The All-American Male Conservative Republican

Ted Nugent is a hero to many Republicans.  He kills his own food.  He strokes off to his guns.  He tells the government to take a flying leap even threatening to wage war against it because a free and fair democratic election didn't go as he hoped. He wraps himself in the flag and talks almost non-stop about how much he loves his country.  He has lots of money.  He is his own man.  Independent and proud. We all strive to be as manly, as patriotic and as conservative as Nugent.

Typical Republican behavior no doubt about it.  It's almost narcissistic to a point. But then you realize the whole embodiment is fraudulent.  I can list forever so many Republicans portraying themselves in the same mold as Nugent.  Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Dick Cheney, Bill O'Reilly, Mike Huckabee, Michelle Bachmann, Sara Palin, Karl Rove, Rep. Joe Walsh, Mitt Romney...etc.  So many it would take hours if not days to list them all.

Because of Nugent's on-camera persona, we sometimes forget that he loves his country so much and is so tough and manly that he got 4 deferments from military service in Vietnam.  But thanks to fellow rocker Dee Snider, we can all remember that not only did Nugent refuse to answer his country's call, he went to huge strides to dodge service all together.  As Nugent himself told a biographer in 1977, he crapped on himself for days and refused to bathe to get out of military service:

Well, on that day I ceased cleansing my body.  No more brushing my teeth, no more washing my hair, no baths, no soap, no water. Thirty days of debris build. I stopped shavin’ and I was 18, had a little scraggly beard, really looked like a hippie. I had long hair, and it started gettin’ kinky, matted up. Then two weeks before, I stopped eating any food with nutritional value. I just had chips, Pepsi, beer-stuff I never touched-buttered poop, little jars of Polish sausages, and I’d drink the syrup, I was this side of death. Then a week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. Poop, piss the whole shot. My pants got crusted up.

Let's get this straight. One of the most macho, manly, warrior patriots of the Republican Party, who routinely calls for armed rebellion against the government, who wraps himself in the flag every chance he gets, and who calls anyone who doesn't believe or vote like he does an anti-American shit on himself for days to avoid fighting in a war during a time when his country needed him most.  Yep.  As Republican as it gets.