The Mittster Mash: Romney the ‘Lifelong Hunter’
Although I did touch on a gun-related matter here that came up in Objectively Unfit Mitt Romney’s interview with Meet the Press’s Tim Russert on January 16, this verse of The Mittster Mash will bring up a gem from earlier in the campaign (HT Hominid Views; bolds are mine):
Romney, self-described lifelong hunter, has hunted twice
To hear Mitt Romney talk on the campaign trail, you might think the Republican presidential candidate had a gun rack in the back of his pickup truck.
“I purchased a gun when I was a young man. I’ve been a hunter pretty much all my life,” he said this week in Keene, N.H., to a man sporting a National Rifle Association cap.
Yet the former Massachusetts governor’s hunting experience is limited to two trips at the bookends of his 60 years: as a 15-year-old, when he hunted rabbits with his cousins on a ranch in Idaho, and last year, when he shot quail on a fenced game preserve in Georgia.
….. An aide said Wednesday that Romney was not trying to mislead anyone, although he confirmed Romney had been hunting only on those occasions in his life.
Here’s a depiction of Mitt Womney hunting wabbits (HT Good to Be Blue):
Of course, no discussion of a Mittster position or statement would be complete without equivocation and “clarification” (EyeOn08 reviewed that back in April, so I don’t have to now), or looking at how it differs now from what it was previously From the same Boston Globe link (bolds are mine):
….. During a 1994 U.S. Senate campaign, Romney positioned himself as a moderate outsider, warning special interest groups to stay out of the race and saying he supported the Brady gun control law and a ban on assault rifles.
“That’s not going to make me the hero of the NRA,” he told the Boston Herald at the time. “I don’t line up with a lot of special interest groups.”
It’s a theme he carried into his 2002 gubernatorial campaign. At the time, Romney pledged to do nothing to change the state’s firearms statutes.
“We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts. I support them. I won’t chip away at them. I believe they protect us and provide for our safety,” he said.
True to his word, Romney went on to sign one of the toughest assault weapons laws in the country.
Mitt Flopney, anyone?
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