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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 Bloombergs ban on large-sized sodas, she displayed a pack of cigarettes at the NRA event to poke fun at the mayors call for banning store displays of cigarettes.
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marmar
(77,081 posts)........ is to see this organization completely marginalized, discredited and bankrupted in my lifetime.
spanone
(135,844 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)spanone
(135,844 posts)KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)...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
(54,770 posts)southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)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.