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Republican Double Standard: Target AARP, While NRA Gets a Pass
From last year, but worth a re-read in light of the emerging NRA/ALEC connections...Republican Double Standard: Target AARP, While NRA Gets a Pass
WASHINGTON Waaaaaaahwaaaaaaaaahwah. The big bad AARP is beating us senseless with their huge numbers, so the Republican Well Show Them Report is out.
And Republican allies have come up with a scary title for AARP to rev up the Right: AARP is the Death Star of American entitlements. Through AARP the Right hopes to do a tricky bank shot over to Social Security and Medicare entitlement reform, also known as their get out the wingnut vote machine.
Then lets also take on the NRA on their corporate donations being used for election purposes, which would blow their tax status to smithereens:
Supporters of the carve-out will notecorrectlythat NRA cannot take corporate funds specifically to spend on elections; this would void its exemption. But, everyone in politics is familiar with the wink and the nod. Corporations can give general revenue funds which will then free up NRAs copious individual donor money from their 4+ million members for spending on electionsmoney they would not have otherwise spent.
Im not a member of AARP or the NRA. Were gun owners, my husband an expert on firearms, but I wouldnt get caught being a part of the NRA, because their notorious mission basically boils down to irresponsible pimping of the gun industry, without any thought to responsibility.
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http://themoderatevoice.com/105462/republican-double-standard-target-aarp-while-nra-gets-a-pass/
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Republican Double Standard: Target AARP, While NRA Gets a Pass (Original Post)
villager
Mar 2012
OP
Put “Stand Your Ground” law and the National Rifle Association's agenda in the crosshairs.
District_12
Mar 2012
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Skittles
(153,169 posts)1. they don't want to upset their teabagging gun nut supporters
msongs
(67,417 posts)2. maybe not enuff white sheets and pointy hats in the AARP nt
dimbear
(6,271 posts)3. They do have plenty of spare paper around that they like to send to you. Could
make pointy hats.
District_12
(3 posts)4. Put “Stand Your Ground” law and the National Rifle Association's agenda in the crosshairs.
The "Stand Your Ground legislation is apparently preventing the successful prosecution of Trayvon Martin's killer. It was adopted by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) with the help of their allies in the National Rifle Association.