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The NRA Convention Is Packed with Heat, Dip, and Sore Winners
Yahoo! News / The Atlantic Wire ^ | May 3, 2013 | Elspeth Reeve

Posted on 05/03/2013 6:52:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The National Rifle Association just had an amazing victory in defeating a bill to require universal background checks on gun purchases — something it endorsed 15 years ago — and yet the speakers at its 142nd annual convention in Houston sounded awfully bitter. Several speakers devoted part of their speeches to media criticism, saying the big bad MSM had been mean to them. "Those in the media — yeah, you know who I'm talking about — they think they know better than we do, they think they're msarter than us," said Wayne LaPierre, the gun lobby's executive vice president. "Some in the media try to turn us into the bad guys," said Rick Perry, the gun toting Texas governor. "Acronyms," Sarah Palin said, like MSNBC, CBS, ABC, "one day they will think themselves accursed that they were not in this fight with us."

On Friday, the convention felt like a mini-CPAC, in that several potential presidential candidates took turns on the stage — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Perry — or appeared in video form, as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan did. Perhaps that explains the feeling of doom amid glorious triumph, because the gun legislation victory came just a few months after devastating electoral defeat. And so there were many displays of masculine swagger, enough to show that all these tough young guns could take on all of the weak young gun-grabbers currently occupying the White House. Perry was introduced with a comically over-the-top video of himself showing great manliness while shooting at targets and wearing safety equipment. There's that GIF above, but you need the Ted Nugent soundtrack for full effect:

Cruz dared Vice President Joe Biden to debate the cause of crime.....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: banglist; biden; cruz; guncontrol; nra; palin; rickperry; secondamendment; tedcruz; texas
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To: onyx
If She looks like that, I can understand why she would be jealous of THIS:

Liberals inner ugly and hate will eventually turn their physical appearance that why too.

I think being Pro Abortion does that at an accelerating rate.

Which is why Pro Life Dems (all 8 of them) are actually quite nice looking (Kirsten Powers is an example) but this broad....just...ugh.....


21 posted on 05/03/2013 7:48:35 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sarah’s speech was great. I just wished she took a dip.


22 posted on 05/03/2013 7:59:34 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe - Shall not be questioned)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We didn’t win yet.

The Chicago machine has only started to work. They will force another vote, and another, until it either passes or they destroy half the Senate.


23 posted on 05/03/2013 8:28:45 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

“I think they did file a butt-hurt report.”

Reports indicate Bammy said “Put some ‘Vasoline’ on that.” Other reports indicated Bammy had said “Put some ‘Glide’ on that.”


24 posted on 05/03/2013 9:14:51 PM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam is antithetical to, and Islam is irreconcilable with, America. Therefore - Islam Delenda Est)
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Elspeth Reeve Is a Lying Hack
http://allamericanblogger.com/23409/elspeth-reeve-is-a-lying-hack/

Elspeth Reeve Manufactures More Moral Outrage
http://www.redstate.com/2012/10/03/elspeth-reeve-manufactures-more-moral-outrage/

Elspeth also lied about Barack Obama’s fake Birth Certificate
http://planet.infowars.com/politics/open-letter-to-elspeth-reeve-of-the-atlantic-wire

She’s a dumb as a rock troll that’s also an Occupy whack job that yells, “racist” about anything that doesn’t fit the narrative. (Granted she pretends to always be protecting someone else). She’s such a hack that she went from The New Republic to The Atlantic so I assume her next job will be at the Daily Beast. You just can’t get any trashier than this lying loose cannon from the left.


25 posted on 05/03/2013 9:46:47 PM PDT by TabithaBliss (Obama's a tyrant!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The American Media: I can’t believe it’s not liberal. :)


26 posted on 05/03/2013 9:58:53 PM PDT by Tzimisce (The American Revolution began when the British attempted to disarm the Colonists.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The National Rifle Association just had an amazing victory in defeating a bill to require universal background checks on gun purchases — something it endorsed 15 years ago

The NRA found a whole new crop of suckers to send them money. And they will backstab that bunch also.

27 posted on 05/03/2013 10:26:15 PM PDT by meadsjn
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Here is Elspeth Reeve with her husband Scott Thomas Beauchamp:

Such a beautiful couple. Right?

It was Beauchamp who wrote the "Baghdad Diarist" under the pseudonym Scott Thomas for the New Republic while a private in the U.S. Army. His article was discovered to be invented accounts of cruelty by U.S. soldiers. It is also noteworthy that his wife, Elspeth Reeve, was a New Republic staffer.

His three published columns included accounts of soldiers mocking a woman disfigured by an injury, getting their kicks by running over dogs with Bradley Fighting Vehicles and playing with Iraqi children's skulls taken from a mass grave. It was all fiction.

Perhaps we should question whether Elspeth wrote this latest venture into fiction; but rather she farmed it off to her husband to write for her.

28 posted on 05/03/2013 11:14:04 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: jonrick46

His three published columns included accounts of soldiers mocking a woman disfigured by an injury, getting their kicks by running over dogs with Bradley Fighting Vehicles and playing with Iraqi children’s skulls taken from a mass grave. It was all fiction.


He also claimed to have worn a child’s skull under his helmet. Additionally, he used “highly illegal square backed bullets” in his Glock. Would someone please tell me what the hell a “square backed bullet” is, illegal or otherwise?


29 posted on 05/03/2013 11:17:19 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse

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His three published columns included accounts of soldiers mocking a woman disfigured by an injury, getting their kicks by running over dogs with Bradley Fighting Vehicles and playing with Iraqi children’s skulls taken from a mass grave. It was all fiction.


He also claimed to have worn a child’s skull under his helmet.
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Hmmm- wounds liek another anti-Aemrican we used to know who is now our foreign affairs soemthign or other- John Heignz KKKErry I bel;eive his name is-


30 posted on 05/03/2013 11:24:08 PM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: KC_Lion; onyx

Sarah Palin receives a standing ovation at the NRA convention

31 posted on 05/03/2013 11:57:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse

“Square back bullets”? The only thing I can think of is Hollow-Points and this dumb bitch doesn’t know the front of a bullet from the back of a bullet, nor does she know what the correct term is for a HP Bullet.


32 posted on 05/04/2013 12:07:19 AM PDT by Rodney Dangerfield ("Meg Lanker-Simons is a shining example of a liberal education.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Freeze the target and personalize it. that’s their strategy. I’m proud to “bitterly cling to God and to guns”.


33 posted on 05/04/2013 1:40:25 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey Elspeth, You lost and we won. Or does it not work when your side takes the hit? B.....


34 posted on 05/04/2013 6:23:30 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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