Cowboy Confessional

I was Ted Nugent’s warm-up act last weekend.

Not musically.  Nothing good would come by putting a country blues devote on stage before a hard rocker.  Might as well have Snoop Dogg open for the Jonas Brothers.  Instead I warmed the seat on the NRA News stage at their annual convention – just me and 70,000 of my closest friends.  Rosters change at such events, and I slid into the slot before Terrible Ted was scheduled to be interviewed.  This worked for me because Ted brings a few thousand followers in his alpha male wake, which boosted my audience as a side effect.

Listening to Nugent is always entertaining, but something occurred to me after I climbed down off the stage and he started his set.  Whatever opinion Ted has and broadcasts is based on a moral philosophy.  You may or may not agree with his philosophy or conclusions, but they are built upon principles and those principles are based on clear contrasts between right and wrong.

This is why Ted Nugent will have a longer lasting effect on America than Barack Obama.

Unlike the former, the latter has no observable moral philosophy.  Political expediency, yes.  Ideology, sure.  Morality, lacking.  One has to look no further than Obamacare to see an absence of moral right and wrong in the soul of the current – and thankfully temporary – president.  To force people to commit commerce not only lacks morality, it is by definition immoral.  To take an oath of office in which you promise to protect and defend the Constitution, then to legislate against it and fail to enforce the laws thereof is both immoral and criminal.  To be elevated by The People to the most powerful office in existence and then use that power to deny freedom and the rule of law shows absolute power can absolutely corrupt.

Yet there on the NRA News stage was a plain spoken gent who was taking his tribe in a different direction, on a higher road, and passing along their shared moral philosophy to the children standing at their side.  Yes, Terrible Ted will have a longer lasting and more positive effect on America than Barack Obama, and for the right reasons.

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