When Huck Hunts, Make Sure You Duck
Posted by Andy on December 28th, 2007
Mike Huckabee is making John Kerry look like a pro-hunter… not to mention a person of class.
Republican Mike Huckabee took his presidential campaign for a quick pheasant-hunting expedition in Iowa on Wednesday, and at one point, a reporter asked why he hadn’t invited sporting enthusiast Dick Cheney along. “Because I want to survive all the way through this,” Huckabee replied, in a chuckling dig at the vice president’s accidental shooting of a quail-hunting partner last year.
What a classless punk. Seriously Mr. Huckabee, do you really have to pick up on every single left wing attack joke about Bush and Cheney? And people call me the worst Republican ever.
Any good sportsman, though, couldn’t miss a distinctly Cheneyesque moment in the press accounts of the former Arkansas governor’s morning hunt: At one point, Huckabee’s party turned toward a cluster of reporters and cameramen and, when they kicked up a pheasant, fired shotgun blasts over the group’s heads.
This, friends, is dangerously bad hunting form.
I think the Huckster is trying a bit too hard to prove himself. Either he is a terribly dangerous hunter, or he is desperate to win over the 2nd Amendment conservatives doing something that is completely unnatural to him. That is hunting and carrying a firearm.
Suffice to say, if any of our hunting mates had pulled a stunt like Huckabee’s yesterday, we never would have invited them back. It’s the sort of behavior that drives safety-conscious hunters up the wall, because it reinforces a reckless, gun-totin’ stereotype.
My colleague James Oliphant reports that Huckabee’s party was about 75 yards away from the press corps Wednesday when a pheasant jumped up and flew toward the reporters, drawing several shots. “That was too close,” he reports a cameraman saying.
And he was making jokes about Cheney only moments before.
Huckabee emerged happily from his hunt, three dead pheasants in tow, Oliphant reports. Asked for a metaphor to describe the hunt, he replied, “Don’t get in my way. This is what happens.“
Huckabee for President? No way in heck, and I don’t care if he threatens to shoot me. Over my dead body. 