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.
BIG game. (Just ax the impeached *Squirt)
I’m amazed how many freepers fall for this hit piece by the AP....sworn to be our friend.
"I've been huntin' varmints all my life. That's right. Down by the cement pond. Grannie cooked 'em up. Yep. Right tasty, you betcha!"
This is going to be a long campaign. By next February the Clinton/Obama ticket will be singing Kumbaya, and the Republican Eight will still be preening and competing to see who can appear most conservative while still attracting the moderate voters.
Perhaps he can buy a used hunting costume from John Kerry.
Someone buy him a clue. Most “Hunters” don’t classify rabbits as varmints.
Hey, he knows what a varmit hunter is. Better than most.
Who hunts rodents?
Who hunts rodents?
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Now if he said he was a Rodham trapper, ..;-)
“Republican Eight will still be preening and competing to see who can appear most conservative while still attracting the moderate voters.”
That’s the problem with some of them. However, there is a couple that state their position regardless of the conservative flap, Giuliani and McCain. Which leads me to believe that if they don’t get their party’s nomination, they would run as an independent in the general. This is McCain’s and Guilianis last go around anyway. Why throw in the towel if they feel sooooooo close to winning? Heck Bill Clinton became president with only 46% of the popular vote because of “Ears” Perot.
I guess Mitt does?...lol
Them Rodham’s is hard to trap. Cankles is so large they slip right out...
It sounds to me like he was coached to use the term “varmint hunting” to explain his apparent lack of “big game” experience, lost the phrase briefly, then tried to recover. I dont believe a varminter would have lost the term.
Leni
Loose lips sink ships’’
to coin a phrase..
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