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Romney aims again to explain hunting ('I'm a varmint hunter, not a big game hunter')
AP on Yahoo ^ | 4/5/07 | Emily Udell - ap

Posted on 04/05/2007 7:43:42 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

INDIANAPOLIS - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is taking a second shot at describing his hunting experience.

The former Massachusetts governor has called himself a lifelong hunter, yet his campaign acknowledged that he has been on just two hunting trips — one when he was 15 and the other just last year.

Campaigning in Indianapolis on Thursday, Romney said he has hunted small game since his youth.

"I'm not a big-game hunter. I've made that very clear," he said. "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."

In Keene, N.H., on Tuesday, Romney had said: "I purchased a gun when I was a young man. I've been a hunter pretty much all my life." The next day, the campaign said Romney hunted rabbits in Idaho with cousins as a teenager and shot quail with GOP donors at a game preserve in Georgia in 2006.

Campaign spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said Wednesday that Romney wasn't trying to mislead anyone, and he promoted Romney's support of gun-ownership rights.

Romney has also supported gun control. When he ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 1994 he backed the Brady law and a ban on assault-style rifles. As governor, he supported the state's strict gun-control laws and signed into law one of the nation's tougher assault weapons laws.

He joined the National Rifle Association last August as a "Lifetime" member.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: antigun; banglist; biggame; guns; hunting; romney; varmint
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To: TheLion

BS.


141 posted on 04/06/2007 8:31:51 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance

We all know.


142 posted on 04/06/2007 8:34:24 PM PDT by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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To: EternalVigilance

Not BS....it is the truth....somthing you seem adverse too.


143 posted on 04/06/2007 8:34:35 PM PDT by TheLion (How about "Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement," for a change)
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To: Howlin

You all know what?


144 posted on 04/06/2007 8:35:02 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: TheLion
Wrong. You're using the deceptive language of the Left, just like Romney:

No....Romney merely supported a woman’s right to choose

145 posted on 04/06/2007 8:36:31 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1812887/posts?page=131#131


146 posted on 04/06/2007 8:37:31 PM PDT by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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To: EternalVigilance
Lots of ways.

Then why haven't you done it?

147 posted on 04/06/2007 8:38:14 PM PDT by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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To: EternalVigilance

Exactly....because he was never liberal enough to come right out and support it. How does one govern in a liberal la la land like Mass?


148 posted on 04/06/2007 8:39:02 PM PDT by TheLion (How about "Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement," for a change)
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To: Howlin

Is that your “source”? LOL...


149 posted on 04/06/2007 8:40:53 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: TheLion
Exactly....because he was never liberal enough to come right out and support it.

There are several youtube videos of Romney, in his own words, that prove you wrong.

150 posted on 04/06/2007 8:41:58 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance

I doubt it....even though you so want to believe it. Einstein was right....you show your stripes by the continued attacks upon this great American....meanwhile, what have you accomplished?


151 posted on 04/06/2007 8:45:11 PM PDT by TheLion (How about "Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement," for a change)
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To: NormsRevenge

I varmint hunter might work well with curent congress!


152 posted on 04/06/2007 8:47:17 PM PDT by ThomasThomas
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To: TheLion
“Great American”? He was the most liberal governor in America. You have weird standards for greatness.
153 posted on 04/06/2007 8:48:02 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance

I’m sure you wish that were true.


154 posted on 04/06/2007 8:48:31 PM PDT by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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To: Howlin; Jim Robinson

I’m sure you wish you could post whatever you wanted to here.


155 posted on 04/06/2007 8:49:25 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance

Geez, what a tattler you are.

I wasn’t threatening you, you whimp.

I simply said we all know.


156 posted on 04/06/2007 8:50:25 PM PDT by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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To: Howlin

You don’t know anything.


157 posted on 04/06/2007 8:51:00 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance

LOL............just LOL @ you, you silly boob.


158 posted on 04/06/2007 8:52:37 PM PDT by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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To: EternalVigilance

Actually, Romney has always been conservative and there have been many posts around here to attest to that....you appear clueless.

Keep attacking him, it helped me to take a closer look and I found out the truth about all of your misrepresentations.

Because of you, I now think Romney is our best choice....thank you!

The more you attack, the closer people are going to want to look at the facts.

Romney and America owe you a heap of gratitude!


159 posted on 04/06/2007 8:56:15 PM PDT by TheLion (How about "Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement," for a change)
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To: Howlin; Registered; Jim Robinson

You’re the joke, Howlin.

We were here discussing the Presidential candidates and their relative conservatism. Then your new little drone Registered introduced a personal attack against me.

I guess you don’t remember the time you had him banned for posting your personal information on FR?


160 posted on 04/06/2007 8:56:31 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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