Romney the Big Game HunterOnce again, Mitt does himself in by trying
to be what he's not:
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.
You know, Mitt, it's no shame that you've not hunted a lot; I think my last trip was after birds with a friend's BB gun around age 12. I am a good shot at the range, but you don't go hunting with a pistol and I certainly wouldn't go claiming to be any kind of hunter. Don't pretend to be a NASCAR fan or a golf nut if it isn't you. Show us what you really do. Even Kerry did that with his bicycling and that weird kite-surfing thing.
I hate to keep bagging on this guy, because I really do like him and find his resume incredibly compelling. But he doesn't seem to realize that you have to be honest with the people to get their vote.
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