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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,234 posts)
Wed Oct 16, 2013, 09:47 PM Oct 2013

Ted Nugent: ‘The threat of me running for public office is alive and well’

Fringe conservative gadfly Ted Nugent celebrated the federal government shutdown in a radio interview on Monday while also toying with the idea of expanding his own political ambitions.

“The threat of me running for public office is alive and well because obviously our government has been overtaken by gangsters and America-haters,” Nugent told Florida-based host Chad Tyson. “I mean we have a liar for a president. You know the president of the United States is a racist,” aaccusing President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder of turning the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman “a racial escapade.”

Nugent also argued that “an honest review of the federal government” would reveal that the government’s financial affairs should be managed like one would a family budget. But as Media Matters reported, that analogy has been dismissed by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, who once wrote online, “Those who analogize the federal budget to a family’s budget must know nothing about either.”

“Let’s put it this way: For every 5,000 federal employees, I could hire one person to do a better job,” Nugent said to Tyson. “It is so wasteful. It’s engineered obsolescence, it’s engineered redundancy.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/16/ted-nugent-the-threat-of-me-running-for-public-office-is-alive-and-well/

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Ted Nugent: ‘The threat of me running for public office is alive and well’ (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2013 OP
me me look at me sad-cafe Oct 2013 #1
Shouldn't ted be in jail or dead right now? muntrv Oct 2013 #2
Pedophile Poopy Pants is too much of a chickenshit for either. nt onehandle Oct 2013 #13
Run Ted, Run! brer cat Oct 2013 #3
I'd like to see him run. Fantastic Anarchist Oct 2013 #4
He wouldn't make it onto the ballot in ANY state. arcane1 Oct 2013 #5
A guy can dream, can't he? Fantastic Anarchist Oct 2013 #8
Not so sure Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2013 #18
Bring it, wackobird. landolfi Oct 2013 #6
bwahahahahahaaa.. spanone Oct 2013 #7
Well, look at this way. He'd make a better politician MichiganVote Oct 2013 #9
Whatever you say, Ted. NuclearDem Oct 2013 #10
"Threat?" Did he say "threat?" Brigid Oct 2013 #11
What is the rights obsession with running the government finances like a families Arcanetrance Oct 2013 #12
They are idiots, and sadly so are the people who fall for that crap. arcane1 Oct 2013 #14
Go Ted, the GOP will be sure to get out the pants pooping pedophile vote with you on the ticket Bjorn Against Oct 2013 #15
Please proceed, Pedophile Poopy Pants. nt onehandle Oct 2013 #16
He must be a zombie by now.. SummerSnow Oct 2013 #17
I'm sure he'll trounce Hillary in crushing landslide Douglas Carpenter Oct 2013 #19
I don't even think gerrymandering could help him win. bluesbassman Oct 2013 #20
He and cruz could be teabaggin buddies. russspeakeasy Oct 2013 #21
Rep Nugent? Senator Nugent? President Nugent? Marie Marie Oct 2013 #22
Please proceed... Change has come Oct 2013 #23
Poopy the Pedophile wants to serve the public? kestrel91316 Oct 2013 #24
"Mr. Chambers...it's... it's a cookbook!" pinboy3niner Oct 2013 #25
How to serve Man? mitchtv Oct 2013 #30
If you were President, we'd have a liar for a President treestar Oct 2013 #26
The threat of him actually winning an election, however... Lizzie Poppet Oct 2013 #27
Oh great. Another narcissistic asshole to the rescue. nolabear Oct 2013 #28
oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please please please please please LadyHawkAZ Oct 2013 #29
Fortunately, the threat of him winning office remains nominal n/t krispos42 Oct 2013 #31
Ted "Poopypants" Nugent? Sugarcoated Oct 2013 #32
He hasn't made good on "dead or in jail" yet, and that was supposed to happen in April. Fuckin' Nuge Erose999 Oct 2013 #33
Speaking on behalf of the writing staff at "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" Jeff In Milwaukee Oct 2013 #34

spanone

(135,886 posts)
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Wed Oct 16, 2013, 09:54 PM
Oct 2013

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NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)
10. Whatever you say, Ted.
Wed Oct 16, 2013, 09:55 PM
Oct 2013

But I gotta warn you, you can't get out of a debate you're losing by explosively crapping yourself.

Arcanetrance

(2,670 posts)
12. What is the rights obsession with running the government finances like a families
Wed Oct 16, 2013, 09:56 PM
Oct 2013

The two are nothing alike and it's ridiculous to suggest that the government should be run like a family

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
17. He must be a zombie by now..
Wed Oct 16, 2013, 09:58 PM
Oct 2013

cause didnt he say he would be dead or in jail by now. So he isnt in jail ,he must be the walking dead.

bluesbassman

(19,379 posts)
20. I don't even think gerrymandering could help him win.
Wed Oct 16, 2013, 10:07 PM
Oct 2013

But please proceed Ted, I can't wait for the campaign ads from your competition.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
26. If you were President, we'd have a liar for a President
Wed Oct 16, 2013, 10:46 PM
Oct 2013

Thank the Goddess and the FSM you have no shot at it whatsoever, Nugent you idiot nutball.

 

Lizzie Poppet

(10,164 posts)
27. The threat of him actually winning an election, however...
Wed Oct 16, 2013, 10:49 PM
Oct 2013

...is so dead it's going to be an extra in the latest zombie movie.

Erose999

(5,624 posts)
33. He hasn't made good on "dead or in jail" yet, and that was supposed to happen in April. Fuckin' Nuge
Wed Oct 16, 2013, 11:37 PM
Oct 2013

needs to make it happen. I'd much prefer dead to jail, so long as he doesn't harm anyone other than himself and his like-minded rightwing extremists in whatever "escapade" that would entail.

Jeff In Milwaukee

(13,992 posts)
34. Speaking on behalf of the writing staff at "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report"
Wed Oct 16, 2013, 11:40 PM
Oct 2013

Oh, please.
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