Republican politicians kiss the big ass of NRA at annual meeting

[spanone]

In an indicator of the continued influence of the nation’s largest gun-owners’ group, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and other Republican politicians addressed the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Houston Friday, celebrating the defeat of gun legislation in the Senate, assailing the media, and offering a strong defense of the powerful lobbying organization.

Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, delivered a wide-ranging attack not just on President Barack Obama, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and other proponents of gun control measures, but on what she portrayed as attempts to curtail all personal freedoms.

In the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shootings, Palin accused Obama and other gun control proponents of emotionally manipulating voters and “exploiting emotion for their own agenda.” And news media organizations, she said, are “the reliable poodle-skirted cheerleaders for a president who writes the book on exploiting tragedy.”

In a reprise of her use of a 7-Eleven “Big Gulp” as a prop during the Conservative Political Action Conference to mock Bloomberg’s ban on large-sized sodas, she displayed a pack of cigarettes at the NRA event to poke fun at the mayor’s call for banning store displays of cigarettes.

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[marmar]

1. One of my great wishes ............

........ is to see this organization completely marginalized, discredited and bankrupted in my lifetime.

[spanone]

2. i'm with you marmar, sadly, i don't see that happening.

[bemildred]

3. Lickspittle sycophants grubbing for money. nt

[spanone]

4. look at little teddy cruz, he's quite full of himself

[KharmaTrain]

5. A Wishful Idea...

...wouldn't it be fun if millions of those of us who want serious gun control join the NRA...yep, become dues paying members...out number the gun humpers and vote in our own new board of directors and guidelines to put the "organization" out of business.

[Hoyt]

7. I suspect LaPierres, Norquists, Boltons, Nugents, gun profiteers,etc., are too entrenched to let go.

[southernyankeebelle]

6. These extremist republicans embracing the NRA is only going to hurt them in the long

run. I think many people now see the NRA as a arm of gun factories and aren't really interested in helping people. They are out to make money and they are using NRA members. It is scary that the new CEO is crazier than the last one. He wants to arm every citizen to fight against our government. The civil war he consider was a Northern Aggression. What kind of a throw back is this. These people are playing with fire. Palin and this group should be proscuted for inciting fear into people. Palin is nothing but a shill.