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Boge Quinn
Oh, Deer: Steyn Shoots Down
Kerry's Hunting Tale
Doh! A deer!
Apparently hoping to outdo Hillary Clinton's improbable
attempt to reinvent herself as a duck hunter, John Kerry has tried
to avoid alienating supporters of gun rights by depicting himself as a
deer hunter. Mark Steyn will have none of it.
Steyn wrote in the London Telegraph yesterday:
"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.
Oh, Pooh
"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," Steyn noted.
Considering that these days Kerry looks more like a bunny
wabbit than Elmer Fudd, perhaps he could use a refresher course
from Gun Owners of America, which,
by the way, he still hasn't met with, despite his phony claim that he'd
meet with any critical group.
Update from a reader from Minnesota: "The fact that
John Kerry claims he crawls around on the ground while deer hunting is
less ridiculous than the fact that he claims to hunt deer with a double-barrel
12 guage. Ask any hunter. You hunt deer with either a rifle or a shotgun
slug (which you cannot do with a double-barrel shotgun). To a true deer
hunter, Kerry's claim is even more ludicrous than Howard Dean stating
that the book of Job is in the New Testament and then claiming he is a
devout Christian. Kerry's statement clearly shows he has absolutely no
clue about hunting."
Ed. Note: Kerry's statement also demonstrates that
he has no clue as to the meaning of the Second Amendment - it has nothing
to do with hunting.
Boge Quinn
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