I'm not making this up NBC5 just reported the IL GOP now wants Ted Nugent

[wndycty]

. . .I just saw it in a repeat. He grew up in Arlington Heights and there is a move to draft Ted Nugent. . .LOL, how desperate are these MF's?

ON EDIT: Thanks to newsjock for the link!

Ditka Out Of The Running
Ditka Out; Nugent In?
Zack Newmark, NBC 5

CHICAGO -- Former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka will not run for the U.S. Senate, he announced at a news conference Wednesday evening. He said he had too many commitments to pursue the seat.

... Gary Skoien, the chairman of the Cook County GOP, said there are still several replacements being considered, including rock star Ted Nugent.
-snip-

http://www.nbc5.com/sports/3528603/detail.html?z=dp&dpswid=2265994&dppid=65194

[AntiCoup2K4]

1. Nugent's lived in Michigan for decades.

Even when he was a big time rockstar, Michigan remained his primary home. So I don't see him moving out of the state. Though I wouldn't put it past him to run for office there eventually.

[Melsky]

5. They need a celeb

Can't go running on something crazy, like political issues or ideas. Pathetic.

On edit
Sorry, meant to reply to original post.

[davsand]

2. I doubt he'd meet the residency requirement.

Not to mention the IQ test

Doesn't he live in Texas some place? I don't care if he WAS born in Arlington Hgts, the law requires residency...

I LOVE the smell of cooked Illinois elephants!!!


Laura

[wicket]

52. I thought he lived in Michigan

Maybe he doesn't even know where he lives :D

[xray s]

3. hahahhahahahahahahhahahaaaaaa!

Just think...the Illinois Republican Party is a prelude to the Republican Party nationwide...after the Bush pResidency!!!! :):):)

[sandnsea]

6. I'm laughing as hard as you

Okay, who wasn't at a Ted Nugent concert when he fell off the freakin' stage? jeesus christ. Ted Nugent for Congress.

hahahhahahahahahahhahahaaaaaa!


hahahhahahahahahahhahahaaaaaa!


hahahhahahahahahahhahahaaaaaa!


hahahhahahahahahahhahahaaaaaa!

[FlemingsGhost]

4. Oh, gods ... please make it so. It's Christmas in July.

I will never ask for anything again. Promise ...

[Newsjock]

7. Link here

http://www.nbc5.com/sports/3528603/detail.html?z=dp&dpswid=2265994&dppid=65194

Ditka Out Of The Running
Ditka Out; Nugent In?
Zack Newmark, NBC 5

CHICAGO -- Former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka will not run for the U.S. Senate, he announced at a news conference Wednesday evening. He said he had too many commitments to pursue the seat.

... Gary Skoien, the chairman of the Cook County GOP, said there are still several replacements being considered, including rock star Ted Nugent.

[LibertyorDeath]

8. I read Nuge is into young girls

He most likely has a whole army of skeletons in his closet.

[CO Liberal]

10. Ted Nugent Would Make Jack Ryan Look Like an Eagle Scout

:-)

[NWHarkness]

9. Nugent has been talking about running for Gov in Michigan in 06

Personally, I hope he does. It would be so nice for Jennifer to be able to get 80% of the vote!

[seabeyond]

11. family values man, i screw girls under 16

being the manly man i am, i need to have sex with all girls and women whenever and then giggles with it to his daughters.

i think not

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

12. Too bad Jeffrey Dahmer is no longer available

He had world class outstanding name recognition.

And his necrophilia, anthropophagy and other bizarre activities with the bodies of his victims, including cannibalism could test the creative abilities of the GOP spin doctors, maybe blaming the victims for allowing themselves to be groped and handled before being decapitated. Or Rush Limbaugh could simply frame Dahmer's ritualistic dismemberments as a sort of fun-loving private fraternity hazing prank.

[Hubert Flottz]

20. LMAO!

Jeff could replace snarling Dick Cheney!

[rniel]

30. oh crap that's funny!!

n/m

[Dying Eagle]

13. Never Happen

Uncle Teddy loves to hunt! Has anyone ever tried to hunt in Illinois ,LOL, In Michigan you can hunt in forests, not corn fields LOL

Sorry my friends to the south, Old feuds never die right FIBS, LOL

Love,
A Cheese Head

[Zen]

15. Love the funny Nazi flag! lol Nugent for Congress WOOHOO

frigin desperate morons.

[buycitgo]

18. ya hey dere. turty point bucks for sale

I live in Arlington Hts, and would welcome him back. We could reopen the Cellar, where he and the Shadows of Knight used to play

also, we DO have forests here. why just south of AH, there's the famous Elk Grove Forest Preserve, with.........real elk!

they're fenced in, too, so you cheeseheads might have a better chance of getting them than your sister

ha

yah hey ha

[Dying Eagle]

28. LOL

You do not have forests, you have corn and more Corn oh, and i forgot to mention all the CORN!!!

P.S The Bears still suck


Much love Ill!!

