ICYMI: The fascist aging rockstar
by digby
But don't worry. According to Wayne Slater, Texas Republican Governor candidate Abbott says this is all about protecting the 2nd Amendment from that bitch ... er, Wendy Davis:
Republican Greg Abbott touted Ted Nugent today as a political comrade in arms. He largely avoided questions about Democrats who have singed out Nugent’s outspoken comments calling President Obama “a subhuman mongrel” and women leaders “fat pigs.” Democrats have also also noted that Nugent has acknowledged having sex with underage girls, an issue — sexual predators — that Abbott pledged as attorney general to combat. Abbott told reporters following a campaign event in Denton that he wasn’t aware of Nugent’s past statements.
Abbott trumpeted the 65-year-old rocker’s advocacy of gun rights as the reason to have him share the campaign stage today. Abbott says Democratic rival Wendy Davis’ association with Barack Obama is a bigger problem for her than his on-stage association with Nugent.
Here’s what Abbott told reporters following a campaign event in Denton today, the first day of early voting.
“Sen. Davis knows she is suffering with voters because of her flipping and flopping on 2nd Amendment gun laws. And she knows that Ted Nugent calls her out on her disregard for 2nd Amendment rights. We are going to expose Sen. Davis’ weaknesses on the 2nd Amendment and show that in this area and in so many other areas, she represents the liberalism of Barack Obama that is so bad for Texas.
This allows us to get Texans to focus on issues that really matter. It allows us to focus on issues like the 2nd Amendment, which is a symbol of constitutional liberties in general. And we’ve seen Wendy Davis across the board take positions that are antagonistic to the Constitution.
Ah, so the 2nd Amendment is the "symbol of constitutional liberties" in general. That other stuff about speech, religion, trials and due process is nice, but it's your right to pack heat that really says "freedom." In fact,only advocacy of total, uninhibited gun proliferation without restriction can be said to be a defense of the constitution.
And who better to make the case than a fascist like Ted Nugent? I mean, it's obvious that this is a guy who truly understands the meaning of freedom and democracy:
Nugent: I scare the living hell out of brain dead psychotic liberal democrats. I'm on a mission doing God's work. I'm exposing the soullessness of the left The evil agenda of the same liberal democrats who engineered the destruction of the greatest city in America, my birth city Detroit
They did it on purpose and now we have a commander and chief who's actually following the recipe for the destruction of Detroit for the whole country.
My most important driving duty as a "We the People" caring, knowledgeable, educated participating in self government is to spotlight the cockroaches that have infested our government and much of our media Joseph Goebbels propaganda ministry of so much of the media in this country, so I'm a very busy man.
Newt Gingrich was apologizing for Nugent earlier saying everyone was holding him to a different standard because Al Gore and Joe Biden are much more racist and nobody cared. And he said it was ridiculous to assume that he knew he was making a Nazi analogy with his "subhuman mongrel" comments. And I'm sure he's right. After all, his mention of Goebbels was with respect to the liberal media and everybody knows that.
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