Denver: Avid hunters may leave Bush camp

[Iceburg]

Bob Elderkin, Alan Lackey and Stan Rauch would appear to be sure bets for President Bush on Nov. 2: they're avid hunters, part of a 38 million-plus, conservative-leaning group that is strong on gun rights.

But the three, who voted for Bush in 2000, say he won't get their vote this time around because of his environmental policies.

"I can't vote for Bush knowing what it's going to be like the next four years," said Elderkin, a retired Bureau of Land Management employee in western Colorado, where natural-gas drilling is booming. "With (Democrat) John Kerry, it's an unknown. As far as Bush goes, it's going to be Katie-bar-the- door."

Lackey, of Raton, N.M., and Rauch, of Victor, Mont., are angry about the administration's proposal to allow logging and new roads on 58 million acres of national forest land that were declared off-limits by a Clinton-era rule, which is being challenged in court.

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[Cha]

1. AND don't forget ..Kerry is the

hunter..he's not going to take your guns away..

The nra(who does not have any credibility with me) wants assault weapons on the street..and they got 'em..so they endorse bush.

How many people is that pissing off?!

[MissouriTeacher]

2. I'm glad to see some hunters

smart enough to figure this out.

I have an uncle who hunts every spare minute of his life, and he HATES Bush largely because of his environmental policies. Yet he admits that most of his hunting buddies are big fans of him. :eyes:

My father-in-law is another one of the 'Sportsmen for Bush.'

[DenaliDemocrat]

3. My family lives a subsistance life style

We pretty much eat moose, halibut, caribou, and salmon. If I don't catch it or shoot it, we generally don't eat it. I have not bought meat except for some chicken every now and then for years. I know a LOT of hunters that just HATE BUSH for his meessed up environmental policies.

However, it seems like everything else, the REAL hunters (the ones who get in shape before a hunt, sleep in tents in the middle of nowhere with the bears and the wolves howling at night) support Kerry. The wannabes, the guys who pay $5000 to go shoot some poor deer that lives behind a fence or hunt over "corn feeders" and won't get off of their four whellers like they do in Texas support Bush.


Babe Winkelman just did an article on how Bush will probably do away iwth the CRP program, a MUST have for good pheasant habitat.