We all remember Slick Willy’s ridiculous parcing that “it depends on what the definition of ‘is’ is.”
Well now the Republican John Kerry himself Mitt Romney is taking a page out of the Clinton playbook.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is taking a second shot at describing his hunting experience.
The former Massachusetts governor has called himself a lifelong hunter, yet his campaign acknowledged that he has been on just two hunting trips—one when he was 15 and the other just last year.Campaigning in Indianapolis on Thursday, Romney said he has hunted small game since his youth.
“I’m not a big-game hunter. I’ve made that very clear,” he said. “I’ve always been a rodent and rabbit hunter. Small varmints, if you will. I began when I was 15 or so and I have hunted those kinds of varmints since then. More than two times.”
In Keene, N.H., on Tuesday, Romney had said: “I purchased a gun when I was a young man. I’ve been a hunter pretty much all my life.” The next day, the campaign said Romney hunted rabbits in Idaho with cousins as a teenager and shot quail with GOP donors at a game preserve in Georgia in 2006.
Campaign spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said Wednesday that Romney wasn’t trying to mislead anyone, and he promoted Romney’s support of gun- ownership rights.
It’s not the fact that as governor Mitt supported gun control laws such as the Brady bill that is upsetting to me. It’s the fact that Mitt is intentionally decieving voters to gain the Republican nomination. As I have said before the only difference between Romney and Rudi is that at least Rudi is honest about what he believes.
If Romeny will prevaricate about something like this, he should not be trusted to be Commander and Chief and leader of the Free World where the stakes would be much more significant.
All the guy had to say was that even though he has never been an avid hunter that he had been a few times but that, as president, he would uphold the Constitution and 2nd Amendment. Period.
But the “I’ve been a hunter pretty much my entire life” reminds me of “where can I get me a huntin’ license?” Meant to intentionally convey something that just is not true.
He looks and even sounds presidential. But he has a real problem with staking out consistent positions and telling the truth.
Like I said… he’s a Republican John Kerry Flip Flopper and not what this country needs in the perilous times in which we live.