{"id":7508,"date":"2012-07-06T10:09:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T17:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7508"},"modified":"2015-10-05T08:55:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T15:55:37","slug":"ted-nugent-says-it-would-have-been-best-had-the-south-won-the-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7508","title":{"rendered":"Ted Nugent Says: It Would Have Been Best Had The South Won The Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, I know. Ted Nugent is about as foul and depraved an individual as you’re ever likely to encounter. He is the guy who raged through a profanity-laced tirade<\/a> that threatened perverse assaults on Hillary Clinton and Diane Feinstein. He’s the guy who implied that he would resort to violence<\/a>, and possibly assassination, if President Obama is reelected. He’s the guy who Mitt Romney sought out<\/a> for an endorsement. And now this…<\/p>\n

“Because our legislative, judicial and executive branches of government hold the 10th Amendment in contempt, I’m beginning to wonder if it would have been best had the South won the Civil War<\/strong>. Our Founding Fathers’ concept of limited government is dead.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So Ted Nugent thinks that everything might be better if the South had won the Civil War? Nugent must be terribly disappointed that slavery was abolished and that the union was preserved.<\/p>\n

Nugent’s grotesque remarks were published in his regular column<\/a> for the “Moonie”<\/em> Washington Times. The article is his response to the Supreme Court’s decision on ObamaCare. But his logic is unfathomable. He seems to think that a limited government is one that permits the ownership of human beings. If the Founding Fathers’ concept of allowing such atrocities is dead, that’s for the better. How can anyone argue against that?<\/p>\n

In addition to his repugnant advocacy of slavery, Nugent expresses his desire to end some other popular programs. He contends that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are more “unaffordable, unsustainable, runaway, unaccountable social program[s].”<\/em> He attacks Chief Justice Roberts saying that he “engineered the ultimate demise of this great experiment in self- government.”<\/em> It’s startling how wingnut cases like Nugent can argue that democracy is imperiled by ObamaCare when it was passed by a popularly elected congress, signed by an elected president, and affirmed as constitutional by justices who were confirmed by elected senators. At which point in the process was self-government hampered?<\/p>\n

This is just another in a long series of heinous outbursts by Nugent. Yet Mitt Romeny, who has embraced Nugent’s support, has never repudiated any of these vile, violent, and unpatriotic sentiments. The media always seems to hold Obama accountable for commentaries from anyone perceived to have even a slight leftward tilt – even when those people have no association with the President or his campaign. When will the media hold Romney accountable for one of his most prominent and contemptible surrogates?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, I know. Ted Nugent is about as foul and depraved an individual as you’re ever likely to encounter. He is the guy who raged through a profanity-laced tirade that threatened perverse assaults on Hillary Clinton and Diane Feinstein. 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