Oh man. I know fumf has been waiting for this day… I’m not exactly sure this is good for the NRA, however, since Nugent has a bit of a reputation for, well, being completely bat shit psychotic. Sure, he will connect with a big portion of the audience, but part of the problem will be reaching out to anti-gun advocates, and I don’t really see that working out.

RTFA: http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/20…

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.