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Yee Haw!!!
When was the last time
Elmer FuddWillard went squirrel hunting?Those damn squirrels sure put up a good fight! lol
I own a gun we keep it up yonder at my "cabin" the boys like to use it...
Why be honest? The guy isn't interested in fire arms. What like the NRA isn't going to back the GOP? Come on. Typical say and do anything to get elected.
Darth Vader would be happy to take Romney on his first quail hunting outing. We can only hope it can be arranged.
The NRA should have no complaints for the president. The only law passed during Obama's administration says you are allowed to carry firearms in national parks, though why you would need to is beyond me.
I saw the title and got a visual of Romney taking his car elevator down from the Master suite in the East Wing of his California mansion, decked out in a camouflage ensemble that is perfectly starched and boots with no wear. His chuafeur drives him to a private jet, where he flies to meet Rick Perry to go to N-word to hunt. Unfortunately Perry has taken too many pain pills and accidentally shoots Romney in the face, where upon Romney unzips himself and snaps his hair back on and is good as new.
[Obama's administration says you are allowed to carry firearms in national parks, though why you would need to is beyond me.]
Conservatives' fear of squirrels?
NPR quoted Romney as saying he has been a hunter most of his life and then played a clip in which he later backed down from that less-than-completely-honest assertion when he said that his hunting was restricted to rodents and rabbits.
Yessir, Etch-A-Sketch is quite the hunter, all righty. The NRA must love him as the GOP's reluctant choice as their #1 loser.
Mittens talks guns with the NRA and then heads out back to hunt "small varmints".
Mitt has to prove that he can fit in with all these disparate Republican constituencies when we all know he'd prefer to hang out with his friends who own sports teams. Wonder how many varmints he hunts at the California beach house?
Should be interesting. According to the AP:
Yeah, I thought we need a permanent ban on assault-type weapons back then too. The difference is that I'm not running for president, so I doubt the NRA would let me in the door. Unlike Romney, I haven't flip-flopped on that one.
Let's hope that's not his friend Dick Cheney.....
All kidding aside, though - this is just another example of where Romney is desperately trying to create a false distinction between him and President Obama. The same article also indicates that:
In other words, if you've got nothing good to say about yourself, make up something about the other guy that'll rile up the audience du jour.
And finally:
Details? Why should today be any different from any other day with Romney?
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PRESIDENTIAL_CAMPAIGN_NRA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-04-13-12-22-21
Big business at work. There's money to be made.
maybe Dick Cheney should take him hunting...
Cheney had a transplant and got the heart of a teenage girl. He's lost interest in hunting and refuses to pick up his room.
Amy owes me a keyboard, that was too funny.
No way that old goat deserved it ahead of so many on the list.
But I'm sure kirk or Rob will chime with something about the best match,like Cheney was the only one. Wait till the truth comes out after Cheney is dead.
Amy---but he now sends 100 texts per day and loves Justin Bieber!
Oh FrankH - lotsanumbers:
You wrote:
Darth is one of the UNDEAD.
Amy and Steeler Fan - too funny.
Amy and Steeler Fan:
I heard that Dick demanded that Liz take him to the Laramie Theater so he could audition for the lead role in the stage production of "Mean Girls".
[Cheney had a transplant and got the heart of a teenage girl. He's lost interest in hunting and refuses to pick up his room.]
He suddenly filled his room with posters of The Partridge Family and The Monkees, and only wants to hang out at the mall.
Some years ago, a number of us used to gather at a microbrewery to test their wares. We were very good at testing. Anyway, most of us were of a liberal stripe and most of us were veterans, and being long of tooth, a number of us had served in Viet Nam. A number of us had seen bodies ripped apart by gunfire. I'd even seen them while I was in another line of work, right here. Stateside. Kids.
Well, you know how liberals are. They hate guns. They don't want anyone to have firearms, and all that kind of stuff. So, I asked how many of my fellow gutless, gun-hating, Constitution-despising, lefty librul types owned at least one firearm. Damn! Every one of us owned at least one. To make things even crazier, only one of us hadn't qualified as a marksman. (The ranking rates from branch to branch, but all but one had gotten the top ranking available.)
Now, maybe the fact that we don't miss our targets is the reason we don't think you need to have 30-round magazines. Maybe we've been around enough tough-talking chicken hawks who shoot their "friends" in the face. Maybe we think NOT kissing the collective ass of the NRA and their lying mouthpiece Wayne LaPierre doesn't mean you don't love America. Maybe we aren't too worried that our next President doesn't own a freaking arsenal.
Vote G.O.P. - Suicide by Republican.
[Now, maybe the fact that we don't miss our targets is the reason we don't think you need to have 30-round magazines.]
David, great post. The gun club I belong to boasts a 100% NRA membership...I keep telling them they need to change that to 99%. I REFUSE to join.
It always amazed me how most of the yahoos at the club can't hit a full sized target at 25 yards...the same ones with NRA stickers, 30 round magazines (grandfathered in before the NY State law banning them took hold), and gadsden flags plastered all over their pick-up trucks.
David
Great post. This needs to be printed in every local paper. Blow up the myth (so to speak) of the limp wristed liberal.
My brother is a gun-loving red stater and even he recently told my nephew not to buy a handgun because "it's too easy to do something stupid with it." I think Zimmerman can attest to that.
David Walker -- Excellent. Stephen Colbert just did a similar satire on a gun locker kept under the bed, and how it's a good thing it held LOTS of weaponry in case he misses.
Patriot act, NDAA, HR347, HR569. Coming after our guns is the next logical step in our governments pursuit of a police state. First it will be semi automatic, then hand guns, then rifles. BTW every time this has happened in history, the law abiding citizens turned in the banned guns and the criminals kept them.
96ws6,
EVERY time this happened in history? Please enlighten us about how many times this has happened...
Liberals and Progressives need their own versions of CPAC and NRA conventions in order to balance out the excessive and obsessive coverage of these two groups.
David Walker
Great post!
There are Americans that have common sense.
Keep writing.
father's day a few years ago my husband wanted a new gun. So I got him a brand new super soaker water gun. i also got him body armour ( a poncho ) and extra clip ( a gallon of water. He was not amused.
More proof that Mittenzie will say anything to get a vote from a varmit! I hope someone takes him hunting, and forgets to bring him back. Wouldn't hurt my feelings none! to use the words of his buddy; "What a SNOB"!!!!!
Here's a deal for you all (or compromise as you like to call it).....I'll pay for your contraception when you pay for my ammunition.
Mukwa:
That's the whole problem. I'll be happy to pay to see to it that you're shooting blanks. We won't even have to worry about contraception then, will we?
LOL.
@ Mukwa: boy did you ever step into it that time. nice comeback David.
We've got 8 times the homicide rate of Britain and 50 times the rate in Japan. In fact, we've got the highest homicide rate in the developed world. Guns are a big part of the problem (the other parts of the equation being preferences for vengeance, vigilantes, and standing our ground, tit for tat, etc.). Certainly, shotguns and rifles are all you need to protect one's home. Why do we need handguns at all? Handguns are for mobility in killing people. Handguns are for armed robberies. Handguns are for gang killings. Don't get me started on assault weapons. The gun manufacturers are merchants of death. But they sure have convinced much of America that a certain portion of the collective American anatomy is too small. Everybody covets the big guns that can shoot lots of bullets.