Ron Regan brings up the drinking question on Hardball.

[carolinalady]

Tweety says SS must have just been instinctively protecting the Vice President when they would not let the police ask him any questions.

OK...............;)

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

1. Or maybe Tweety is instinctively protecting the Veep.

Ya think?

[carolinalady]

2. I wonder how his gout is today? That would be very telling and

may be why he is "disappeared" again. Whenever my Mom falls off the wagon, her gout gets so bad she can hardly walk, and the effect is almost immediate.

[BlueManDude]

12. Caught Tweety this afternnon around 3:30 (EST)

on MSNBC saying things like "cut the guy some slack" etc etc and I couldn't help but think of the stink he'd be making if Al Gore had done the same thing.

[liveoaktx]

20. VIDEO-edits of that

Took out Buchanan and most of Twit

[Wheezy]

28. you are so faithful

with your video clips. Just wanted to say thanks -- I see them and click on them almost every day.

[Armstead]

3. Ron is so great

"It's standard for police to question someone, including asking whether they'd been drinking."

[grateful581]

4. I think he was drunk

People wait 24 hours to report things like this because they are drunk at the time.

[carolinalady]

5. Even Pat Buchanan doesn't understand why he did not talk to

the Sherriff.

[Armstead]

6. He did it again

Ron brought it up a second time

[Poiuyt]

7. Maybe they have a radical Islamic for a sheriff there in Texas

What I want to know is why there was a three hour delay before they took the victim to the hospital.

[AnneD]

23. Cheney tours...

with his own medical entourage. I bet they did what they could and when thay saw it might require more....THEN they went for help. Ya think?

[LisaM]

8. Who would drink and hunt?

That seems very unsafe.

[carolinalady]

9. Yep, and it is VERY COMMON for hunters to drink then hunt.

My husband's whole family are bigtime deer hunters in PA so I know a lot of them!

[tsuki]

13. Down here, it is absolutely forbidden. Husband is in two hunting

camps. Get caught drinking, you're back to the camp. Second time, you're voted out. Period.

Most hunters down here drink, at the camp, after the day is done.

[carolinalady]

14. That's a good rule. Where is down here? n/t

[tsuki]

19. NWFL. Lots of goverment land, and the hunters will not tolerate

drinking in federal forests.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

25. You need some liquid courage to go up against those killer

quail. :scared: :scared: :scared:

[karlrschneider]

11. No, it's not safe but it's common. More than common, nearly universal.

Just the way it is...

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

15. Maybe in your circles, but when I used to hunt it was verbotten.

A major faux pas even here in Alabama.

After the guns were in the trucks around the fire.

[Inland]

17. It's like drunk driving.

Everybody knows not to do it, everybody tells everyone not to do it, nobody wants to be around it, yet some do it anyway and then the bad shit happens.

[havocmom]

37. Where I live, so much mixing of booze & gunpowder

that I don't walk the dog during hunting season. More ranchers saying no to hunters looking to hunt on their land due to drunken oafs destroying fencing, shooting cows, dogs, John Deere tractors and a couple 12 year old kids.

At the store, we see them getting their supplies: One loaf of bread, couple packages of lunch meat, some jerky, some 'beanies & weenies for the whole hunting party and one 18 pack of bud per man per day. It is scary!

Big county area wise, small population, only 3 law enforcement officers for the whole county and sometimes one of them has to catch some sleep. Most hunters who come here are drunken louts. I would love to film them and send it to their neighbors.

Last fall, not far from here, three hunters waited till after the day's outing to get drunk in the one bar of a little town. They were totally blitzed and got in a wreck. Two were dead when the wreck was found, one was dying but lived long enough to tell rescuers there were 3 small kids waiting for them back at their base camp! THREE SMALL KIDS (about 6-8 years in age) left alone at a campsite where nobody else knew they were waiting for the dads that went out drinking!

Oh, hunting season is a joy. And all the problem hunters here are not the good ol boy locals. Like Cheney, they seem to be away from the daily routine, the usual supervision and roles, and behaving VERY badly.

Instead of dressing out an animal and getting it quickly to a meat processor, many like to leave them on the truck or hanging at the motel while they drink for a day or two. Drives the local dogs crazy as there are deer and antelope bodies hanging and gathering flies. Makes the local game warden pretty unhappy to see spoiled meat (illegal to let that happen) Pisses off the guy who hauls the trash once a week when there are 6-12 spoiled carcasses in the dumpster at the motel. Not especially safe for his workers to deal with.

But the bars do a great business during hunting season.

[karlrschneider]

38. Interesting...all my hunting experience is in Georgia and Oklahoma.

(and a bit in Florida)...I guess things are different in AL

...

[Inland]

16. Not many, and those few would want to keep it quiet after a booboo.nt

[Lone_Star_Dem]

18. The stories that I've heard of drinking at hunting camp are terrifying

For some hunters it appears that hunting and drinking go hand in hand.

Yes, that means you have drunken people with loaded guns shooting at moving objects in the brush. Sadly, sometimes those objects turn out to be other hunters.

[DoBotherMe]

21. Alcoholics

In Al Franken's "Stuart Saves His Family," there's a bit with Stuart's dad accidentally shooting the brother on the hunting trip. After that incident, the alcoholic brother cleans up, the dad's reaction is to disown his family rather than quit drinking. D ; )

[pitohui]

22. trust me, drinkin and huntin is not unknown in texas EOM

,

[dogday]

10. They drink 120 proof buckshot whiskey

Apparently makes you hallucinate and think your friend's head looks like a quail.....So you shoot him....

[AnneD]

24. You need the alchol...

to sterilize the wound and deaden the pain :evilgrin:

[Twist_U_Up]

26. Didnt the Texan that fired shots at Camp Casey mention Booze ?

[LynnTheDem]

27. "instinctively"...ROTFLMAO!!!

Poor tweety, sucking bushCabal dick can't be pleasant. What a maroon.

[Klukie]

29. I wonder ...

Do you think the hospital checked whittingtons blood alcohol levels when they did bloodwork. I can't imagine these good ole boys drink alone.

[proud2BlibKansan]

30. And how about Tweety's brother?

Did you catch the very end of the show where he said he is running for office - as a REPUBLICAN!!

[carolinalady]

31. I caught it and I had three thoughts-

1. Tweety gave money to the Dems guess it is a split family.
2. For a younger brother, that guy looked like he has been rode hard and put away wet and
3. Isn't there a law about giving campaigners equal time on TV? He owes Casey some equal coverage.

[proud2BlibKansan]

33. Yes he did look aged

Good point on that equal time rule, but didn't I hear they got rid of that rule?

[carolinalady]

32. Duped itself-DELETE DELETE DELETE

Code Red.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

34. His dad Ronald Reagan had to deal with Poppy's drunken auto accident

In Kitty Kelly's book on Nancy Reagan, there's a story about how Ronald Reagan and Nancy were having dinner one night when the Secret Service arrived claiming that the Vice President George H. W. Bush had been involved in an auto accident and that drinking had been involved. Also, Poppy was in a car with a woman who was not his wife. Supposedly Ronnie, Nancy and the others at the dinner table had a good laugh at Poppy Bush's expense and Reagan then had to suppress the story from the news and also smooth things over with the Washington police department.

Maybe Ron Reagan knows that these types of drunken incidents are not uncommon among politicians, especially ones who feel they can't get caught.

[carolinalady]

35. Juicy! I did not know that. Maybe Shrub called Nancy for advice.

[Raster]

36. was tweety slobbering all over himself while exhalting about

darth crashcart's manliness?