<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of the Washington Post at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://tinyurl.com/Nugent-runs-for-president">http://tinyurl.com/Nugent-runs-for-president</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">--------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; font-size: 1.9em; line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(44, 44, 44); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; ">Ted Nugent thinking about running for president</h1></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: left; "><br></span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: left; ">Conservative provocateur Ted Nugent is considering a presidential bid, Steve Hendrix reports </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/ted-nugent-guitarist-and-gun-lover-rocks-the-political-world/2013/07/02/7bb236dc-d203-11e2-9f1a-1a7cdee20287_story.html" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left; ">in a Washington Post Magazine story this week</a><span style="text-align: left; ">.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: left; "><br></span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="text-align: left; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Now, the constant beseeching from fans and followers has Nugent eyeing a run for the Republican nomination, the party he aligns with as the lesser of two feebles. (He is one of the few Republicans who will disparage Ronald Reagan, mainly for signing a bill restricting machine-gun sales.)</span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="text-align: left; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: left; ">“Things are just so wrong in the country now,” Nugent said. “And I know that my answers would make things wonderful, unless you just </span><em style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left; ">refuse </em><span style="text-align: left; ">to produce, and then I’d recommend that you move to Canada. Or Illinois.”</span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: left; "><br></span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="text-align: left; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He even has a slogan picked out: “Hi, I’m Ted Nugent. I have nine children from seven women, and I’m running for president.”</span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="text-align: left; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The musician and gun enthusiast has flirted with politics before, talking about a run for governor of Michigan in 2006 and 2010.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nugent <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/02/12/ted-nugent-promises-to-be-respectful-during-state-of-the-union/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">attended the State of the Union</a> this year as a guest of Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Tex.). His visit to Washington came a little less than a year after Nugent was contacted by the Secret Service for saying he would “be dead or in jail” if President Obama was reelected.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-------------------</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ted Nugent might un for president.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><img src="cid:A17DE1E0-93C2-4636-90B9-A1B230E0119C" alt="image.jpeg" id="A17DE1E0-93C2-4636-90B9-A1B230E0119C" width="606" height="404"></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">--------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Judging by the current GOP crop, Ted Nugent might become a front-running viable option come primary season.<br><br><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon</span></font></div><div><div> </div></div></div></body></html>