Ted Nugent is the new Danny Bonaduce, only not quite as charming.

He’s willing to do whatever it takes to let you know he’s still alive, still “relevant,” still a name that draws crowds and money. And he does. There’s no denying that, but the further he drifts from his music career sagging like a flag in a vacuum chamber, the more outrageous he has to become in order to keep his name in the Klieg lights, the more his fans and admirers slip down the chain of evolution to the intelligence of an amoeba.

This washed-up rock star, self-proclaimed sex addict and pedophile, bigot, racist and pseudo-pundit has to lower himself to WWF theatrics in order to remain in the public eye at all, and that’s only from time to time. Perhaps that is why an egomaniac such as himself might feel insecure enough to resort to name-dropping, too. Political name dropping at that.

In a Google hangout interview with 94.7 WCSX at the end of October, NRA board member and whack conservative columnist Ted Nugent claimed that he works regularly and closely with a “who’s who” list of conservative sheisters and scumbags. Together they comprise a great start to what many would consider a GOP super-villain team comprised of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Michigan Gov. John Engler (puppet-master for Rick Snyder), Texas Gov. Rick Perry, and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. That’s truly some company to align with!

Nugent offered the dubious list of compatriots and peers gratuitously when questioned about his role as co-chair of Republican Sid Miller’s campaign for Texas Agriculture Commissioner, referencing his alleged role in the 2011 showdown between Scott Walker and labor unions in Wisconsin when he “took it away from the hippies”. Right, because the labor force in America is primarily made up of counter-culture hipsters from fifty years ago. Ted’s language and comparison are as outdated as his music and social awareness.

Nugent continued spewing:

I’m contacted all the time, I work close with Ted Cruz who is a great patriot, a great statesman. I worked close with Scott Walker’s team in Wisconsin when he took it away from the hippies and got rid of the [unintelligible] and got some freedom back in Wisconsin. I’ve worked with Governor Engler in the past. I’ve worked with different sheriffs and different attorney generals. I work closely with Greg Abbot and Governor Perry in Texas.

This all wreaks of embellishment, but let’s give Ted the benefit of the doubt anyway, since none of the listed politicians have rejected Nugent or denied his publicly proclaimed ties to him.

Despite Ted’s many racially ignorant, insensitive flops and flounders of which he does not apologize (instead stepping even further into lunacy by comparing himself to “Rosa Park with a Gibson“) these fine, upstanding politicians who allegedly listen to and serve the American people (so long as they are white and wealthy) continue to allow themselves to be associated with a man who told President Barak Obama to suck on his machine gun while on stage performing at a rock concert.

Known for his racial insensitivity while simultaneous co-opting the Civil Rights movement on the behalf of gun rights, Nugent has also been known for making offending quips about women, Muslims, immigrants, and the LGBTQ community, as well. Yet he and his government pen pals represent America? The people?

This is the same man who, invited by Tea Party Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) to the 2013 State of the Union address with many victims of gun violence in attendance, said that Rep. Jim Langevin (D-RI) (paralyzed due to a gun accident that occurred when he was a teenager)? “probably has shit for brains.” Nugent claimed his presence there that day was to counter “pawns” and “props” of Obama’s “anti-gun agenda.”

Perhaps Ted is delirious. Perhaps he has sang “Cat Scratch Fever” too long. One can only surround themselves with feces for so long before being overcome by the fumes. Perhaps this pompous rock star spouting sobriety has really been a jenkem addict all along.

If Ted Nugent truly represents a majority of the American public, one might as well take up a Krokodil habit. This is what a nation in decay looks like.

Ted Nugent, Spokesperson For Hate & The NRA

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Edited/Published by: SB