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Avalux

(35,015 posts)
Sun Apr 15, 2012, 01:00 PM Apr 2012

Santorum enrolls 3 year old daughter Bella as life member of NRA

No words, really. I guess maybe I just don't understand?

Hre's the story:


Rick Santorum said his three-year old daughter Bella is a now a “life member” of the National Rifle Association (NRA).

“Karen and I are life members of the NRA, and we wanted to announce today that…now Bella is a life member of the NRA, too," Santorum said in a speech before the pro-gun rights lobby on Friday. “I hope it is a long life.”

Bella was released from a Virginia hospital last Monday after recovering from pneumonia, and Santorum suspended his campaign the following day.

“She is a fighter and she is doing exceptionally well and she is back with us and our family,” he said. “It did cause us to think of the role that we have as parents and with the rest of our family. This was a time for prayer and thought, this weekend, just like it was when we decided to get into the race."

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/221531-santorum-says-his-daughter-is-a-qlife-memberq-of-the-nra

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Avalux

(35,015 posts)
4. She'll probably never know. With her illness, the odds are stacked against it.
Sun Apr 15, 2012, 01:07 PM
Apr 2012

Kinda like post-humous baptism by Mormons. No choice.

lukkadairish

(122 posts)
5. The Worst
Sun Apr 15, 2012, 01:08 PM
Apr 2012

All Time Prime Example of Shameless Pandering I have seen in recent memory. Not only can I not picture Santorum hunting, target practicing, or cleaning and safely storing a gun of any kind....he has now grossly paraded his preschool age, severely impaired, unaware daughter out to the gun crazy lobby as a whoring sign that he is ready, willing and able to do their bidding. For God's sake....absolutely gross and unimagined abuse of the privilege of parenting

patrice

(47,992 posts)
7. Thank You! So few people mention the significance of parental powers over
Sun Apr 15, 2012, 01:28 PM
Apr 2012

children. Brainwashing can be regarded as "commitment" and "strength", the duty of any good parent. How do we differentiate?

patrice

(47,992 posts)
6. That's a shout-out to Lou Engle's Civil War II under ANY issue-banner
Sun Apr 15, 2012, 01:25 PM
Apr 2012

available (abortion, gay marriage, other ...) to be associated with concealed carry or any other gun-ownership issue, in order to get at least 2 sources of nearly prime motivators.

It'd be fun to look for "Christian" fellowship groups that are actually gun-PACs. I bet there are a few of those out there, nearly in-discernable from other church-based fellowship activities.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
10. When you have sick children and do not know the outcome this is one thing you want to make sure
Sun Apr 15, 2012, 02:32 PM
Apr 2012

to take care of as soon as possible sort of like baptism with new borns

FYI I believe this was post withdrawal from primary.
IF so, do not confuse this with political pandering ; spoken from the heart and soul and most likely celebrated with prayer!!


I am gonna up their freak status past the Palins although I am sure many here do not agree they are freaks for stuff like this I do

Initech

(100,076 posts)
12. In a "time of prayer" your first response is to enroll your daughter in the NRA?
Sun Apr 15, 2012, 03:46 PM
Apr 2012

Where in the Bible does Jesus shoot first and ask questions later?

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