Right Wing Watch has the story:
Musician and Mitt Romney backer Ted Nugent took to the Washington Times today to blast the Supreme Court, and Chief Justice John Roberts in particular, for upholding the âun-American, Constitution-violatingâ health care reform law. âBecause our legislative, judicial and executive branches of government hold the 10th Amendment in contempt,â Nugent writes, âIâm beginning to wonder if it would have been best had the South won the Civil War.â
Nugent, who was successfully courted by Mitt Romney in April, goes on to claim that the Supreme Courtâs ruling âengineered the ultimate demise of this great experiment in self-governmentâ and ushered in âthe smothering era of socialism.â
This week in The Stranger, I wrote about how teabaggers flipping out over the Supreme Court's ruling might inspire independents to run away from the Republican Party. This is a perfect illustration of what I was talking about, from a guy with meaningful ties to Mitt Romney.