🚀 go-pugleaf

Get the word out - Kerry is a lousy liar when he claims to be "pro-gun"! 
He's pro-the-government-having them and wants to ban them for us peons!

http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20041022-090857-8206r.htm

When Johnny went a-huntin'

In Ohio this week, John Kerry tried to stage something for the press to 
show that he's not an anti-gun elitist who looks down his nose at the 
voting public. But the dog-and-pony show he put on in order to hunt geese 
in Ohio the other day largely served as another political opportunity for 
the Bush campaign and the National Rifle Association to remind gun owners 
that few senators have been as hostile to them as Mr. Kerry.

    Mr. Kerry's Ohio hunting adventure started last Saturday, when the 
senator, campaign entourage in tow, went into a grocery store and asked the 
owner: "Can I get me a hunting license here?" Even the phraseology sounded 
staged. Mr. Kerry ordinarily doesn't talk this way, and his language 
sounded fake and patronizing � as if he was pretending to talk like someone 
from rural Ohio.

    When Mr. Kerry went hunting on Thursday in Boardman, Ohio, the event 
was tightly choreographed. Even as Mr. Kerry allowed himself to be 
photographed wearing a camouflage jacket, he was "also careful not to scare 
off supporters who might be a little squeamish about seeing their candidate 
smeared with the fresh blood of a fowl whose only crime was to try landing 
in the wrong cornfield," Charles Hurt of The Washington Times reported.

    Mr. Kerry and his handlers wanted to come away with sanitized pictures 
they think will play well with focus groups. After two hours of hunting, 
photographers with long photo lenses noticed that Mr. Kerry's hand was 
bloodied. By the time he reached the reporters, he had tucked that hand 
into his sleeve. Unlike the other hunters, all of them carrying their 
geese, Mr. Kerry was careful not to be photographed holding the bird he 
shot. He's triangulating � trying to do whatever he can to to persuade 
hunters he's their buddy, without completely alienating animal-rights 
backers on the political left who might be inclined to support him.

    Given the likelihood that gun owners' understandable antipathy in 
states like Ohio probably cost Al Gore the 2000 election, the senator 
desperately wants to neutralize this politically potent voting bloc. In Mr. 
Kerry's view, these staged geese-hunting events (sans blood, of course) 
will convince those backward bumpkins in Ohio that he's OK. That's 
insulting and patronizing. After Mr. Kerry staged his hunting trip on 
Thursday, Youngstown Mayor George McKelvey, a Democrat who has endorsed 
President Bush, said that the president "doesn't have to get dressed up and 
try and fake a set of values or a connection to Ohio voters." Hopefully, 
voters in this critical swing state will see through Mr. Kerry's propaganda 
show. 


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