I find myself pondering the meaning of the Mitt Romney Gun controversy.\u00c2\u00a0 In case you missed it, Mitt Romney pandered before some voters in New Hampshire and… well…<\/p>\n
This week in Keene, N.H., Romney told a man in an NRA hat that he had “been a hunter pretty much all of my life,” the Associated Press reported. The Romney campaign later acknowledged that Romney, 60, hunted one summer as a teenager and once in his late 50s. Earlier this year, Romney said, “I have a gun of my own.” It turned out his son owns guns, not Romney. After boasting about his membership in the National Rifle Association, Romney later admitted he joined the group less than a year ago.<\/i><\/p>\n
To the degree that one can hate a politician with no discernable influence on one’s life, I hate this guy.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The number of times that the phrase\u00c2\u00a0“flip flopper” was tossed at John Kerry needs to be amplified to the nth degree and tossed at Mitt Romney.\u00c2\u00a0 He is the Republican front-runner in terms of funds raised, though the constant Flipper costumes that heckled him\u00c2\u00a0at the ConservativePAC Convention exemplifies the troubles that that advantage is going to have to overcome for the Republican primary voter to get to the point where the general election\u00c2\u00a0voter will be forced to stare at… perhaps some other man running around trailing him in a Dolphin costume.\u00c2\u00a0 (Reminscent of the Chicken-costume that heckled George Herbert Walker Bush in 1992.)<\/p>\n
I had always assumed that Mitt Romney had served two terms as governor of Massachusetts.\u00c2\u00a0 Looking\u00c2\u00a0at his record, though, I see that he had one term.\u00c2\u00a0 So, he moved in during the 2002 Republican tide, and at the end of\u00c2\u00a0his term\u00c2\u00a0the state turned back from its recent history of electing Republican governors and flipped to the Democratic candidate.\u00c2\u00a0 Understand, on his way out — with an eye for the Republican nomination, Romney started talking before Republican audiences on what a loony place he is governing.<\/p>\n
Such a lunative state that it believes in fairly stringent gun control laws, for instance.\u00c2\u00a0 A state not particularly impressed by its candidates’ NRA credentials.\u00c2\u00a0 Mind you, other states are and demand you bend to the line– Montana’s famed governor doubled over backward to assure the state that he loves and uses guns.\u00c2\u00a0 I think Massachusetts might elect an NRA – member as governor, but only if he (or she) doesn’t run around and use it as a central placard.\u00c2\u00a0 Hence, Mitt Romney’s gun faux pas.<\/p>\n
He should have picked a different state to run for governor to launch a Republican presidential bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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