Oh – the pageantry of CPAC 2014! On the off chance that anyone was lost, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made it clear that “Livin’ on a Prayer’ as Bon Jovi suggested, – and maybe hitting the deck, wasn’t a bad idea. The sight of McConnell walking on stage holding a gleaming rifle over his head would be incongruous in any other political event, but the GOP and the NRA are downright symbiotic these days. Vote for one, and you get the other…Or buy one and the profits go the fund the other, it’s very cozy. Is it me, or is it a bit odd that this has become the norm?
The rifle was presented to Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) as a “lifetime achievement award from the NRA.” CPAC just happened to be a ‘convenient’ time to award the gun to Coburn who will be retiring at the end of this year. It’s just very convenient that the rifle is symbolic of the solidarity between Republicans and the NRA.
Taking aim from her Twitter account, a lady who knows a thing or two about guns was uncomfortable with the way McConnell was holding the rifle. Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes, in a statistical dead heat with McConnell according to recent polls, took to Twitter and quipped: Someone tell (McConnell) that’s not the way to hold a gun. KY women do it better.”