On The Ted Nugent Controversy

Seems Uncle Ted, in the midst of throwing a little raw meat to the masses while stumping for Romney at the NRA Annual Meeting, went a little too far with his rhetoric.

At least, in the eyes of some people.

To be honest, I didn't watch a single one of the pundits and politicians in St. Louis. Seemed a waste of time to me.

The pundits did what pundits are supposed to do – and believe me, Ted is more pundit than rocker these days – which is whip up the crowds.

And the politicians did what politicians do, which is tell us what we want to hear, not necessarily the truth. They're going to talk to us differently at the NRA Annual Meeting than they would elsewhere on the campaign trail.

Seems Ted is worried about the slim conservative majority in the Supreme Court, and what the next four years will spell if Obama gets to appoint a couple more judges to his liking.

He also opined that "the government is wiping its ass with the Constitution."

You know, it would be a lot easier to repudiate the man if he weren't right.

I am worried that we'll wind up with a liberal majority on the Supreme Court if Obama is re-elected, a majority if justices who don't believe in the immutability of the Constitution as written.

And I do agree that the government is wiping its ass with the Constitution, except that I lay the blame on both sides of the aisle. The only difference between Republican and Democrat these days is what part of that document they're wiping with.

But it seems that the part of his interview that the hand-wringers deemed most incendiary was Nugent's assertion that if Obama were re-elected, "he'd be dead or in jail within a year."

Yeah, that's a little extreme, but I am reminded of the election and re-election of George W. Bush, where many of those same hand-wringers hysterically vowed to move out of the country rather than endure four years of GWB.

None of those Hollywood types actually moved, and the media promptly forgot those vows.

Methinks they'll try to hang Ted's statements around his and Romney's neck for as long as they can, though.

And while I don't think Ted will be eating his salads from the roots up if Obama gets re-elected, nor playing Cat Scratch Fever to entertain his fellow inmates, if you had told me ten years ago that the government would so encroach on our lives that sane and reasonable people would draw lines in the sand, beyond which violent resistance would be considered…

… I'd have said that you, and those people considering such actions, were crazy.

Now I'm not so sure.