal to force someone out of a job over their politics. Yet it happens anyway - because the ruling party won't enforce the laws.

The executive director of the American Hunters and Shooters Association (which endorsed Obama) said the board of directors' action against Dan Cooper is "McCarthyism at its worst."

The loss of Dan Cooper follows an organized effort by right-wing blogs to boycott his company because of his political stance.

(Source: http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-10-30-gun-ceo-ousted_N.htm)