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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: NormsRevenge; MurryMom

BIG game. (Just ax the impeached *Squirt)

21 posted on 04/05/2007 8:14:38 PM PDT by Libloather (The REAL father of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter. Hey, I've got as good a chance as everyone else...)
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To: NormsRevenge

I’m amazed how many freepers fall for this hit piece by the AP....sworn to be our friend.


22 posted on 04/05/2007 8:15:29 PM PDT by TheLion (How about "Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement," for a change)
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To: NormsRevenge

"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!"

23 posted on 04/05/2007 8:16:35 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: NormsRevenge

24 posted on 04/05/2007 8:17:52 PM PDT by Boiler Plate (Mom always said why be difficult, when with just a little more effort you can be impossible.)
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To: Tulsa Ramjet
And what is sad is he is one of the declared front runners. We are scraping the barrel.

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.

25 posted on 04/05/2007 8:18:09 PM PDT by AZLiberty (Tag to let -- 50 cents.)
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To: NittanyLion

Perhaps he can buy a used hunting costume from John Kerry.


26 posted on 04/05/2007 8:19:18 PM PDT by Redcloak (The 2nd Amendment isn't about sporting goods.)
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To: NormsRevenge
“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.”

Someone buy him a clue. Most “Hunters” don’t classify rabbits as varmints.

27 posted on 04/05/2007 8:21:07 PM PDT by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super Walmart for news .)
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To: Redcloak

Hey, he knows what a varmit hunter is. Better than most.


28 posted on 04/05/2007 8:22:21 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Beagle8U

Who hunts rodents?


29 posted on 04/05/2007 8:22:30 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance

Who hunts rodents?

Now if he said he was a Rodham trapper, ..;-)


30 posted on 04/05/2007 8:23:28 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ...... BumP'n'Run 'Right-Wing Extremist' since 2001)
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To: flashbunny

31 posted on 04/05/2007 8:26:22 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: AZLiberty

“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.


32 posted on 04/05/2007 8:26:30 PM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: EternalVigilance

I guess Mitt does?...lol


33 posted on 04/05/2007 8:26:55 PM PDT by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super Walmart for news .)
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To: NormsRevenge

Them Rodham’s is hard to trap. Cankles is so large they slip right out...


34 posted on 04/05/2007 8:27:07 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: Beagle8U
Maybe he hunts R.O.U.S. [Rodents of Unusual Size]


35 posted on 04/05/2007 8:30:26 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: Old_Mil; DBrow

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.


36 posted on 04/05/2007 8:32:04 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (I traded freedom for security and all I got were these damned shackles.)
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To: NormsRevenge
This is such a stupid article that its bound to get 15,000 posted comments.......like the Anna Nickelodeon Smith threads.

Leni

37 posted on 04/05/2007 8:34:21 PM PDT by MinuteGal (The Left takes power only through deception.)
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To: EternalVigilance
I don’t know. I think he needs to shut up about hunting until he gets some better handlers that can explain it to him. The terms he is using makes him sound foolish.
38 posted on 04/05/2007 8:34:42 PM PDT by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super Walmart for news .)
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To: NormsRevenge

Loose lips sink ships’’

to coin a phrase..


39 posted on 04/05/2007 8:35:14 PM PDT by silentreignofheroes (When the Last Two Prophets are taken, there will be no Tommorrow!)
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To: NormsRevenge
I don’t accept he premise that unless you regularly hunt, you can’t back the 2nd amendment. I know of friends who own guns to hunt two legged creatures, that is if they ever want to play home invasion at their house, and they don’t hunt.
40 posted on 04/05/2007 8:37:15 PM PDT by jackieaxe (Unsourced reporting is not reporting but a lie or a manipulation)
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