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.
They just ain't hungry enough! ;-)
I have red squirrels I am going to have to live trap,, they’re worse than raccoons, little buggers ate a lot of my fruit last year,, too bad I live in the city limits, I’d blast ‘em.
I have red squirrels I am going to have to live trap,, they’re worse than raccoons, little buggers ate a lot of my fruit last year,, too bad I live in the city limits, I’d blast ‘em.
dang double post, oops,
my cat would invite a mouse in for tea,, and a nap.. I hear ya.
We had squirrels nest in our attic year before last. My husband had to find the holes where they got in and then patch them when the squirrel family were out for a romp in the trees and yard. It was funny to see them come back from their romp and look for the way into where they had been nesting. They were confused and mad as all get out, lots of tail swishing and chattering.
We had set live traps for them, but they are smart, got the bait through the sides of the trap but never got caught.
You’re right, neither are suffering from hunger pangs.
:) If the bowl is empty they tell us about it.
Figured. :-)
Poor grip. The guy’s a doofus.
A 30-06 bolt-action hunting rifle with a softpoint bullet is “designed for killing”.
An AK-47 with a FMJ round is designed for wounding. That’s why you can’t use them to hunt.
What's wrong with Duncan Hunter? If you're at the point of doing a write-in for yourself, you certainly can't claim that you won't vote for him because he can't win.
Here's a Romney quote that should be on one:
"I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I’m not trying to return to Reagan-Bush." - Mitt Romney, during his 1994 debate with Senator Ted Kennedy
I tend to agree. I've never been hunting in my life, but I'm a strong Second Amendment supporter both on sporting grounds and on social grounds. Of course, I've never signed an "assault weapons" ban either, so I don't have that mistake to live down. In either case, I'll be glad to see this nonsense go away. I don't think that Mr. Romney can really help himself with these kinds of discussions.
Bill
Get a kingsnake. LOL
Now EV, that’s a quote worthy of a Romney having a RINO card.
Mitt Romney: “I’m not a hunter, but I play one on T.V.”
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