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LAWSON FILE: AN ORANGE CAP DOESN'T MAKE YOU "ONE OF US"
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What is it with these guys. Every four years Presidential candidates
head out into the fields, shotgun in hand, to show their "regular
folk" and every four years they demonstrate instead their oafs. You'd
think they'd get you can't pretend to be an everyday American once in
a while when, well, you're just not.
In recent weeks we've had to listen to preppie Mitt Romney describe
himself as a life long hunter only to discover he may or may not have
shot at some mice sometime in his life. My money is on not only has
he
not even shot at "varmints" but it's unlikely he's ever even seen
any.
And now comes along that Baptist Preacher Mike Huckabee in his orange
coat upstaging the Mitt (which isn't hard) and showing he's just a
good ole boy from Arkansas. Except this good ole boy missed some
lessons from his dad or something and took the route of another well
know regular guy and almost shot his hunting party (which in this
case
was the press).
Some guy named Dave commented, "I wasn't planning on voting for or
supporting Huckabee. But after reading about him shooting at
reporters, I might have to reconsider."
Now if Mike told us he meant to shoot at the press, I might buy it,
but he didn't and I'm not buying it.
And then old Blair Gamer (you don't know him and neither do I but it
doesn't matter) comments on the affair thusly, "I've hunted pheasants
for 20 years, and if they kicked up a pheasant and it flew toward the
reporters, and the reporters were 75 yards away, the pheasant would
have been flying at such a low angle to the hunters by that time,
probably in its landing glide, that the shot would almost surely have
hit the reporters."
What to believe?
The bigger question remains, why do these guys spend so much time
proving they hunt? What does being able to shoot a pheasant have to
do
with the Iraq war, taxes, recessions, the housing crisis, poverty,
hunger, racism or anything else a President might have to worry
about.
Maybe you think it's all about gun rights. I ain't buying that
either.
You can just tell us what you think without taking that always
special
middle of the campaign hunting trip.
No, methinks they want us to believe they're one of us and that
they're real men (except Hillary, of course, who wants us to think
she's either a super women or an everyday folksy girl...whatever).
What they can't seem to get, because they're not one of us, is that
we
are smart enough to know they're not.
Shouldn't we all be insulted that the people who strive to run the
country think we're so stupid that all they have to do is put on an
orange cap and us yokel's will think they're with us?
But then George Bush was elected twice, so what do I know.
The following is from the Say Anything blog.
"Life Long Hunter" Mike Huckabee Needs To Learn Muzzle Control
By Rob
He almost shot some journalists (is that really a bad thing? ok,
sorry
that was mean...):
From the blog The Swamp:
"Republican Mike Huckabee took his presidential campaign for a quick
pheasant-hunting expedition in Iowa on Wednesday, and at one point, a
reporter asked why he hadn't invited sporting enthusiast Dick Cheney
along. "Because I want to survive all the way through this," Huckabee
replied, in a chuckling dig at the vice president's accidental
shooting of a quail-hunting partner last year."
Any good sportsman, though, couldn't miss a distinctly Cheneyesque
moment in the press accounts of the former Arkansas governor's
morning
hunt: At one point, Huckabee's party turned toward a cluster of
reporters and cameramen and, when they kicked up a pheasant, fired
shotgun blasts over the group's heads."
This, friends, is dangerously bad hunting form."
Your Swamp correspondent, the son of a longtime hunter education
instructor, grew up plying the corn rows and stream banks of rural
Oregon with a Labrador retriever and a Mossberg 20-gauge pump
shotgun.
On our hunts for pheasant, grouse and quail, merely swinging a gun
barrel in the general direction of another person was grounds for
day-
long banishment to the truck."
I didn't grow up hunting for birds in the midwest but rather hunting
with my father for moose and caribou in my childhood home of Alaska,
but my family's rules were the same way. If you can't control your
weapon you don't get to carry one. Gun safety on the hunt is always
priority #1.
"Life long hunter" Mike Huckabee apparently didn't learn this, which
makes you wonder if he is simply the latest politician to don hunting
clothes in Iowa for no other reason than a vain attempt to impress
the
rural voters there.
