Ted Nugent Threatens to Run for President

Our fellow Americans, be warned. If you don’t “get it right” in the 2016 race for the White House, aging rocker Ted Nugent says he’s throwing his trademark camouflage cowboy hat into the ring. And he’s bringing a crowbar.

Why?

“Because I know exactly how to fix this (word you don’t want your kids repeating),” the Motor City Madman — just think of the campaign slogan possibilities with a moniker like that — said in an on-the-road interview with MLive.com.

“I’ve always considered it,” Nugent said of running for public office. “I think all of your best politicians are citizens who were let down by the failures of their politicians and took the reins themselves.”

Getting it right, in Nugent’s mind, means electing Republican Donald Trump and throwing Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch and Lois Lerner in jail. Nugent said he hasn't formally endorsed Trump but plans to vote for him.

“It’s like Mad Magazine meets Alfred Hitchcock, ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,’ ‘Clockwork Orange.’ It’s embarrassing. Too many Americans have lost their soul,” the Redford Township native said of the current political climate.

“These are crazy times. These are critical times,” he said in the recent interview with MLive. “When the Democratic party doesn’t flinch putting forth a candidate like Bernie Sanders, who’s basically a Communist, and doesn’t believe in earning your own way, and, just brain dead, recommends that free stuff will just fall out of the sky for people. Then you have a lying, power-abusing scam artist criminal like Hillary Clinton, and they think it’s OK. Are people that stupid? The heartbreaking answer is yes, they are.

“Then you have a guy like Donald Trump who just kicks ass in the Republican competition because he refuses to play the status quo games. That’s why he’s setting records for support. We really want to have an America based on the Constitution, on the Bill of Rights, the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule, and being the best that you can be. Then Donald Trump is certainly the man for the times.”

And a Nugent presidency would change what he calls the sorry state of America how?

He wasn’t specific, but basically, re-read “your oath to the Constitution every day. If you violate it, you’re going to jail,” he said.

Like Trump, Nugent says he’s a law-and-order kind of guy who would also secure the nation’s borders. He’d run the country like he does his home — no dope smoking, no freeloading and no permeation of the borders.

Nugent’s current tour, which includes an Aug. 26 concert at Freedom Hill Amphitheater in Sterling Heights, ends Sept. 4. He will spend a month or so at his home in Texas, then return to his native Michigan for “non-stop” hunting from October-December.

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