that together. mitt romney meets real people who ask him to raise their taxes. none of us like to pay more taxes, but sometimes that s necessary. it s a necessary evil. right, right. you won t believe their response to these republican middle classers. the the president was on fire in ohio today. this is about us together making investments in our country so everybody s got a fair shot. sam stein and bob shrum on what is officially a neck and neck race. and scott walker s troubles run deeper than he wants you to know. there are new developments in the john doe investigation. john nichols of the nation magazine has the latest. good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. mitt romney s campaign has a ted nugent problem. the conservative gun in out and aging rock star is attracting the wrong kind of attention for republicans right now. nugent backpedaled today on the statements he made at a national rifle association gathering. i m a non-vi
run deeper than he wants you to know. there are new developments in the john doe investigation. john nichols of the nation magazine has the latest. good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. mitt romney s campaign has a ted nugent problem. the conservative gun in out and aging rock star is attracting the wrong kind of attention for republicans right now. nugent backpedaled today on the statements he made at a national rifle association gathering. i m a non-violent guy. i don t threaten. i wouldn t waste my time threatening. i ve never threatened anyone s life in my life. i would not win will not threaten anyone s life. i certainly wouldn t threat the life of the president. nugent also said his speech at the nra was 100% positive and he stands by it. you decide. and if you want more of those kinds of evil, anti-american people in the supreme court, then don t get involved and let obama take office again. because i ll tell you this right now. if bar
say crazy things and maybe we ll pay attention and maybe we won t but when you give him a platform, then you have to begin to worry about the kind of people he s going to influence. and god bless the secret service here. with this particular president, they ve had to field a lot of credible and less credible sort of threats and different situations, much more than any president prior to president obama, and so people may think that they re overreacting, but in actuality, this is their job. they actually have to address this guy and figure out how serious he is about the things he s said in the recent past. i m also curious about the report out of texas, that says that romney talked to nugent and wanted his support. because it was tagged, the son of the candidate, who tweeted out something saying, hey, that s cool, ted nugent is supporting my dad. so and i also would like to know, as far as the conversation is concerned, did he really ask for ted nugent to go to the nra and say some
us tonight. susie, you have written about ted nugent s career when it comes to his remarks about women. would it be the correct thing to do at this point, beyond these comments, for the romney campaign to take a closer look at what his background is? yes, i think so. i think it would really benefit romney in a way to do that, although he would be, as you said, throwing himself possibly under the bus. but he needs to come out strong for women and he totally needs to denounce what ted nugent said. ted nugent has a long history of just saying vile things about women, both in his song lyrics and from about hillary clinton, debbie wasserman schultz, nancy pelosi, the list goes on and on. so, yeah, he should romney should totally denounce ted nugent. james, are you surprised that
yesterday. here it is. wasserman-schultz is such a brain-dead, soulless, heartless idiot that i could not be more proud that this soulless, heartless idiot feebly attempts to find fault with ted nugent. listen to nancy pelosi, this sub-human scoundrel. wow. now, susie, if mitt romney asked for this guy s endorsement based on what you just heard, what does that tell women in this country? well, i think it says that whether you re, you know, whether you re pro-gun and pro-hunting, which ted nugent is very much a part of that culture, what he has said about women is completely vile. it s horrible. and i think romney already has a problem with the women, with the gender gap. and so i think it only means that it gets worse here. i mean, you could say that ted nugent s just a washed up 70s wash star, but he has power, he