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Obama scores another faux gunnie
Obama scores another faux gunnie
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former Joyce Foundation board member Barack Obama has secured yet another faux Second Amendment supporter in "lifelong Republican" Tony Dean, a long-time host of hunting and fishing television shows in South Dakota. Dean told the Dallas News he's switching parties to head a Sportsmen for Obama group.
A "lifelong Republican" that is "switching parties to head a Sportsmen for Obama group"?
This is an interesting claim, given that Dean was mentioned by the Rapid City Journal in 2003 as a "possible Democratic candidate for Congress" who endorsed Democrat Senator Tim Johnson for reelection just a year earlier. Dean's efforts to deceive gun owners about Johnson may have been the difference in his narrow victory over Republican challenger, John Thune by just 524 votes (0.15%). According to public records, Dean donated money to another anti-gun South Dakota Democrat, Tom Daschle, also in 2003. Daschle lost his reelection bid to Thune in 2004. [This paragraph has been corrected to reflect Thune's election to the U.S. Senate in 2004. The original article mistakenly stated he was elected in 2002.]
For Tony Dean to have "switch[ed] parties to head a Sportsmen for Obama group" he would have to have done so at least two years before Obama was even elected to Senate, and five years prior to he announced his presidential bid. Indeed, it appears the word "lifelong" is as difficult for Dean and the Obama campaign to define as the word "is" is to Bill Clinton.
Dean is quoted by the Dallas News as saying he's "99 percent sure a President Obama isn't going to infringe on gun rights." But seeing as Mr. Dean, who at least one blogger has dubbed 'South Dakota's Al Gore' because of his fervent belief in human-caused global warming, describes himself as a "moderate on the gun issue" who "opposes the NRA on most gun issues," his assurances about Obama aren't likely to be much consolation to pro-gun voters.
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Gotta love it...
"We'll just bring in a Democrat, slap the words "lifelong Republican" on him, then tell everyone how Republicans are switching to our side... 
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