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shhh! I'm hunting wabbits... or am I?
Four States Report Romney Never Got Hunting Licenses
By Glen Johnson Associated Press Sunday, April 8, 2007; A05 Officials in the four states where Mitt Romney has lived say the Republican presidential contender, who calls himself a lifelong hunter, never took out a license. Romney says that is because he seldom has hunted where he needed one. Questions about his hunting activities trailed Romney last week after he remarked at a campaign stop that he has been a hunter nearly all his life. The next day, his campaign said Romney had gone hunting just twice -- once as a teenager in Idaho and last year with GOP donors in Georgia. That was wrong, Romney said a day later. He said he had hunted rabbits and other small animals for many years, mainly in Utah. Hunting certain small game there does not require a license. "The report that I only hunted twice is incorrect," Romney said in a statement issued Friday. "I've hunted small game numerous times, as a young man and as an adult. I'm by no means a big-game hunter. I'm more Jed Clampett than Teddy Roosevelt," he said, referring to the "Beverly Hillbillies" character. Romney has been criticized for changing positions on issues such as abortion and gay rights during his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Although he once supported strict gun-control measures, he has spoken in favor of gun-ownership rights while on the campaign trail and joined the National Rifle Association as a "lifetime" member last year. His staff refused Friday to provide details about his hunting history. He does not own a firearm, though he said earlier this year that he does. The former Massachusetts governor issued the statement Friday after the Associated Press asked wildlife officials in Michigan, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Utah for documentation verifying Romney had been a registered hunter.
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09 Apr 2007, 08:55 PM
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This and his stance on abortion and gay rights.
Romney: the ultimate flip flopper.
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09 Apr 2007, 09:08 PM
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No..Kerry (also from Mass) was the ultimate flip-flopper
Romney is a close 2nd...... 
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09 Apr 2007, 09:38 PM
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you know it's election season when whether or not someone has been an active hunter is deemed newsworthy.
truth is i could care less how often if ever he hunted. what's lost in that story is his flipping on the issue of gun control. a far bigger issue to his "conservative" base i would think then whether he hunted rabbits in utah or not. it's as pertinent to his ability to perform the duties of the executive (or lack thereof) as obama's wardrobe is. you can't tell me that the opposition (who we all know leaks these stories) can't do better than this. shoot given the elitism of the evangelical right-winged base i would think simply exploiting the fact he's a mormon will be sufficient to make him a non-factor. hunting (and even his past position on gun control, abortion, and equal rights) won't be near as damning to his chances for winning the nomination of his party as his religious beliefs will be.
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09 Apr 2007, 10:26 PM
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John McCain has turned out to be the biggest flip flopping lying SOB out there, by far. Heck, he even admits that he lies (he calls it "misspeaks"), and says it's fun to do.
Video: John McCain vs. John McCain Fox News Video: McCain flip flops on abortion McCain Discusses Iraq Market Visit . . . The week before, trying to build support for the surge, he said this on television: "General Petraeus goes out there almost every day in an unarmed Humvee." And he said this on the radio: "There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today."  Those words came back to haunt him in a Baghdad news conference. And he made it worse. "Senator McCain, I just read in the Internet that you said there are areas in Baghdad that you can walk around freely," a reporter asked. "Yeah, I just came from one," McCain replied. But backing up that stroll through the market were ten armored Humvees, soldiers with rifles, and two Apache attack helicopters circling overhead. . . . "There is no unarmored Humvee, obviously that’s the case," McCain says. "I’m trying to make the point over and over and over again that we are making progress. There are signs of progress. But it’s long and it’s hard and it’s tough." . . . "Of course I'm going to misspeak and I've done it on numerous occasions and I probably will do in the future. I regret that when I divert attention to something that I've said from my message but you know that's just life, and I'm happy frankly with the way I operate, otherwise it would be a lot less fun," McCain says.
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09 Apr 2007, 10:33 PM
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Edit:- And led beat me about the Mccain point.
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09 Apr 2007, 11:41 PM
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Question: Is any President/Vice President ever safe in the States without the CIA's help? Just wondering.
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10 Apr 2007, 01:08 AM
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I wonder if any of us could pass the scrutiny that all the candidates go thru. I sometimes wonder if the candidates don't do things that the media will focus on just so they don't go back and find even dumber stuff from their past.
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11 Apr 2007, 04:01 PM
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11 Apr 2007, 05:44 PM
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