[Warren DeMontague]

35. Sorry Chief...

I try to keep the entire midwest at an arm's distance nowadays, except for occasionally small doses in the summertime. From where I sit, you guys are like the *ss arguing with the armpit over which is better real estate. No offense intended, of course.

That said, man.. I got two words for you:

"Chicago."

and, then

"Milwaukee."

Like--- that's a contest? Gimme a break, homes.

[Jose Diablo]

54. LOL, Mike Royko did a editorial

about the Brewers fans, those poor beer swilling bumpkins I think he referred to them as. Then the next editorial he apologized to Milwaukee, he said he was bad with directions and he was really thinking about Indianapolis when he said the Brewer fans.

Royko is one guy I miss reading.

Edit: Sorry for off topic post, I was just remembering Royko.

[hatrack]

14. "They give me crap-pants fever! Nuh-nuh-NUHHHHHH!!"

"Well I don't want to get drafted, and I can't hit the road
I guess I'll dump a big load
Oh I know that draft board doctor will get good and scared
At my Munsingwear!

Cuz I got Crap-Pants Fever!
Nuh-Nuh-NUHHHHHHHHH!!!
Crap-Pants Fever!!!"

[scarface2004]

16. iggy pop for president!

zippy the pinhead for vp!!!

[SammyWinstonJack]

64. I thought zippy the pinhead WAS the pRes.

[hlthe2b]

17. What, they couldn't find a serial killer to run?

:evilgrin:

[Guaranteed]

19. Run him! LOL!!!

These people a fucking IDIOTS!!

[powergirl]

21. Is he going to carry around his cross bow on the camaign trail?

I can't see the good Republicans voting for a guy who sings about cat scratch fever - We know Republicans wouldn't know anything about STDs! not!

[City Lights]

22. Will "Asscratch" Fever be his campaign song?

Maybe johnny asscratch can sing backup. :evilgrin:

[leftistagitator]

23. They couldn't be this stupid.

Nugent is a barely coherent aged rocker who, by the way, always sucked, that's prone to racist outbursts. Check this out, read Bob Mack's interview with the scumbag where he calls him on it.
http://www.gloriousnoise.com/arch/000938_nuge.php

[Norquist Nemesis]

33. Yes, they can. They're desparate.

[jmags]

24. They are a laughing stock now.

I have a hard time believing they even take themselves seriously.

[Bozita]

25. Wouldn't Nugent's Viet-Nam era draft physical make Repugs wonder?

Nugent's a fucking chickenhawk pig.

Check him out.

[wicket]

55. I had never heard about this?

Details please :evilgrin:

[ButterflyBlood]

26. AHAHAHAHAHA

oh man, it would be nice to see Obama be the first Democrat in probably forever to win DuPage!

[wndycty]

40. LOL a Black man named Obama winning DuPage would be so so sweet!

:kick:

[Jose Diablo]

62. How sweet it is

B-)

[Nomad559]

27. The World According to Ted Nugent

http://www.nocompromise.org/news/000731c.html
http://www.livejournal.com/users/jmhm/450690.html

Nugent’s platinum albums feature Derek St. Holmes on vocals.

http://entertainment.msn.com/artist/?artist=205152


Derek St. Holmes

http://www.derekstholmes.com/

[madaboutharry]

29. I heard that Gumby

was from Illinois. Maybe the GOP could get him to run.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

31. CHARLES MANSON FOR GOP ILLINOIS SENATOR!!!

He's JUST crazy enough, he has SERIOUS name recognition, he's older and more mature! Sure he's not an Illinois resident, but he's JUST crazy enough to go for it!

AND! BONUS! Natural leader!!!

On edit, more bonus!!! When he speaks, people get so confused they won't know WHAT the hell he stands for! Minor celebrity! Yee-ha! That's all you need to be to run for office as a Republican now!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

37. And Manson is a "Family" man - a perfect Republican

[AlCzervik]

32. So this means then the only way

for the gop to have a chance of doing a little better than a huge failure is to run a celebrity because they are widely known. So the gop has established republican already that has a prayer. Thats pretty telling.

[Must_B_Free]

34. How about Kurt Cobain's corpse as a running mate?

sort of balance out the ticket

[Bridget Burke]

41. How about Courtney Love?

As soon as she's released from rehab.

[Bozita]

36. link to story on his VietNam physical exam -- Hold your nose!

According to a widely-circulated account which we’ve never seen refuted, here’s how Mr. Nugent dodged the draft. "He claims that 30 days before his draft board physical, he stopped all forms of personal hygiene. The last 10 days, he ingested nothing but Vienna sausages and Pepsi; and a week before his physical, he stopped using bathrooms altogether, virtually living inside pants caked with his own excrement, stained by his urine. That spectacle won Nugent a deferment, he says. ‘... but if I would have gone over there, I'd have been killed, or I'd have killed, or I'd killed all the hippies in the foxholes...I would have killed everybody.’” -- Detroit Free Press Magazine, July 15, 1990

http://www.nhgazette.com/cgi-bin/NHGstore.cgi?user_action=list&category=%20NEWS%3B%20Chickenhawks%3BSui%20Generis

[DrBB]

50. That'll look nice in his campaign ads

[qanda]

38. The ironic thing is that Republicans consistently talk about

Liberals from Hollyweird voicing their opinion on politics and yet it's the Republicans who are always running them as candidates.

