On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:33:29 -0700, in alt.atheism , Santolina
chamaecyparissus <santol...@juno.com> in

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On Aug 22, 4:43 pm, Fred Stone <fston...@earthling.com> wrote:

http://www.maconareaonline.com/news.asp?id=18176

Ted Nugent might run for Governor of Michigan

Why should anybody be afraid of that, he couldn't possibly ***** things
up worse than a mainstream politician.

I bet you did not think it matter who won in 2000 either.

"Eris" <vithant@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Aug 22, 7:43 pm, Fred Stone <fston...@earthling.com> wrote:

http://www.maconareaonline.com/news.asp?id=18176

Ted Nugent might run for Governor of Michigan
By: Adam Tanner
Sun Aug 19, 2007 7:24 AM EDT

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Ted Nugent is exuberantly excited most of the
time, but he grows even more animated when asked if he ever tires of
playing "Cat Scratch Fever," the 1977 hit he's played thousands of times
in a 40-year career.

He shouts repeated obscenities, then picks up a guitar and plays part of
both "Cat Scratch Fever" and his 1975 song "Stranglehold" with unbridled
enthusiasm.

"When I get on stage, I know what it means to people, I know what it
means to me. It's a timeless masterpiece guitar song, how can I not play
that?" he said in his dressing room before a recent concert at the House
of Blues in Las Vegas.

At age 58, Nugent still brims with teenage enthusiasm for hard rock
music. He is also one of the nation's most outspoken gun and hunting
advocates. And he is considering a run for political office.

Mixing the unbridled personality of actor Robin Williams with the
vocabulary of an urban rapper, the father and grandfather still performs
about 70 concerts a year in which his music stays true to his hard rock
roots with a relentless beat.

"I haven't lost the energy but I have learned how to better and more
efficiently channel it."

People close to Nugent confirm his manic ways. "He's pretty much that
way all the time," said singer and guitarist Derek St. Holmes, who has
played with Nugent since the 1970s.

A board member of the National Rifle Association, Nugent says he spends
about 200 days a year hunting, guiding clients to places such as his
Michigan hunting preserve, as well as Alaska, Africa, California,
Colorado, Texas, and Canada.

He favors hunting many different species, including elephants, mountain
lions and tigers, and only when pressed comes up with a few animals he
believes should not be hunted, such as penguins.

From Detroit and known as the "Motor City Madman," he has performed
nearly 6,000 concerts in his career and releases his 32nd album, "Love
Grenade," on September 4, which sticks with the sex and rock formula.

GOVERNOR NUGENT?

For all of his wild-man antics, the politically conservative Nugent is
talking about following in the footsteps of celebrities such as actor
Arnold Schwarzenegger or wrestler Jesse Ventura, who won gubernatorial
races.

"That would be beautiful," Nugent said when asked if he would run for
governor of Michigan in 2010. "I have threatened to do so and I was
sincere."

Some of Nugent's antics make even Schwarzenegger's past outspokenness
appear measured by comparison.

"Michigan was once a great state. Michigan was a state that rewarded the
entrepreneur and the most productive, work-ethic families of the state.
Now the pimps and the whores and the welfare brats are basically the
state's babies."

Nugent refuses to mince words and often uses a racial epithet to
describe blacks that normally would mean political suicide. He says his
embrace of the word reflects his respect for the black contribution to
rock and roll and has another expletive for anyone who disagrees with
him.

Heavy duty weapons decorate the stage during his concerts and at his Las
Vegas performance he condemned Democratic presidential candidates
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Long a critic of drugs, Nugent wrote a recent opinion article for the
Wall Street Journal condemning the widespread drug use during the Summer
of Love in 1967. He drank just cold water before his Vegas concert.

Nugent still embraces the carnal part of the sex, drugs and rock and
roll formula and peppers his concert dialogue with a word describing
women that many find offensive.

He described the availability of sex earlier in his life like this: "It
was like when carp breed. You walk across the stream and they are ...
splashing in the shallows. Just jump in."

Now Nugent says he is a one-woman man, living with his wife and youngest
son in Crawford, Texas, near President George W. Bush's ranch. Life is
"peaceful, barbecue every day, a lot of school activities with my son
Rocco, a lot of charity work."

Although Nugent appears younger than his 58 years (he says freshly
hunted venison meat is one secret to longevity), loud music for decades
has caused major hearing loss in one ear.

"The ear's not too good, especially with background noise. That's a
small price to pay," he said. "Believe me the journey was worth it."

--
Fred Stone
aa# 1369
"To abjure violence it is necessary to have no experience of it." -
George Orwell

He has my vote
Wackem, stackem, and packem
The simple things work best.

He lives in Texas but wants to run for governor
of Michigan? He's a big game hunter? He's been
a sexist ***** for years, except where his wife
is concerned? And, he's ultra-Conservative
politically? I wouldn't vote for Ted Nugent if he
was the last man on Earth.