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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
Actually, Romney has always been conservative

LOL...right. Even Romney doesn't try and make that wild claim.

161 posted on 04/06/2007 8:57:38 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance
I guess you don’t remember the time you had him banned for posting your personal information on FR?

I had him banned? I don't have that power; if I did, do you think you'd still be here?

162 posted on 04/06/2007 8:58:26 PM PDT by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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To: TheLion; Registered; Howlin
Keep attacking him, it helped me to take a closer look and I found out the truth about all of your misrepresentations.

IOW, you're getting FReepmail from Howlin and Registered, I take it.

163 posted on 04/06/2007 8:59:18 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: Howlin

Well, if I posted your personal information on this site, you’d succeed in getting me banned.


164 posted on 04/06/2007 8:59:58 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: Howlin

I’m honking!....I’ll take Mitt if Fred doesn’t run!


165 posted on 04/06/2007 9:00:20 PM PDT by TheLion (How about "Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement," for a change)
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To: Howlin

that’s funny!


166 posted on 04/06/2007 9:01:36 PM PDT by ken21 (it takes a village to brainwash your child + to steal your property! /s)
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To: EternalVigilance

Not so....we draw our own conclusions....really not that hard to do.


167 posted on 04/06/2007 9:01:37 PM PDT by TheLion (How about "Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement," for a change)
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To: EternalVigilance; TheLion
IOW, you're getting FReepmail from Howlin and Registered, I take it.

I think you're missing these, aren't you?


168 posted on 04/06/2007 9:03:12 PM PDT by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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To: ken21

:-)


169 posted on 04/06/2007 9:03:43 PM PDT by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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To: EternalVigilance
Sorry, but Jesus Christ didn't speak too highly of those who would bring harm to little children. In fact, He said that it would be better to have a millstone hung around your neck and be thrown into the sea rather than to do so.

Yeah but that didn't stop you from supporting the skull bashing Brian Christine.

170 posted on 04/06/2007 9:04:43 PM PDT by RGSpincich
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To: Howlin

Lol!


171 posted on 04/06/2007 9:05:01 PM PDT by TheLion (How about "Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement," for a change)
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To: TheLion

I’m learning about Mitt; I was real surprised at all that money he raised.


172 posted on 04/06/2007 9:05:25 PM PDT by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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To: TheLion
Not so....we draw our own conclusions....really not that hard to do.

True. I draw the conclusion that you're just another deceptive liberal who fits perfectly with Romney. Your choice of language about abortion gives you away.

173 posted on 04/06/2007 9:05:47 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: RGSpincich
Yeah but that didn't stop you from supporting the skull bashing Brian Christine.

What does that mean? I've never heard of anyone named Brian Christine.

174 posted on 04/06/2007 9:07:54 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: TheLion

TheLion, have you been fooling us all for the past nine years? Are you really a liberal?


175 posted on 04/06/2007 9:10:10 PM PDT by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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To: Howlin

Liberal is as liberal does. Supporting Romney or Giuliani is a liberal act.


176 posted on 04/06/2007 9:11:55 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance

Calm down, Anderson.


177 posted on 04/06/2007 9:13:15 PM PDT by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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To: Howlin

I’m perfectly calm.


178 posted on 04/06/2007 9:14:43 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: Howlin

Try to watch him speak....amazing. He is also very fast on his feet.

He is also one hell of a lot more conservative than the media and his detractors would have you believe.

I have a good Republican friend who lived in Mass under Mitt’s watch....he was amazed by what he accomplished in this liberal nightmare of a state.

Many insider Republicans have gotten on his bandwagon.


179 posted on 04/06/2007 9:16:33 PM PDT by TheLion (How about "Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement," for a change)
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To: EternalVigilance
Brian Christine was the child abuser in Grants Pass, Oregon. His kids were severely dehydrated, malnourished and he had given one a skull fracture. You were rabidly defending him. The parents eventually pleaded guilty to the child abuse charges. They are currently serving time in Oregon’s penal system for the robbery, etc. associated with the case.
180 posted on 04/06/2007 9:22:01 PM PDT by RGSpincich
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