[fujiyama]

39. This get better and better

If he runs, there are two positives:

Nugent moves out of my state, MI (that's if he's living here).

Nugent gets his ass kicked in Illinois by Obama.

[President Jesus]

42. I wonder how they'll explain his campaign donations

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=MI&last=Nugent&first=Theodore

[dusty64]

43. Cool, bring on that

child raping underwear shitting piece of "human" waste. Boy that ought to be fun.

[porphyrian]

44. Nugent is a Bow Hunter

Now, those of you against hunting won't think the better of him for this, and anyone who's heard him talk for more than a minute knows he's a serious asshole, but I do give him props for being a bow hunter rather than a rifle hunter (which he may also do, I don't know for sure). Anyone can gun down wildlife, but bow hunting is both very difficult and much closer to an even match (if you ever consider hunting an even match). If he wasn't such a dick otherwise, I'd almost respect him.

[terrya]

45. They are SO fucking clueless! ANOTHER right wing caveman?????

Illinois is a moderate state. There is NO fucking way a right wing neandethal such as Ted Nugent (or Mike Ditka) will win a statewide contest in Illinois. Period.

[eleny]

46. And the administration is freaked out by Whoopi?

Oh yeah, Nugent is such a sensible choice. Let me hold my side.

[leesa]

47. I thought choosing Dubya was scraping the bottom of an empty barrel,

but this is simply absurd. Will they have enough pre-teens around for him to molest?

[MrBenchley]

48. Going after the all-important racist gun-toting idiot vote...

LOL!!

If Ted turns them down, who next? Matt Smith?

[DrBB]

49. Hey, no drugs or sex orgies in his past, riiiiiiight?

Being, like, a 60s/70s era rock star, you can bet there's nothing unchaste or unsavory in his background--another clear advantage for this candidate.

Course the fact that he's a 3rd rate, cliche-ridden guitar banger of no particular distinction might be held against him. That and his opinions, of course.

[bushisanidiot]

51. Hil-fucking-larious!! The RNC is a LAUGHING STOCK!!

gawd, if this isn't the peak of desperation I don't know what is..

[redqueen]

53. What a gift that would be!

Oh, if only... how I would LOVE to see this man's character finally exposed to the country!

MTV/VH1 sure doesn't seem to care... yet.

[MrBenchley]

56. Run Ted Run...

so we can pelt your feeing butt with turds....

Please let the GOP dredge him up....

[Batgirl]

60. but don't forget

rightwingers are always ready/willing to forgive other rightwingers for their debaucheries. In fact, few things seem to tug at their heartstrings more than wingnut "repentance." Then they fall all over themselves to band together to stick up for the poor sinner (pedophile/adulterer/bestiaphile/drunk/oxycontinaddict.)


If Ted were to really run for office, he could simply "find the Lord."
Thus, putting past indescretions to work for him.

[Nlighten1]

57. It will never happen.

Because the minute he starts to run for office all of the kids he has diddled will start coming out of the woodwork.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

58. Here's How I see the Match Up:

Obama/Ryan: 59%/41%

Obama/Ditka: 55%/45%

Obama/Hitler...I mean "Nugent: 70%/30%!

[DinahMoeHum]

59. Mister "Kill-It-And-Grill-It" himself !! Bwahahahahaaa!!!

The 'Pukes are really scraping the bottom of the barrel, aren't they?

:evilgrin:

[bluestateguy]

61. November 2, 7PM CST (CNN)

Judy Woodruff: Our exit polls tell us that Barack Obama will easily be elected to the United States senate from Illinois (before any ballots are counted).

[fujiyama]

63. In all honesty

why are they even putting up a candidate in this state?

They know it's a lost cause and there isn't a chance in hell that a republican can win it (well maybe Ditka could have cuz people worship celebrities so much)?

[Jacobin]

65. Send in the Clowns

Here's Billmon on the news:

The land of Lincoln is starting to look more like the land of losers - at least for the party of Lincoln. Now that Mike Ditka has come to his senses ("I need this like I need 'Refrigerator' Perry to sit on my face.") the Republicans are reportedly trying to coax guns-'n-poses rocker Ted Nuget into being their standard bearer in this year's Senate race:

"He grew up in Arlington Heights. He went to St. Viator High School," Cook County Republican Chair Gary Skoien told WMAQ. "He has more connection to Illinois than Hillary Clinton had to New York, and he's been a very articulate spokesperson on constitutional issues. He would be a very interesting candidate."

Nugent couldn't be reached for comment Wednesday night.

(Via Taegan Goddard's Political Wire)

So if that idea doesn't work out, I wonder who's next on the party's celebrity C list? Ronald McDonald?

http://www.billmon.org/