Oread Daily http://oreaddaily.blogspot.com/
What is it with these guys. Every four years Presidential candidates
head out into the fields, shotgun in hand, to show their "regular
folk" and every four years they demonstrate instead their oafs. You'd
think they'd get you can't pretend to be an everyday American once in
a while when, well, you're just not.
In recent weeks we've had to listen to preppie Mitt Romney describe
himself as a life long hunter only to discover he may or may not have
shot at some mice sometime in his life. My money is on not only has
he
not even shot at "varmints" but it's unlikely he's ever even seen
any.
And now comes along that Baptist Preacher Mike Huckabee in his orange
coat upstaging the Mitt (which isn't hard) and showing he's just a
good ole boy from Arkansas. Except this good ole boy missed some
lessons from his dad or something and took the route of another well
know regular guy and almost shot his hunting party (which in this
case
was the press).
Some guy named Dave commented, "I wasn't planning on voting for or
supporting Huckabee. But after reading about him shooting at
reporters, I might have to reconsider."
Now if Mike told us he meant to shoot at the press, I might buy it,
but he didn't and I'm not buying it.
And then old Blair Gamer (you don't know him and neither do I but it
doesn't matter) comments on the affair thusly, "I've hunted pheasants
for 20 years, and if they kicked up a pheasant and it flew toward the
reporters, and the reporters were 75 yards away, the pheasant would
have been flying at such a low angle to the hunters by that time,
probably in its landing glide, that the shot would almost surely have
hit the reporters."
What to believe?
The bigger question remains, why do these guys spend so much time
proving they hunt? What does being able to shoot a pheasant have to
do
with the Iraq war, taxes, recessions, the housing crisis, poverty,
hunger, racism or anything else a President might have to worry
about.
Maybe you think it's all about gun rights. I ain't buying that
either.
You can just tell us what you think without taking that always
special
middle of the campaign hunting trip.
No, methinks they want us to believe they're one of us and that
they're real men (except Hillary, of course, who wants us to think
she's either a super women or an everyday folksy girl...whatever).
What they can't seem to get, because they're not one of us, is that
we
are smart enough to know they're not.
Shouldn't we all be insulted that the people who strive to run the
country think we're so stupid that all they have to do is put on an
orange cap and us yokel's will think they're with us?
But then George Bush was elected twice, so what do I know.
The following is from the Say Anything blog.
"Life Long Hunter" Mike Huckabee Needs To Learn Muzzle Control
By Rob
He almost shot some journalists (is that really a bad thing? ok,
sorry
that was mean...):
From the blog The Swamp:
"Republican Mike Huckabee took his presidential campaign for a quick
pheasant-hunting expedition in Iowa on Wednesday, and at one point, a
reporter asked why he hadn't invited sporting enthusiast Dick Cheney
along. "Because I want to survive all the way through this," Huckabee
replied, in a chuckling dig at the vice president's accidental
shooting of a quail-hunting partner last year."
Any good sportsman, though, couldn't miss a distinctly Cheneyesque
moment in the press accounts of the former Arkansas governor's
morning
hunt: At one point, Huckabee's party turned toward a cluster of
reporters and cameramen and, when they kicked up a pheasant, fired
shotgun blasts over the group's heads."
This, friends, is dangerously bad hunting form."
Your Swamp correspondent, the son of a longtime hunter education
instructor, grew up plying the corn rows and stream banks of rural
Oregon with a Labrador retriever and a Mossberg 20-gauge pump
shotgun.
On our hunts for pheasant, grouse and quail, merely swinging a gun
barrel in the general direction of another person was grounds for
day-
long banishment to the truck."
I didn't grow up hunting for birds in the midwest but rather hunting
with my father for moose and caribou in my childhood home of Alaska,
but my family's rules were the same way. If you can't control your
weapon you don't get to carry one. Gun safety on the hunt is always
priority #1.
"Life long hunter" Mike Huckabee apparently didn't learn this, which
makes you wonder if he is simply the latest politician to don hunting
clothes in Iowa for no other reason than a vain attempt to impress
the
rural voters there.
