Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney was in New Hampshire last
week on a mission to bolster his conservative credientials.

Did he succeed?

You be the judge.

During a Q&A session in Keene, NH, Romney pounced on a man wearing an
NRA hat.

"I purchased a gun when I was a young man," gushed Mitt.

"I've been a hunter pretty much all my life."

He sure has!

When he was fifteen (in 1962), Romney went rabbit hunting with his
cousins.

Then, last year (in 2006), he shot quail on a fenced game preserve
during a Republican Governors Association junket in Georgia.

According to the Associated Press:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070404/ap_on_el_pr/romney_hunting


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.


Now, it could be argued that going hunting once in 1962 and once again
in 2006 doesn't really mean that you've been a hunter "pretty much all
your life," in fact it means that you've been hunting twice in the
past 45 years.

But let's not be too mean about Mitt's lame attempt to spin his
dubious hunting credentials.

After all, he is a lifetime member of the NRA.

He, er, joined last August.



By EarlG
Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/

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