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Ted Nugent: I Might Run for President

I approve of Ted running...

I wouldn't vote for him... but it would be the most entertaining election season of all time.
 
I approve of Ted running...

I wouldn't vote for him... but it would be the most entertaining election season of all time.

It would be hilarious.
 
The fact that he has 9 kids by 7 women should give him the majority Democrat vote.
 
The fact that he has 9 kids by 7 women should give him the majority Democrat vote.

Reality check
Oh yeah like he would ever have anything to do with the democrats
 
I'm thinking they would applaude his progressive and unique parenting technique.
 
Nugent will have to get in line because theres already a long list of conservatives that run for president whenever they need money.

Yes, and just like every one of these conservatives he stands no chance of becoming president, maybe Nugent can become president of his own fan club but he is totally unfit to become president of the USA.
 
Yes, and just like every one of these conservatives he stands no chance of becoming president, maybe Nugent can become president of his own fan club but he is totally unfit to become president of the USA.

Coming from someone not even in the US.
 
Coming from someone not even in the US.

The sad thing is, I might know more about US presidential elections that a fair few people in the US. I have been watching the election itself live on TV since Clinton defeated Bush senior. Taking several days off from work to watch the election. I follow candidate debates, follow the conventions, etc. etc. etc.

To become president you must never been "too.....", John Kerry was "too liberal and wishy washy" for the majority of the US. Michael Dukakis was "too liberal and too incompetent" to become president, Mitt Romney was "too fake, too much of a stiff prototype politician and too much of a person without real convictions".

Let's be honest, the chance for a good candidate to come out of the republican primary system (and with good, I mean a candidate that has a better than 50% chance of winning the election) is zero to very little. To become candidate for the republican party you have to be the most conservative candidate on the planet (or say that you are) and even if someone who isn't a true conservative, like Mitt R. will have to say so many things contrary to his previous positions to get votes in the primaries, that he will have to etch-a-sketch himself completely to absolute zero. He will be confronted with things he said that are so out of main-stream America during the campaign (care of his own primary battle remarks) that he will have a nightmare of a time trying to convince people that he is the middle of the road man that US voters usually go for.
 
Actually as I understand it, Nugent is anti-drug. He claims to have been horrified to learn that the Amboy Dukes song "Journey to the Center of the Mind" was about drugs. Not sure I buy that, but he isn't pro-drugs.

No he is very anti-drug, except when drugs suit his purpose. In his interview with Cream Magazine, Nugent admitted to doing meth for a week, in addition to crapping his pants, to get out of the draft. As far as I know, that's the only time he ever did hard drugs, although he smoked a lot of weed in his earlier days.
 
Ted has only done drugs once in his life. It is just that his first time has lasted for decades.
 
I did serve. TD you DON'T speak for all/many vets anymore than TC does. There were vets who were war criminals, that was buried deep and fast- though we all remember My Lai... we tend to not call our soldiers war criminals when they rape, murder, loot the civilian population... makes for bad press.

You would never have enlisted, but you could easily gone through ROTC or even The Point as your family had connections. No slag for a guy to do a few years in service to country as an officer. You combine college with military training, pretty slick.

Oh as an aside... Marine Hathcock won major competitions to include Camp Perry and Wimbledon Cup and wound up an MP in Vietnam. So no telling where a bright, gifted hard charger such as yourself would have ended up.

Oh and when it comes to 'dangerous' stateside flying and Guard units. Many Guard units were exempt from call-up and used by those who could pull strings as a good safe place to sit the war out that didn't require you to learn french.

USAMU doesn't take people as officers. lots of shooters I know with degrees-Joe Dixon, Terry Wentzel DeWitt (fourth at Atlanta, Ladies Double Trap) went in as enlisted.
 
Bush--both of them--served in the military.

One of them served in the military, the other used his daddy's connections to get into the National Guard and sent to that hotbed of combat, Texas.

At least be honest instead of simply parroting the GOP line.
 
Nugent / Trump 2016.

man, that would be just awesome. :lamo

Just think of all the great Democratic wet dream combos:

Nugent / Palin
Nugent / Trump
Nugent / Cruz
Nugent / Cain
Cain / Palin
Palin / Bachman
Palin / Trump....

Like Mr. Potatohead, you too can build your own GOP losing ticket. Let's see which combo creates the biggest laugh.... Of course, none of these are realistic options; but, then again, the Cons have no realistic chance to win the White House in 2016, so any of these are as good as it gets.
 
Just think of all the great Democratic wet dream combos:

Nugent / Palin
Nugent / Trump
Nugent / Cruz
Nugent / Cain
Cain / Palin
Palin / Bachman
Palin / Trump....

Like Mr. Potatohead, you too can build your own GOP losing ticket. Let's see which combo creates the biggest laugh....

Cruz/Bachmann
 
yeah those two war heroes obama and biden are upset over that.

McCain was a war hero-I bet that meant nothing to you in 2008

I was merely affirming your assertion that the Reps would elect a draft dodger (actually, they seem to prefer them). Now I could also bore you with the distinguished service of those from the other side of the aisle, further confirming your assertion that the Dems don't like draft dodgers, but I will not.

I, for one, do not find it a big deal one way of the other. Except, if a candidate advocates for the sword, I want them to have had actual experience with the sword (a metaphor for understanding war in its fullest). There is nothing worse than a chickenhawk. Dick Cheney was the quintessential despicable chickenhawk and we are still paying the price (in dollars, reputation and diplomatic capital)

McCain was a good man and a good candidate. Other than his choice of running mate, which to me reflected very poor judgment, I would have found him an acceptable POTUS.
 
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What are we talking about, someone who is jailed or dead, like Nugent is cannot become president.
 
USAMU doesn't take people as officers. lots of shooters I know with degrees-Joe Dixon, Terry Wentzel DeWitt (fourth at Atlanta, Ladies Double Trap) went in as enlisted.

I couldn't find where the Army says no officer shooters, still it is stupid to say taking a couple of years in service to the nation is stupid. One way of looking at it the Army would have paid for your lawyer training, I know a couple of JAGs who took that route, the Army more than likely would have loved to sponsor you in school and i do see where the ROTC can participate in the big army matches. Shooting at big military matches, getting your schooling paid for while you serve the nation in a pudknocker slot AND get to say, yeah I served- did you? Better coffee a millionaire's money can't buy.....

Oh and on the Kerry thing- the right wing loves to claim silly things like 'he turned his back on his fellow vets' please point to where he did that. I found 1971 testimony where he tells the stories FROM fellow vets but he didn't damn any one of them. he didn't drop a dime on any one, he didn't turn his back on his fellow vets but on the war.

There is a difference...
 
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