Presidential contender Mike Huckabee bagged a pheasant Wednesday, offering Iowa voters the image of an experienced outdoorsman on the hunt, shotgun blasting and dogs braying.
“See that’s what happens if you get in my way,” Huckabee said. Very clever and original stuff. Why do so many voters require that a politician has to shoot harmless animals before they will even consider voting for that candidate for President?
I guess it’s one way to distinguish himself from that sissy Ron Paul who had the courage to admit that he has fired a gun only twice and has never shot an animal (he being a U.S. Congressman from the Macho Fundamentalist Christian Republic of Texas, no less. May I add that my ancestors were among the Anglo invaders of Tejas in 1832, four years before the Battle of the Alamo was fought).
Personally, I don’t think hunting animals for food is any more morally reprehensible than eating chicken McNuggets.
I oppose hunting purely for sport, but it’s always amused me how so people who eat dead animals vehemently oppose animal hunting in any form.
I should restate one thing: I DO think it’s morally reprehensible to support the greedy amoral McDonald’s Corporation by eating at their restaurants, compared to hunting for your own meat.
There is a big difference between hunting animals to survive and hunting them for fun.