Ted Nugent

Ted Nugent (born December 13, 1948) aka the Nuge and "the Motor City Madman" is a guitarist from Detroit, Michigan, originally gaining fame as a member of the Amboy Dukes. Some of his best known songs include "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang," "Cat Scratch Fever," "Motor City Madhouse," "Great White Buffalo," "Stranglehold," and "Wango Tango."

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Beginning in the '90s Nugent has become quite popular for his conservative and libertarian beliefs and his anti-drug and anti-alcohol stances. In a 1977 interview with People magazine, Nugent admitted smoking "50 joints and the '60s" and having tried cocaine "once." He is a national spokesman for the Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program (D.A.R.E.), advocating the "natural highs" to be found in an outdoor lifestyle, and for the past 15 years has hosted the Ted Nugent Kamp for Kids which combines a curriculum of hands-on hunting, conservation, archery and a strong anti-drug message. He is also a spokesman for National Field Archers Association, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Big Brothers & Big Sisters.

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Conservative - Libertarian - Drug - Alcohol

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Although he holds some libertarian beliefs on issues such as Second Amendment rights, Nugent has been outspoken in his contempt and violent attitude toward those who use drugs, illegal or otherwise, saying that his "level of awareness" is what compelled him to "turn down the drooling, puking, dying punks with their drugs and their alcohol and tobacco," and claiming to "have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world. I hate drug abuse." (Source: National Review Online, May 17, 2002, transcript of interview with Larry Kudlow and Jim Cramer.)

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National Review Online - Larry Kudlow - Jim Cramer

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