Posted on 01/06/2011 4:42:38 PM PST by ejdrapes
Appearing on 'Anderson Cooper 360' (weekdays, 10 PM ET on CNN) rocker, hunter and outspoken Tea Party supporter Ted Nugent heaped praise upon Sarah Palin, but also said she hasn't yet convinced him she has what it takes to be president. "(Palin's) coming from the street, she's coming from the we-the-people rank-and-file, she makes sense when she talks, she says all the right things, she's sincere, she's knowledgeable , she's articulate, she's damn good-looking, plus she kills moose, how can you go wrong?" Nugent gushed. However, when Cooper pressed Nugent on whether Palin would make a good president, Nugent balked. "It's too early to tell. Right know, if we had a vote, I couldn't vote for Sarah Palin. And I love her. I love her madly, and I respect her." When somebody as naturally sympathetic to Palin as The Nuge doesn't believe he can vote for her, maybe it's time we stop talking about the former half-governor of Alaska as a viable presidential candidate.Ted Nugent 'Loves' Sarah Palin, But Wouldn't Vote for Her for President (VIDEO)
He didn’t say he wouldn't vote for her. He said if he had to vote today he couldn’t - because of the unknowns. And those unknowns would be made known to all of us as we go through the selection process - the debates, ads, her platform, etc.
No, he is giving his opinion of what he thinks might be the truth. None of us will know the truth unless Sarah becomes President and either succeeds or fails, or somewhere in between.
He was on Howie Carr the other day extolling the virtue of Michelle Obama’s food initiatives.
Ok your right a man named Ted says so then it must be so.
How stupid and gullible could I be?
I mean CNN would have had him on if he was endorsing her right?
You know for once I was granting myself the power to make up my own mind but screw that I don’t have that right especially coming from Ted.
I don’t think so....no one that has been a consensus FReeper choice has ever made it to the convention floor.
And I'm guessing he's talking about the primary, in which case I agree that Sarah hasn't quite won my vote yet either.
If it's Sarah vs 0 I can't imagine Ted not voting for her. If it were Curly Howard vs 0 I'd betch he'd vote for Curly and Curly's been dead for like 50 years.
I'd soitently vote for Curly.
Why help out the other side? He digs her then he helps the enemy by disparaging her. Why?
I agree with Ted.
You would be hard pressed to find a bigger Palin fan than me around here. And I am not upset in the least over these comments, for these reasons:
Palin has not had an opportunity to run a national campaign on HER OWN record in office. Other than parts of her Alaska energy policies (and even those are only known by nerdy types like me), her actual governing record remains a mystery. Romney & Huck have already run a national campaign on their own records, btw. Think about that. Even here on FR, there is disagreement on her own (vs McCain’s) position on illegal immigration!
How has she chosen advisors, cabinet members, judges in the past? I don’t know her criteria, do you?
There are lots of things just like this that will be unknown until and unless she mounts a national campaign. Of course, if we had a real media, some of this would be out there instead of the BS we do know about her. But it is what it is, and it will be up to her to state and then defend, if necessary, her record of governing.
Once that happens, everyone can make up their mind.
The Left eventually all embraced Obama, except the Hillary crowd, which was appeased with the Secretary of State nomination.
An Affirmative Action, half black, half white, illegal immigrant Marxist Muslim from a Commie Mom and one of two black 60’s radical black men who went to Occidental, Columbia and Harvard Law...Community Organizer, Lefty Lawyer, Union panderer and street politician.
We need a Mike Pence or Jim DeMint to run, Sarah is too much of a lightning rod.
correct
Unfortunately I can see more scenarios in which Romney is the nominee than any other candidate.
...and dunham is half-sexual.
I don’t believe in going into panic mode a whole year before the campaign even begins. If Sarah becomes the nominee, it’ll be because she earned it. I doubt she is losing sleep over these comments.
She has zero chance to win, the last time it was polled 26% of the republicans voters said they would never vote for her. End of argument,
Check it out. I didn’t know there were that many Freepers that hadn’t fallen under Palin mind control.
By 2012, Ted will come around, as will many others...
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