Ted Nugent Ready to Battle Antigunners for the NRA (running for NRA president?)

usnews.com ^ | January 30, 2009 | Paul Bedard

[Free ThinkerNY]

Barack Obama jumped over a bunch of longer-experienced presidential candidates to win the White House, so will that pattern take at the National Rifle Association? It might, considering rocker and hunter Ted Nugent's popularity among NRA members. We hear that the Nuge is being urged to get into the race, and a key NRA insider tells us: "He does have a grass-roots following." That's for sure. The singer of "Cat Scratch Fever" fame and 23 albums is being promoted on Facebook. While Nugent is an NRA board member, he doesn't have the type of top slot in the organization normally needed to springboard somebody into the presidency. Even Charlton Heston, who played Moses in Hollywood, worked his way up to the presidency.

[dforest]

Go Ted.

[MahatmaGandu]

Kill ‘em and grill ‘em, Ted!

[Askwhy5times]

Well, he does love to kill his own meat. He probably has a personal arsenal. The Intellectual Redneck

[taildragger]

Glenn Beck keeps talking that his gut feel of us getting America back will play in the hands of Texas..... Hmmm......

[Right Cal Gal]

I’m an NRA member and I’m voting for TED!

[ChocChipCookie]

The NRA convention is in Phoenix this coming May. If Ted is there, it would definitely be worth attending.

[Captain Beyond]

Bump for Uncle Ted!!!!

[randomhero97]

I would make the trip.

[Retired Greyhound]

I’m a member. I would vote for Ted, but I’m not going to Phoenix.

Unless I can vote absentee.

[Starfleet Command]

Ted, White, and Blue!

[randog]

[Billthedrill]

He’d have my vote. I wish he were a little more outspoken, though...

[randog]

You beat me by less than a minute!

[Right Cal Gal]

Hmm....driving distance from the S.F. Bay Area. Maybe we’ll go!

[Shooter 2.5]

I don’t believe the members vote for the leadership positions. I think the way it works, the members vote every few years for half of the board of directors and the next time they vote for the other half. I’m not sure how long a term it is. I believe there are about 76 members on the board.

[KoRn]

Run Ted run!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Shooter 2.5]

I forgot to add, the board members vote and appoint the leadership.

I think Ted does a good job as a board member but I think it would be a disaster to have him as the President.

[Richard Kimball]

Agree. Ted is performance art. I’m glad he’s on our side, though.

[Domandred]

If not Ted then Glenn Beck!