YoseMITTe Romney
April 6, 2007 | Permalink
Earlier this week at a campaign stop in Keen, N.H., Gov. Mitt Romney called himself a lifelong hunter…
“I purchased a gun when I was a young man. I’ve been a hunter pretty much all my life.”
It turned out that Mitt has only hunted twice in his life…
as a 15-year-old, when he hunted rabbits with his cousins on a ranch in Idaho, and last year, when he shot quail on a fenced game preserve in Georgia.
Of course, Gov. Romney has received some flak for this misrepresentation. Instead of letting the story die, he decided to add fuel to the fire today by talking like Yosemite Sam…
“I’m not a big-game hunter. I’ve made that very clear…I’ve always been a rodent and rabbit hunter. Small varmints, if you will. I began when I was 15 or so and I have hunted those kinds of varmints since then. More than two times.”
Why is he dragging this on? It just seems silly on many levels, to me.
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Mitt looks about as much like a hunter as John Kerry did. His advisors just need to tell him to shut up.
Yup. Agreed.
Republicans need to realize that the Reagan Right has officially collapsed. If they want to swing drastically to the right, they need to aim for the center and not pretend to be going anywhere else.
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