Romney, self-described lifelong hunter, has hunted on two occasions

[240 is Back]

BOSTON - 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.

    Last year's trip was an outing with major donors to the Republican Governors Association, which Romney headed at the time.

    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.

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He may have raised the most money so far amongst republican candidates, but I just don't see him getting the nomination.

[240 is Back]

This little snafu will hurt him with the gun crowd.

Rudy already sucks with the gun crowd.

McCain keeps quiet on it and as an ex- POW, has street cred with them.


I'm not too happy with the slew of republicans running.  however, Huckabee (although he made no money) is perhaps the most sensible of the bunch.  Ron Paul is great, but will alienate too many people.  Fred Thompson, always intriguing, would be fun to watch in debates.

[Victor VonDoom]

BOSTON - 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.

    Last year's trip was an outing with major donors to the Republican Governors Association, which Romney headed at the time.

    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.

LOL This is the same guy who joined the NRA just last year and now claims to be a "strong" supporter of the second amendment.

Doom disapproves of his transparent pandering.