Posted on 02/13/2013 10:04:03 AM PST by BradtotheBone
Did you see shocker rocker/gun advocate Ted Nugent attending President Obama’s State of the Union address? At first reporters had a hard time finding him, but eventually the cameras discovered the Motor City Madman high in the House gallery, sitting quietly in the crowd, with his hat off, wearing non-camouflage clothing. He looked out of place, like a cowboy at a piano recital. He also looked bored.
“My favorite part was when I couldn’t hear clearly,” said Mr. Nugent to reporters after the address. “Then, I didn’t get angry.”
But Ted Nugent’s Excellent Washington Adventure was not an exercise in restraint. If nothing else, the Nuge fulfilled expectations from both left and right that he’d rhetorically bludgeon Mr. Obama’s gun proposals.
“My reaction? I’m not allowed to do that because I’m supposed to keep my pants on,” he told CBS News after the speech. “My reaction for the masses? It pains me to honestly give you my reaction. I just don’t believe a word the man says. I’ve heard this predictable, flowery, feel-good speech of denial before.”
Nugent then proceeded to give a fairly typical right-of-the-spectrum view of the gun violence problem. Dangerous criminals need to be kept locked up, he said, and mentally-ill people who exhibit threatening behavior should be “kept off the streets," too.
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According to Michelle Malkin it was from when Obama was speaking about amnesty.
A few names provide justification: Boehner, McConnell, McCain, Graham, Snow, Shambliss, Isakson, and all the rest of the multi-term Senators and Congressmen who call themselve moderate Republicans (not Conservative).
You left out the money quote...
“It’s almost like Mr. Rogers with Lawrence Welk music,” said Nugent, referring (we think) to the GOP. “That can’t win anything. The other side is ruthless. They’re just ruthless.... Maybe that’s why I’m allergic to ties. I see too many Republicans worried about grooming instead of winning.”
That is one of the most frightening images I have ever seen.
Well, any time McCain and Graham are dancing and clapping enthusiastically along with Schumer, it can’t be good. But Fallin clapping along as well......is she buddies with McCain?
“The other side is ruthless. They’re just ruthless.... Maybe that’s why I’m allergic to ties. I see too many Republicans worried about grooming instead of winning.”
Spot on, Mr. Nugent!!!
Only two men at the SOTU last night, and they are both named Ted...what are the odds?
It is the author who obviously does not get it.
Love that pic.
It took Democrats and Republicans working together to bring us to where we stand today.
Insolvent.
Ted, you don't believe a word the MARXIST says. good, I thought I was the only one!!
That’s a telling clip. The only stand up guy in that bunch is sitting on his hands.
Hilarious!
“It took Democrats and Republicans working together to bring us to where we stand today.
Insolvent.”
Yep! The sooner that is admitted to, the better off we’ll all be.
I doubt that’s Mary Fallin since she’s now Governor of the State of Oklahoma, having left Congress over two years ago.
“That’s a telling clip. The only stand up guy in that bunch is sitting on his hands.”
Yep. He doesn’t look too impressed, does he?
Even before I left the Republican Party -- the selection of Romney was my last straw -- I found the party worthy of ridicule and scorn: the only way they could be that ineffectual* is if they were (a) complicit, or (b) utterly incompetent.
* When was the last time they really stood for:
And even with all the above the sheer spinelessness of the party, even in standing against something as unpopular as gun-control, is staggering.
They should all have been sitting quietly like Ted Cruz. Rand Paul’s response rocked. Too bad nobody bothered to carry it on live TV.
That would make an awesome political poster: short, to the point, and inescapable fact.
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