More silliness over Romney's hunting claims. Mike Huckabee (ever associated in my brain with the lovely Lily Tomlin/Dustin Hoffman film, "I [Heart] Huckabee's") announces with immense smugness that Romney has made a major mistake.
Evidently, claiming that you regularly go out and kill animals counts for campaign rhetoric on the Republican trail. If you're going to package and market yourself as the Bungalow Bill of the Republican party, you'd better be able to back it up.
I think it was a mistake as well. For one thing it's totally unnecessary. Is this another person misled by the belief that certain members of the Republican base voted for W because they felt he was a good ol' boy like them?
Nonsense; those people would have voted Republican if the Democratic candidate had been Jesus (perhaps especially then). Besides, good ol' boy-hood ain't something you can earn just by joining the NRA or becoming governor of Texas or pretending your dad wasn't a rich, effete easterner and you didn't go to Yale. As we learned, you can't even earn it by taking your rich eastern ass to Vietnam while other people sit out the war.
It's not something you can become; it's something you either are or are not. I remember how people used to laugh at Bush v.1, a/k/a "Poppy," with his bonefishing and his pork rinds. And Kerry's pre-election goose-slaughter didn't accomplish a thing except to piss off those in his own base who don't approve of hunting and to make him look (more) ridiculous to his detractors. You either are a good ol' boy or you are not. Bush v.1 and John Kerry are not. Neither is Mitt Romney. Bush v.2 is. He just is. Either he was born that way or he somehow morphed to fit the role. It's not something you can fake.
But the good ol' boys themselves don't care whether the president is one of them because they don't trust the federal government anyway. They vote Republican because they do; that's all. Just mumble stuff about state's rights and the right to bear arms and the 10th amendment and big government, and you're there.
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