Posted on 07/28/2004 9:21:35 AM PDT by kattracks
Doh! A deer!
Apparently hoping to outdo Hillary Clinton's improbable attempt to reinvent herself as a duck hunter, John Kerry has tried to avoid alienating supporters of gun rights by depicting himself as a deer hunter. Mark Steyn will have none of it.Steyn wrote in the London Telegraph yesterday:
"He was in Wisconsin the other day, pretending to be a regular guy, and was asked what kind of hunting he preferred. 'I'd have to say deer,' said the senator. 'I go out with my trusty 12-gauge double-barrel, crawl around on my stomach ... That's hunting.'
"This caused huge hilarity among my New Hampshire neighbours. None of us has ever heard of anybody deer hunting by crawling around on his stomach, even in Massachusetts. The trick is to blend in with the woods and, given that John Kerry already looks like a forlorn tree in late fall, it's hard to see why he'd give up his natural advantage in order to hunt horizontally.
Oh, Pooh
"Possibly his weird Vietnam nostalgia is getting out of control. Still, if I come across a guy in the woods in deer season inching through the undergrowth with a mouthful of bear scat, at least I'll know who it is," Steyn noted.
Considering that these days Kerry looks more like a bunny wabbit than Elmer Fudd, perhaps he could use a refresher course from Gun Owners of America, which, by the way, he still hasn't met with, despite his phony claim that he'd meet with any critical group.
No, that's ludicrous.
LOL
The ignorant should not speak.
bwahahahaha! this was a LEAK, right??? a DIRTY TRICK of some kind to make him look like a doofus??!!!
/never hunted
Yep...Some do use slug guns for....Venture to say..small minority back in Missouri/MidWest...Must be different in Mass.
Wonder if the NRA might possibly want to include that quote in some of their campaign literature?
Oh yeah, I hunt for deer all the time on my stomach! LMAO
not a hunter myself, but i think you use a rifle and get up in a deer stand.
Three more months of Kerry and Ms. Kerry "being themselves." I can hardly wait.
Wonder if the NRA might possibly want to include that quote in some of their campaign literature?
No. /Never-hunted-deer-but-know-better
Yeah, that's what I thought. Maybe these are underground deer hiding in trenchs or something.
That's the way to hunt snipe too. I wonder if kerry ever went snipe hunting
I've never seen slug barrels on a double-barrel, but I won't go so far as to say they don't exist.
I don't hunt, though. I mostly have the 'evil black composite' kind of weapon :)
Just another example of just how out of touch JF'nK really is with your average "Joe."
I don't even hunt (I do enjoy shooting at the range, though), and I know he's full of it.
Kerry is probably only really worried about what weapon is used to hunt rabbits.
That's what his friends told him. "No, John, you're hunting snipe. We're hunting deer. Just stay here and crawl around on your stomach; we'll go up over that ridge and look for deer." He just forgot, and thought that he was hunting deer that one time.
Actually, I've also heard in addition to ambushing his quarry, sometimes he enjoys sneaking up on them in a ninja suit and slitting their throats while they sleep.
True story.
/Wasn't their a Vietnam movie called 'The Deer Hunter'? Did it feature Kerry?
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