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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 09:49 AM

Hunters, Politicians, and Democracy

This article (sorry if I'm hurting copyright, maybe it will help circulation)

called "Hunting Democracy" from the Autumn 2005 issue of Montana: The Magazine of

Western History, casts some interesting light on hunting and its overtones in

American politics, and on the Veep and his "canned hunting" in particular. Those

from the left need to learn now to drive the wedge between the country-club Republicans and the "rugged individualist" Republicans (or more properly, the associated Independents).

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 09:51 AM

Whoops, forgot the cite

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3951/is_200510/ai_n15643342

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