Commentary Magazine   Republicans and the Repulsive Ted Nugent
This one isn’t hard.  The rock musician Ted Nugent, who has a
history of saying some pretty awful things, outdid himself this
week when he called President Obama a “subhuman mongrel.”   (Mr.
Nugent’s “apology” in the wake of the growing controversy was
not really that, saying, “I do apologize, not necessarily to the
president, but on behalf of much better men than
myself”–mentioning Governor Rick Perry and Greg Abbott, the
Texas attorney general and Republican front-runner in the race
for governor.)  Mr. Nugent said he used “street-fighter
terminology.” Actually, he used the language of Nazi Germany and
the Jim Crow South.  What Nugent said is ugly and wicked and
racist. And if asked about it anyone, including any Republican
politician, should say so. They should say so instantaneously
and unhesitatingly and unambiguously, without complaining about
media double standards. They can certainly do better than
Senator Ted Cruz, who distanced himself f