Huckabee questions Romney hunting claim

[ck4829]

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney was wrong to suggest he was a lifelong hunter even though he never took out a license, campaign rival Mike Huckabee said Sunday.

"I think it was a major mistake," said Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor. "It would be like me saying I've been a lifelong golfer because I played putt-putt when I was 9 years old and I rode in a golf cart a couple of times."

"I think American people are looking for authenticity," Huckabee added. "Match their record with their rhetoric."

A message left Sunday with a spokesman for Romney was not immediately returned.

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[damntexdem]

1. Oh, I won't believe either of them until ...

one can show me that he has shot an attorney-friend in the face. ;-)

[Ian David]

2. Local news picked that up: Huckabee says Romney wrong to claim he was lifelong hunter

WASHINGTON -- GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney was wrong to suggest he was a lifelong hunter even though he never took out a license, campaign rival Mike Huckabee said Sunday.

"I think it was a major mistake," said Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor. "It would be like me saying I've been a lifelong golfer because I played putt-putt when I was 9 years old and I rode in a golf cart a couple of times."

"I think American people are looking for authenticity," Huckabee added. "Match their record with their rhetoric."

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On Sunday, Huckabee said Romney's comments undermined his credibility as a candidate.

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If Romney is a life-long hunter, then I am a life-long golfer.

I played putyt-putt golf at least three times.

Plus I was the manager of my high school J.V. Golf Team. That means I collected everyone's practice scores and entered them into VisiCalc, and then walked along the course each day with the coach while we went over the spreadsheets together.

[ThoughtCriminal]

3. Going for the Elmer Fudd base

:eyes:

[hlthe2b]

4. Ridiculous... simply ridiculous

I don't have problem with hunting (although I do believe in doing so fairly {i.e., no semi-automatics, swooping down out of low-flying planes over coyotes on the open plains, no night hunting with blinding spotlights, no release of over-fattened, slow-flying captive birds on game farms, etc.} and I believe in making use of the animal you kill.

THat having been said, all this bragging about how many and how big the animals you killed in your lifetime--as somehow a measure of your worth as President-- Good God... How frigging ridiculous.

[cyclezealot]

5. no repuke will ever get my vote.

But, I suspect Huckabee might be an honest Repuke with less than neocon credientals. He might help in keeping the repukes striaght.

[doc03]

6. I have never in my life heard small game hunting refereed to as

rodent hunting. A person may hunt rabbits, squirrel and birds. I have heard of people call groundhog or coyote hunting varmint hunting. But who the hell says they hunt small rodents, "What a Dick-head".