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Ted Nugent bills himself as the Motor City Madman, but the rock musicians controversial remarks over the weekend at a convention of the National Rifle Association have put some political heat on Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
Mr. Nugent, whose songs include Stranglehold and Cat Scratch Fever, is a longtime member of the board of the N.R.A., and he appeared on Saturday at the annual convention, in St. Louis.
Encouraging the audience to vote for Mr. Romney, Mr. Nugent said that the current administration was using the Constitution as bathroom tissue, adding that America had a president and an attorney general who doesnt even like the Constitution.
Mr. Nugent continued: We got four Supreme Court justices who dont believe in the Constitution. Does everybody know here that four of the Supreme Court justices not only determined you dont have the right to keep and bear arms, four Supreme Court justices signed their name to a declaration that Americans have no fundamental right to self-defense. That sounds like a stoned hippie. That doesnt sound like a Supreme Court anything. It sounds like a supremely intellectually vacuous punk.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/ted-nugents-remarks-reverberate-against-romney/
wandy
(3,539 posts)Pete Townsen, Eric Clapton, David Gilmour....
Ted Nugent more or less is a living example of the old meme....
If you cant do; teach.
Only in his case it's more like.
If you can't play.
Just run you're mouth.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)This is "reverberating" against the Romney campaign? Not so's you'd notice so much, given the lack of coverage and the fact that the Romney campaign has skated on these remarks for days. The Obama administration had to answer within hours after Hilary Rosen made her observation that Ann Romney has never worked a day in her life (which has the media elite disadvantage of being 100% true). But Romney and his operatives aren't being put on the teevee, forced to either endorse or disavow Nugent's demented rantings.
A quick look at the national headlines in the New York Times show that not only is Romney not having to answer for Nugent, but he's not even being held to account for what he himself says, as his campaign aides are out there right now, explaining that Romney's dumb comments about taxes don't really mean what he plainly said.
And the Times is more than happy to let it all go. How in the hell does this amount to "reverberating" against Romney?
Permanut
(5,628 posts)saying there are four Supreme Court Justices who don't believe in the Constitution. He was only off by one, there are five.
retread
(3,763 posts)"But enough about his sometimes awesome, sometimes middling musical career. As patriotic as Uncle Ted claims to be, he pulled a nasty stunt to evade Uncle Sam during the Vietnam War. In a July 15, 1990, Detroit Free Press interview, Nugent crowed about how he managed to dodge the draft. He claims that 30 days before his draft board physical, he disavowed personal hygiene. The last ten days he ingested nothing but junk food and Pepsi, and with a week to go until the physical, he stopped using the bathroom altogether. When the big day came, he had been living in excrement-caked and urine-stained pants. Always the hero, however, Nugent reassured the Free Press, But if I would have gone over there, Id have been killed, or Id have killed all the Hippies in the foxholes. I would have killed everybody.