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bigtree

(85,998 posts)
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 01:05 PM Aug 2015

Martin O'Malley In NRA Gunsight

Martin O'Malley ?@MartinOMalley 37m37 minutes ago
How extreme is the @NRA if supporting background checks and handgun licenses makes me a menace? This is why we fight.



Kristin Smith ?@kristin262smith 12m12 minutes ago
@NicholsUprising If the #NRA doesn't like @MartinOMalley, it sounds like a good reason to give him some support.
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Martin O'Malley In NRA Gunsight (Original Post) bigtree Aug 2015 OP
O'Malley is being attacked by NRA, Trump and Third Way today. askew Aug 2015 #1
yep, a progressive trifecta! bigtree Aug 2015 #2
Yup. There's a reason I'm for him Recursion Aug 2015 #4
Damn. Martin pissed off all the right people this week. Recursion Aug 2015 #3
He said this today, on FB: elleng Aug 2015 #9
bad subject line Doctor_J Aug 2015 #5
How so? n/t FSogol Aug 2015 #7
it's perfectly descriptive bigtree Aug 2015 #8
K&R hedgehog Aug 2015 #6

askew

(1,464 posts)
1. O'Malley is being attacked by NRA, Trump and Third Way today.
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 01:10 PM
Aug 2015

This progressive is doing something right.

Love that he isn't afraid to take on the tough fights.

bigtree

(85,998 posts)
2. yep, a progressive trifecta!
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 01:16 PM
Aug 2015
Benjamin Rosenblatt ?@BenJ_Rosenblatt 24m24 minutes ago

@realDonaldTrump, @NRA, & @ThirdWayTweet criticizing @MartinOMalley all in the same day? It's the progressive trifecta! #OMalley2016

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
4. Yup. There's a reason I'm for him
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 01:23 PM
Aug 2015

Hell, I pretty much entirely disagree with him on gun control, and this still makes me more for him, because he intelligently and reasonably lays out a logical position that, even if I disagree with it, is a better starting point than we have now.

bigtree

(85,998 posts)
8. it's perfectly descriptive
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 10:06 PM
Aug 2015

...given the way the NRA is portraying O'Malley as a threat; their membership encourages this type of inflammatory rhetoric. They own it.

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