Does this strike anyone else as, well, strange?
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said he bagged a goose on his swing-state hunting trip Thursday, but his real target was the voters who may harbor doubts about him.
Holy crap, run for the hills!
Kerry returned after a two-hour hunting trip wearing a camouflage jacket and carrying a 12-gauge shotgun, but someone else carried the bird he said he shot.
"I'm too lazy," Kerry joked. "I'm still giddy over the Red Sox. It was hard to focus."
Yeah, his favorite home town team of the century of the week.
The Massachusetts senator was referring to Boston's American League championship Wednesday night. He stayed up late cheering his hometown team onto victory, then got up for a 7 a.m. hunting trip at a supporter's produce farm.
Kerry adviser Mike McCurry said it's important in the final days of the campaign that voters "get a better sense of John Kerry, the guy."
That means the Democratic senator is spending some of the dwindling time before Election Day hunting, talking about his faith and watching his beloved Red Sox.
It's all part of an effort to win over swing voters who may be open to voting against President Bush but aren't sure they feel any connection with Kerry.
But not everyone is fooled!
The National Rifle Association said it bought a full-page ad in Thursday's Youngstown newspaper that says Kerry is posing as a sportsman while opposing gun-owners' rights. Kerry has denied NRA claims that he wants to "take away" guns, but he supported the ban on assault-type weapons and requiring background checks at gun shows
"If John Kerry thinks the Second Amendment is about photo ops, he's Daffy," says the ad the NRA said would run in The Vindicator. It features a large photo of Kerry with his finger on a shotgun trigger but looking in another direction.
A rather fitting summary for the gang that couldn't shoot straight. Or maybe Jeff Goldstein has been right all along, if you have to choose between rabbits and ducks, go with the bunnies.
"That means the Democratic senator is spending some of the dwindling time before Election Day [...] talking about his faith"
That should be a hoot. Not only doesn't Kerry understand what his own Catholic Church teaches, but he talks about it in a way that irritates other Christians as well.
NRO has an article today that illustrates this here: http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/hillyer200410210839.asp