Nugent Endorses Romney But Prefers "Real" Perry
Waco-area resident and rock star Ted Nugent announced today on Twitter that he was endorsing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's bid for the GOP presidential nomination. But he said things would be different if Texas Gov. Rick Perry had run a different campiagn.
"If the real Rick Perry had been at those debates, he would still be in the race," Nugent told the Tribune Friday. "It is my firm belief that Rick Perry would have [made] and would make the best president we could choose."
Perry's poll numbers plummetted following a string of poor debate performances and public ...
Comments (28)
Randy Case via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Nugent! HA!
Neil Moyer via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Nugent is the motor city wildman!
Debbie Mason via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Nugent is washed up like Romney and Perry. Who gives a crap what he thinks? I stopped listening to him when he came to TX and did a concert and said not nice things about Hispanics. He belongs with the GOP he fits right in.
Robert Sheldon via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I endorse Larry the cable guy.........will the TT come out and interview me?
Michael Espinoza via Texas Tribune on Facebook
NUGENT! BOOO! Ha!
Scott Nicol via Texas Tribune on Facebook
US Fish and Wildlife "out of control"? Seriously?
Mary Ellen Graf via Texas Tribune on Facebook
more nutty stuff...
David Huang via Texas Tribune on Facebook
By "out of control" does he mean "BAWWWWWWWWW THEY WON'T LET ME HUNT AND FISH WHAT I WANT WHEN I WANT WHERE I WANT BAWWWWWWWWWWW"
Stan Raines via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Things would be different if Rick had been different. How true and how much like the wishful thinking that has beset the tea-party wing for the last several years.
Sergio Hernandez De Santos via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Waco Area Wacko endorses another Wacko!
Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Nugent should move back to Michigan. Have there been any gun laws changed? Hell no. A non-Issue.
Jimmie Randall via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I stopped reading after
"Waco "and " Nugent. "
Tedi Elliott via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Nugent...pffft.
Ron Blancarte via Texas Tribune on Facebook
And this matters because why? Who really cares who Ted Nugent endorses?
Colin Strother via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Another example of how cuts to mental health services are impacting Texas!
Barbry Allen via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I'll try to break this to you gently, Cat-Scratch-Fever man, but that was the "real Perry." Feel bad for us yet?
Elizabeth Heaston via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I had to try hard to remember who the heck "Nugent" was.
Michael Tex Duncan via Texas Tribune on Facebook
"no new gun laws or restrictions on Second Amendment rights in his administration." With that standard, he could have endorsed Obama.
Carol Goodwin
No, Nugent; in essence you are supporting Barack Hussein Obama! Any vote for anyone other than RON PAUL, is a vote for more of that African liar! I do so hope enough people get on the bandwagon with Sheriff Arpaio to drum that fraudulent despot out of the country!
RON PAUL has all the right stuff to give us back individual liberties and freedom getting the government out of our personal business and giving us a republic once again. Doesn't anyone understand that we are supposed to have smaller government?
None of the other candidates think this way. They are all about control just like Obama! They do not want to scale back the controls of government! Is that what you really want???
Robert Chapman
I suppose the debauched, hyper-sexual, shallow image Ted Nugent portrays in his on-stage persona is the "real" Ted Nugent.
Interesting that politicians are expected to reveal their innermost, private selves for public perusal, but bad boy rock stars get to keep their private lives.
Great endorsement Ted.
Keep on keeping it real.
Jim Arnold
Who cares.
Dale Curry
ROFLMAO!!!!!!! Pssst!, Texas Tribune. Love your publication but I need to tell you that the delusional views of some talentless hate filled bigoted homophobe is NOT news. Well, ok, I guess when it is Perry it sorta is... While it is enjoyable to watch this pathetic hack lament the failure that is and was Rick Perry, at some point it just becomes sad and uncomfortable to watch some "has been" try to prove he is still relevant. As to his vicious anti-gay stances, this from a man who was ranked #63 spot on Spin magazine’s 100 Most Sleaziest moments of Rock. As to America being in a suicidal tailspin, and abuse of power (e.g. what is weapons of mass destruction and Halliburton) well that started when Bush took us from surplus to structural deficit. But don’t stress your few remaining brain cells Mr. Nugent, we have a guy in there that is cleaning up the mess left by Bush and “deficits don’t matter” Dick Cheney.
Bill Asher
Nugents endorsement: The kiss of death.
Del Murphy
Teddy, Teddy, Teddy. Romney will tell you what you tell him to tell you. He is more promiscuous than Paris Hilton that way.
JC DemocratofTejas
Who cares! Ted Nugent...not the brightest bulb in the pack.
JC DemocratofTejas
Obviously Carol Goodwin, you too are a racist with hate fueling your ability to wake up in the morning. Voting for Ron Paul is like flushing your vote down the toilet. No doubt if your town was hit by a tornado or hurricane you'd be the loudest screamer for government assistance. Get a grip and go away!
Peter Stern
Always knew there was a reason I didn't much like Ted Nugent. Too many drugs must cloud his reality. Thank God that most American voters don't agree re: Rick Perry.
Viola Perry
I remember Nugent when he pooped in his pants when he got orders to Vietnam! Coward!