{"id":6566,"date":"2012-03-04T10:30:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T18:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6566"},"modified":"2015-10-05T08:39:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T15:39:09","slug":"wheres-the-outrage-mitt-romney-bonds-with-heinous-has-been-ted-nugent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6566","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s The Outrage? Mitt Romney Bonds With Heinous Has-Been Ted Nugent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The likely GOP nominee for president of the United States, Mitt Romney, already has some pretty repellent supporters, including Birther King Donald Trump and the abhorrent Ann Coulter. But it seems impossible to come up with someone more repulsive than Romney&#8217;s newest endorser, the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20070901182921\/http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/roeper\/529419,CST-NWS-roep27.article\" target=\"_blank\">incontinent<\/a> Ted Nugent.<\/p>\n<p>With the recent ruckus being made over Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s blatantly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6557\" target=\"_blank\">misogynistic attack<\/a> on Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University law student, it should not be forgotten that Ted Nugent is no slouch when it comes to hating and insulting women. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/nugent_love_grenade.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">cover for his album <em>&#8220;Love Grenade&#8221;<\/em><\/a> features a nude woman on a platter, in bondage like a pig, with a hand grenade in her mouth. It is an undisguised fantasy of dominance and violence. Yet this is the man that Romney personally solicited for support. He granted Nugent some portion of his scarce time on the campaign trail to persuade the schlock-rocker to endorse him. Nugent was convinced and proudly Tweeted&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>after a long heart&#038;soul conversation with MittRomney today I concluded this goodman will properly represent we the people &#038; I endorsed him<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ted Nugent (@TedNugent) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TedNugent\/status\/175680421462425601\" data-datetime=\"2012-03-02T20:34:11+00:00\">March 2, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The question that must arise for the media is whether Romney will be held to account for actively seeking the endorsement of a psychopath who has threatened the President and others with assassination in a vulgar public display of hatred and overt hostility. Let&#8217;s go to the videotape:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KQJ396aSU2M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And the transcript:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Nugent:<\/strong> I was in Chicago last week I said, <em>&#8220;Hey Obama, you might  want to suck on one of these, you punk?&#8221;<\/em> Obama, he&#8217;s a piece of shit and I told him to suck on one of my machine guns. Let&#8217;s hear it for them. I was in New York and I said, <em>&#8220;Hey Hillary, you might want to ride one of these into the sunset you worthless bitch.&#8221;<\/em> Since I&#8217;m in California, I&#8217;m gonna find Barbara Boxer she might wanna suck on my machine guns. Hey, Dianne Feinstein, ride one of these you worthless whore.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s the caliber of man from whom Mitt Romney went out of his way to secure an endorsement. This was not some random, unsolicited freak who confessed his adoration for the candidate, and over whom Romney had no control. Nugent was a prize that Romney actively pursued. Nugent even told reporters that he had <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chron.com\/txpotomac\/2012\/03\/ted-nugent-endorses-mitt-romney-but-says-he-prefers-rick-perry\/\" target=\"_blank\">compelled Romney to pledge<\/a> that there would be no new gun laws or regulations during his administration. So Romney has not just begged for this endorsement, he has traded policy positions for it. And this particular position is especially troubling considering Nugent&#8217;s preoccupation with guns and politicians he doesn&#8217;t like.<\/p>\n<p>Is anyone in the press paying attention? If the shameful obscenities were not enough to warrant further inquiry into this relationship, then surely the flagrantly hostile rhetoric ought to be. There is absolutely no excuse for this sort of vilification to be used in the political arena. Reasonable candidates should shun people like Nugent, not court them. Mitt Romney has to be made to answer for this, and the press should do their job to see to it that he does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The likely GOP nominee for president of the United States, Mitt Romney, already has some pretty repellent supporters, including Birther King Donald Trump and the abhorrent Ann Coulter. But it seems impossible to come up with someone more repulsive than Romney&#8217;s newest endorser, the incontinent Ted Nugent. With the recent ruckus being made over Rush [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[260,71,77],"class_list":["post-6566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-mitt-romney","tag-rush-limbaugh","tag-ted-nugent"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1HU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7917,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7917","url_meta":{"origin":6566,"position":0},"title":"Motor City Jackass: Romney Surrogate Ted Nugent Threatens Obama Supporters","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/3\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Last March Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney personally solicited the endorsement of washed-up raunch-rocker, and demented pseudo-patriot Ted Nugent. 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