Posted on 06/22/2005 3:23:45 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
He said he wasn't addicted to drugs like most of his contemporaries but had a big SEX problem.
Addiction to SEX is just as bad as an addiction to DRUGS, especially when that addiction for sex leads you out of your marriage.
I wasn't trying to make an argument, simply an observation.
But also in your response this " It's so easy to say that the Palestinians shouldn't kill Israelis when you aren't a Palestinian. crap means I will not bother with any further response until you explain that line. :-(
I was simply illustrating that it's easy to rationalize any behavior (and I mean any behavior) if you believe that the only person with the authority to be critical about what someone does is that person, themself. I don't know what it's like to be Ted Nugent so I can't criticize Ted Nugent. I also don't know what it's like to be Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Lee Boyd Malvo, John Allen Muhammad, or even (heck) Howard Dean. Does that mean I can't say anything disparaging about any of them because I don't understand them enough?
The idea that someone can't be critical of others, either because they don't share that persons unique situation in life or because they are not, themselves, without sin is the sort of things liberals have used for years to define deviancy down. Sorry, but I'm not playing.
And, frankly, I think you need to chill out a little.
Do you mean to tell me he hasn't been paying child support for one of his kids? Good grief!
He's a complex guy, fair enough. I don't hate him, either, nor do I hope he gets punished for eternity in Hell for is failings. But there are, to quote exactly what I said earlier in this thread, "many aspects of this man's personal life that I find less than admirable." Things he's done because of his problems with sex are among them, but so are some of the things he did on his show Surviving Nugent on VH-1. Some of the raw cruelty and recklessness on that show was just uncalled for, in my opinion. Yeah, I think he means well a lot of the time and his heart is often in the right place but he also has this "runaway train" aspect to his personality that I don't find very admirable. And that, in turn, makes him a real mixed bag as a conservative spokeman.
Much temptation goes with being a rock star.
I guess he got the Cat Scratch Fever and did the Wango Tango with that Wang, Dang Sweet Pungtang when he shoulda just Yanked and Cranked. Apparently one of those Great White Buffalos made it home.
He is only a 'bastard' to the extent Ted refuses to be a father, get it?
Sorry, you don't get to define the meaning. The Oxford American Dictionary defines "bastard" as: a person born of parents not married to each other. Get it?
Agreed.
Absolutely. Making a mistake, then admitting it and making amends, does not constitute hypocracy.
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