{"id":7583,"date":"2012-04-18T13:48:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T20:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7583"},"modified":"2012-04-18T13:49:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T20:49:00","slug":"romneys-hand-picked-hatemonger-plugs-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/18\/romneys-hand-picked-hatemonger-plugs-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney’s Hand-picked Hatemonger Plugs Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

On rare occasions, I see rank and file people on the left calling for violence as a political solution.  Whenever I do, I criticize it sharply.  However, I have never seen such vile behavior from a leader in the Democratic party, or from someone publicly promoted by a Democratic candidate.  That is a Republican tactic, one that we have seen over and over again, from a broad assortment of Republican politicians and pundits.  But Ted Nugent has Switch Hit Mitt, who bats from both sides of every plate, in a quandary.  He does not like the criticism he is getting as a result, but he does not want to offend the many hate-centered people to whom the Republican Party has pandered to cultivate their support.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"18Nugent\"Hate-laced remarks against President Barack Obama and his administration by aging rocker Ted Nugent have become the latest caustic comments to fuel outrage on the US campaign trail.<\/p>\n

The US Secret Service was reportedly investigating Nugent on Wednesday after he said he would be "dead or in jail" if Obama is reelected in November.<\/p>\n

Democrats have also used the tirade to attack Republican candidate Mitt Romney by highlighting his association with the musician-turned-gun-enthusiast.<\/p>\n

Nugent was stumping for Romney at the National Rifle Association<\/strong> convention last weekend in Missouri when he unleashed a radio rant against Obama and what he described as "criminals" of a "vile, evil, America-hating administration."<\/p>\n

"If you don’t know that our government is wiping its a(expletive) with the constitution, you’re living under a rock," Nugent, 63, said in videotaped comments that have since gone viral on the Internet.<\/p>\n

"I’ll tell you this right now: if Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year<\/strong>," he said.<\/p>\n

"We are patriots, we are bravehearts. We need to ride into that battlefield, and chop their heads off in November. Any questions?"<\/p>\n

The Secret Service might have a few\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Ed Schultz and Eugene Robinson discuss Nugent and how Romney actively sought his endorsement.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Romney’s claims that he is not connected to Nugent is a lie.<\/font><\/p>\n

Lawrence O’Donnell joins David Corn and Goldie Taylor to document how Nugent and Romney are alike.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Romney has refused to disavow Nugent or his statements.  In truth, I think Romney is about greed, not hate.  And that makes his willingness to pander to it even more despicable.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On rare occasions, I see rank and file people on the left calling for violence as a political solution.  Whenever I do, I criticize it sharply.  However, I have never seen such vile behavior from a leader in the Democratic party, or from someone publicly promoted by a Democratic candidate.  That is a Republican tactic, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}