Category Archives: Guns


Lifetime hunter Mitt Romney never had license

April 7, 2007 – 10:03 am

Mitt Romney’s hunting problem continues.
Earlier this week, Mitt Romney said he had "been a hunter all his life." (see video here) But a reporter did some research, and Romney’s campaign admitted that Romney had only been hunting twice, once as a teenager and once for a fundraiser. Then Romney himself said that he was a […]

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Be vewy, vewy quiet…; Romney changes hunting story (again)

April 5, 2007 – 9:36 pm

Mitt Romney, changed his story on hunting … again. Here’s where he started:

Mitt Romney said he had hunted "pretty much all his life." Then the press asked his staff to confirm … and he had hunted only twice (and once at a fundraiser no less!).
Now Romney has clarified. He hunts "varmints":
Romney, a […]

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Fred Thompson, guns, and interest groups

April 5, 2007 – 6:45 am

Jim Geraghty has a great article over at NY Sun Politics about Fred Thompson. There is lots of talk about filling the conservative void, but I think that the more interesting discussion is about gun owners, the NRA, and interest groups:
One powerful organization that may breathe easier at news of a Thompson bid is the […]

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Romney on guns: More Mitt-representations

April 4, 2007 – 3:40 pm

Mitt Romney has a problem with gun owners, and it is that he is like John Kerry.
John Kerry referred to his "trusty shotgun", which was actually a weapon he had voted to ban. This was seen as fabricated, and it was rightly mocked in the righty blogs.
Mitt Romney has a similar problem, his image on […]

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New Hampshire is weird: The importance of guns

March 21, 2007 – 2:05 pm

In some ways, each state in the early process of the Presidential nominations captures something about the GOP electorate. I have noted that Iowa tends to emphasize religious conservatives. In New Hampshire, the "Live Free or Die" state, it is much more libertarian focusing on issues like guns and, to some extent, taxes. But the […]

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