April 6, 2007 10:10AM # Politicians — You Gotta Love ‘Em By [David Boaz](https://www.cato.org/people/david-boaz) --- SHARE Of what other group can it be said that you really can’t trust anything they say? Sure, [Mary McCarthy ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_McCarthy_%28author%29)said of [Lillian Hellman ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Hellman)that “every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the.’ ” But she didn’t say that about writers as a group. Mitt Romney’s newfound deep commitment to social conservatism has drawn lots of skepticism. But now he’s [rewriting his life story](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/05/AR2007040501944_pf.html) in the fashion of lifelong Yankees fan Hillary Clinton and coal miners’ boy Joe Biden: > Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R) is taking some heat for not packing it. > Campaigning in New Hampshire this week, the candidate for the Republican presidential nomination told an audience that he is a “lifelong hunter,” according to the Associated Press. “I’ve been a hunter pretty much all my life,” the news service reported. > > > But the campaign now acknowledges that the former governor has been hunting twice in his life — once when he was young and lived on a ranch in Idaho, and more recently on a quail-hunting trip in Georgia with GOP donors. Politicians — you gotta love ‘em. ##### Related Tags [Government and Politics](https://www.cato.org/government-politics) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).