When Sara Palin was introduced to the Conservative Right, she was sold
as a Mom, A conservative, someone who could kill a moose and field dress it
and cook it up to feed her family.
Viewers of her show were rudely surprised by her lack of skills in the field.
http://www.independent.co.uk/...
Not only did this week's show portray field-sports in an ugly light, say critics; it also fuelled scepticism about whether she actually knows one end of a rifle from another.
Ms Palin took no fewer than five shots to hit the beast which wandered on to the hillside where she was eating blueberries with her 72-year-old father, Chuck Snr. However it was her lousy field-craft, rather than wonky shooting, which raised the most questions about whether she really ought to call herself a "lifelong hunter"
Certainly she was sold as a frontierswoman as pieces like this fluff
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/...
I am hunting for moose. Strictly speaking, I am hunting for Sarah Palin, by hunting for moose.
Palin's taste for moose-hunting is a central plank of her political personality. It is almost obligatory, when writing about the Alaska Governor and Republican vice-presidential candidate, to refer to her as the "gun-toting, moose-hunting mother-of-five". Palin is the first candidate in history who tracks, kills, guts, skins, cooks and then eats big game, and also wears high heels, though not, surely, at the same time.
Palin's reputation as a moose-hunter is central to her appeal as a frontierswoman, an appeal that has transformed the presidential race. If John McCain gets to the White House he will owe it, in part, to a dead moose. A photograph of Palin sitting in the bloodstained snow, gun in hand, alongside the carcass of a large animal killed by her own fair hand, has been published in virtually every newspaper in the world: it is an image that makes Republicans, hunters and gun-owners very happy; it is an image that makes many environmentalists, liberals, gun-control advocates and Democrats extremely angry, and very nervous.
This is not the first time questions were raised about her true outdoorsy skills.
Certain Republicans become weak-kneed at Palin's huntswoman qualities. She is, declared Senator Fred Thompson, "the only nominee in the history of either party who knows how to properly field-dress a moose ... with the possible exception of Teddy Roosevelt".
Dan, however, is unimpressed. "I don't think Sarah Palin hunts moose like we are doing now. I think she drives in an all-terrain vehicle to somewhere convenient, shoots a moose, then someone else cuts it up and brings it back."
Not all moose-hunters are equal. Some, it seems, simply drive along the interstate and shoot one if they see one: this is called moose-cruising. Others do it in style. The hardcore hunters hire planes or helicopters and fly to the most inaccessible spots, where they camp for up to two weeks, shooting moose and spending at least $10,000 for the privilege. "This is the only way to hunt moose, on foot," insists Dan.
however, some people have alleged she didn't even ever shoot a moose.
http://www.americablog.com/...
How long before we learn she never shot a moose?
I'd say about 2 years.
"What a joke," wrote one viewer on Palin's Facebook page. "I was a fan before the show. No one who is a true hunter lets others carry their rifle or can't load their own shells. Sarah, you are a phony."
Pity noone ever did a reality show on the Bush's and their fear of horses.