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Mike Huckabee appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation where he criticized Mitt Romney for claiming to be a lifelong hunter.

“I think it was a major mistake,” said Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor. “It would be like me saying I’ve been a lifelong golfer because I played putt-putt when I was 9 years old and I rode in a golf cart a couple of times.” –Huckabee Questions Romney on Hunting Claim, April 8, 2004

Certainly if Mitt Romney went hunting early in his life, as a teen. And then he went hunting during the years of his adulthood, most recently as a couple years ago. That would make him a “lifelong” hunter in my book.

Huckabee has a history of critiquing or evaluating the credentials of other hunters against his own as if no one else is qualified to be called a hunter as he is.

If there’s one thing on which I’ll defer to Gov. Mike Huckabee, it’s the killing of animals. Sheffield Nelson has called our lame-duck chief executive a “man’s man” because he’s so adept at hunting game. Ducks Unlimited just named Huckabee the sportsman of the year. You might have read that the governor recently went out west and assassinated an antelope from considerable distance. –Dog On a Leash?, October 16, 2006

Just last year, Mike Huckabee tried to call in to question the hunting credentials of Mike Beebe, Governor of Arkansas, saying that his hunting themed campaign ad appeared to be fake.

So I listened with respectful interest the other day as Huckabee told me that Mike Beebe’s television commercial with the camouflage and the waders and the water and the gun and the Labrador retriever was comically awry.

The dog was on a leash, Huckabee said. There’s no way a real hunter would trudge through the water or in or out of the woods with his dog tethered, or so our governor — master of the regal black Lab named Jet — propounded. –Dog On a Leash?, October 16, 2006

It turns out that the so called “leash” was not a leash but a stringer of ducks that Beebe was holding. He missed on that attempt. Desperate then, as he is now, he tried to question a reporter if that was really Beebe’s hunting dog.

Speaking of Mike Beebe’s hunting dog, maybe it’s that Mike Huckabee wanted to hunt it and kill it. Did he teach proper hunting to his son David Huckabee?

(Miller County, Arkansas) Two boy scout counselors, 17 year old Clayton Frady and 18 year old David Huckabee, the son of Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, have admitted to catching a stray dog during their summer session at Camp Pioneer in Hatfield, AR, and hanging the dog by his neck, slitting his throat and stoning him to death.

Camp officials, who did not report the crime to law enforcement officials, have admitted that the act did occur and have fired the boys from their positions. However, no charges have been filed against the young men.

Arkansas State Police conducted a perfunctory investigation, but did not attempt to locate witnesses to the crime.–Stop Animal Torture

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