John Kerry Deer Hunter

[Gordon B]

Mark Steyn is a funny guy.

Originally Posted by Mark Steyn

There’s a bumper sticker I see on a lot of Vermont cars these days: “BE PATRIOTIC – VOTE GEORGE BUSH OUT”. The trouble is you can’t vote Bush out, you have to vote the other fellow in. And convention week marks the point when Americans begin to get to know the challenger the way they know the incumbent. I find it hard to believe that getting to know John F Kerry can possibly work to his advantage.

He was in Wisconsin the other day, pretending to be a regular guy, and was asked what kind of hunting he preferred. “I’d have to say deer,” said the senator. “I go out with my trusty 12-gauge double-barrel, crawl around on my stomach… That’s hunting.”

This caused huge hilarity among my New Hampshire neighbours. None of us has ever heard of anybody deer hunting by crawling around on his stomach, even in Massachusetts. The trick is to blend in with the woods and, given that John Kerry already looks like a forlorn tree in late fall, it’s hard to see why he’d give up his natural advantage in order to hunt horizontally.

Possibly his weird Vietnam nostalgia is getting out of control. Still, if I come across a guy in the woods in deer season inching through the undergrowth with a mouthful of bear scat, at least I’ll know who it is.

Conversely, if you’re a 14-point buck and get shot in the toe this autumn, you’ll know who to sue.

Crawling around on your stomach is a lousy way to hunt deer, but it’s proved a smart way to campaign for president. For months now, George W Bush has been up there getting fired on from all directions. Meanwhile, down in the scrub, John Kerry was crawling forward on his stomach, a stealth candidate advancing slowly, off the radar, prone alone.
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[Monte Smith]

JFK as VC. I like it.

[Captain Hate]

I thought this might be about Kerry was ready to do Russian Roulette contests back in 'Nam before he married really big money!!!

[jesus marion joseph]

You guys are sick.




Just sick.




Sick.

Sick, yes, JMJ, but also worried that November might mark the end of the nightmare they so enjoy. Notice how they attempt to be humorous--I sense nervous titter.

[drumultima]

Elections like this one make me feel glad I'm not old enough to vote yet

[patricia]

Originally Posted by drumultima

Elections like this one make me feel glad I'm not old enough to vote yet

Oh drumultima, my little love. It gets worse, believe me.

[jesus marion joseph]

Originally Posted by Chris A

Sick, yes, JMJ, but also worried that November might mark the end of the nightmare they so enjoy. Notice how they attempt to be humorous--I sense nervous titter.

I was being facetious. I found the article humorous. And it has nothing to do with my hopes for the election in November.

[tippy]

Not being old enough to vote is kind of like being an alternate juror. I'm an alternate juror on a criminal case, my first time experience. I expect to get dismissed tomorrow but I was thinking how I was both glad that I don't have to decide someone's fate but also kind of irritated about being an extra, just a pretty face on the panel.

Deer hunting is cool. In Utah it's worth a day or two off school every year. The thought of deer with shot off toes is heartbreaking though.

[patricia]

Originally Posted by tippy

Deer hunting is cool. In Utah it's worth a day or two off school every year. The thought of deer with shot off toes is heartbreaking though.

Do deer have toes?? I thought they had hoofs. Shows what I know

[tippy]

Wow--I don't even know the answer to that question. Maybe some have toes and some don't.

[patricia]

Originally Posted by tippy

Wow--I don't even know the answer to that question. Maybe some have toes and some don't.

I don't even know where to start to look. There aren't deer or moose, believe it or not, wandering around the city, even though I do live in Canada.

[tippy]

We are in need of a special fetish magazine...maybe jazzoline will know?

[Root Doctor]

I've seen plenty of anti-Bush bumper stickers on VT cars, but not the one Steyn mentions. I got a kick out of one I saw on RT 128 in MA last week: "Like Father, Like Son. One Term."

As for deer hunting, the preferred method in NH is using a spotlight at night from the comfort of your pick-up. You don't want to be too far from that cooler of Coors Lite.

[bluenoter]

Originally Posted by Root Doctor

As for deer hunting, the preferred method in NH is using a spotlight at night from the comfort of your pick-up. You don't want to be too far from that cooler of Coors Lite.

Isn't spotlighting deer from a vehicle illegal in NH and most (all?) other states?

[patricia]

Originally Posted by bluenoter

Isn't spotlighting deer from a vehicle illegal in NH and most (all?) other states?

I'm pretty sure he was having us on.
However, I did see something else happen, in central British Columbia, some years ago. I saw three of them in a truck shoot a deer from inside their truck. The "hunters" then leaped out of their truck, partially butchered the deer, throwing parts of it into their truck and drove off. I was wandering along the highway, near a lake where my family had a summer cottage.
And, yes, that is illegal too.

[claude]

“I go out with my trusty 12-gauge double-barrel, crawl around on my stomach… That’s hunting.”

Why would someone hunt deer with a shotgun?

[claude]

Speaking of weird hunting stories, a few years ago an employee of one of my clients was shot while driving down a woods road. A visiting American hunter mistook his truck for a moose (or bear, I can't quite remember) and fired away. Poor guy was hit in the head and while he survived has never quite been the same and was never able to return to work.

[Al in NYC]

Why do politicians do stuff like this? Why do they so often embarrass themselves by trying to be some sort of "regular guy" when it's so clear they are not? Why not just say that you don't hunt and leave it at that (after all, plenty of "regular guys" don't)?

Shades of George Bush the 1st buying socks...

[clinthopson]

Good grief, the bullshit gets deeper all the time.

Kerry should have enough intelligence to tell his handlers not to put him in those embarassing situations, like the bunny suit at NASA.

He's not going to connect with those so-called "sportsmen" who blaze away at Bambi with high powered rifles in any circumstance.

[patricia]

Originally Posted by clinthopson

Good grief, the bullshit gets deeper all the time.

Kerry should have enough intelligence to tell his handlers not to put him in those embarassing situations, like the bunny suit at NASA.

He's not going to connect with those so-called "sportsmen" who blaze away at Bambi with high powered rifles in any circumstance.

I'm amused by the carefully staged photo-ops of George Bush with regular people. Have you ever seen so many African-Americans, Asian-Americans and other assorted ethnic examples in such a small space?? They just happened to be there......................right?? Yes, pictures do lie. Pictures also embarrass and mis-represent. I wonder if the pictures on the aircraft carrier, of Dubya's flight suit, oddly festooned with strategically cinched, leather straps, highlighting..............what? ....... causes him any embarrassment.

However, how much attention would have been paid to the atrocities being committed at Abu Ghraib, without the pictures. There were other examples of the same thing going on in other locations, but, in our Sesame Street Society, without pictures, they don't exist.
I think that needing pictures, rather than text, says more about the short attention span of the average person than it does about the important events unfolding.

Where's that picture of George W falling off the Segway?? Where is the footage of George W. twiddling his thumbs, while the Pope spoke??
We've seen the footage of George W. warning terrorists not to mess with the U.S., taken on a golf course, on one of his many vacations. See "Fahrenheit 9/11 for the "watch this drive" part, which was what George W. said, immediately after that tough talk.

[Captain Hate]

Originally Posted by claude

“I go out with my trusty 12-gauge double-barrel, crawl around on my stomach… That’s hunting.”

Why would someone hunt deer with a shotgun?

I've always thought it's stupid; they don't use regular shotgun shells but rather a rifled slug.