Posted on 12/06/2008 4:37:49 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Though O.J. Simpson was sentenced for robbery and related crimes yesterday, thirteen years ago he walked on a double-murder charge. That might be an isolated case, but Gail Collins apparently believes there are tens of millions of murderers roaming free in America. We call them by a different name: hunters.
Collins made her inane hunting = murder analogy in her column today in the course of taking one more gratuitous swipe at Sarah Palin. The gist of "The Senate, Snowe and Dinkytown" is that in a Senate where Democrats will fall one or two seats short of the magic 60, the few moderate Senate Republicans will play a crucial role. Collins focuses in particular on Olympia Snowe of Maine. And while wondering why McCain didn't choose her as his running mate, the columnist gets off her smear on Palin, and hunters in general [emphasis added]:
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Last lived there in 1991.
Mom and Dad lived outside Sanger til Dad died, we now watch my Mom up here in Idaho.
Got one brother still in Denton. My brother Greg died five years ago of cancer.
Seen all of the growth. Noticed that the Razopr Ranch sold out now and a big development is going in there along University.
Simply in the spirit of picking nits, those are caribou, not elk. Alaska’s only shortcoming is that there are no elk.
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