Ted Nugent on running for president: 'Why not?'
theGRIO REPORT - Ted Nugent, the outspoken gun rights advocate and conservative rock musician, has not ruled out a run for the presidency...
Ted Nugent, the outspoken gun rights advocate and conservative rock musician, has not ruled out a run for the presidency.
Despite a reputation from making controversial racial remarks (he recently claimed African-Americans have a propensity towards “mindless” violence) the 64-year-old thinks he could have something special to offer the electorate.
“Politics in America are very embarrassing right now,” Nugent said during a Google Hangout with Detroit radio station WCSX this week. “They’re dire. I won’t go into the gory details because I think we all pay attention, I hope everyone is paying attention to what this administration is doing and what the attorney general does and how it doesn’t matter that four Americans died in Benghazi.”
“I have threatened to run for public office, because I have been prodded to do so, and pushed hard in Texas and other states, and here in Michigan. So it’s not off the table,” he added.
When asked specifically about a run for the White House, Nugent replied, “That would be a, ‘Sure, why not?'”
Nugent has made vicious, even threatening remarks, about President Barack Obama. His rhetoric was so heated he drew the attention of the secret service.
Still, the right wing rocker considers himself a trailblazer, akin to Rosa Parks.
“Heavily armed with whatever media bully pulpit I can muster, I exercise my First Amendment rights like my hero Rosa Parks who refused to sit at the back of the bus when that numb-nut law existed. I’m Rosa Parks with a Gibson,” Nugent said in a column on the website WND.
