A Tale of Two Candidates

by dday

Four years apart, two Presidential candidates have gone hunting days before a major election. One looked obviously inauthentic as he pandered for votes in a crude stereotype of the heartland voters he secretly hates. The other was a proud symbol of our shared American heritage, boldly shrugging off the criticism of Eastern elites to just be himself.

Can you guess who is who?

(Reuters)

Still can’t figure it out?

I’ll give you a hint. The authentic one is the one with the tiny “R” under the earflap.

I eagerly await the mocking Sportsmen for Huckabee website, but I probably won’t see it. After all, what could possibly be deserving of mockery? It’s not like he made a big show out of hunting just for the benefit of the cameras.

(Reuters)

UPDATE: By the way, Huckabee is hilarious:

Of four birds flushed by the party, three were felled. Huckabee claimed the third with his .12-gauge shotgun. He proudly displayed the birds and said jokingly, “See that’s what happens if you get in my way.” […]

“It’s an opportunity to experience Iowa at its best,” he said. “Hopefully we’ll just shoot pheasants and not each other. We’ll name the pheasant for the other candidates. It gives us a real incentive.”

This I guess is a step up from typical Republican jokes, which are typically about hunting and killing liberals instead of Republican primary opponents.

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