Ted Nugent, TX gubernatorial candidate Abbott display Republican moral degeneracy

 One doesn't need a vivid imagination to argue the Republican Party is slipping into moral degeneracy. Just log on or open your newspaper for their latest shenanigans. Rocker and dedicated Obama hater Ted Nugent has carved out an infamous new career displaying Republican moral degeneracy on the public stage. In Apri...l, 2012, he said this about the president's impending re-election: "If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year. If you can't go home and get everybody in your lives to clean house in this vile, evil America hated administration, I don't even know what you're made out of. We need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November." That brought Nugent a visit from the Secret Service about the need to refrain from even implying in public he might be tempted to consider presidential assassination.

Nugent has also referred to the president as a "subhuman mongrel", and called Democratic female political leaders "brain-dead soulless idiots", "varmints", "fat pigs" and “dirty whores.”

As horrible as those comments are from a mere celebrity citizen, the embrace of Nugent by the Republican leadership is truly disturbing. This week, Republican Texas gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott had the audacity to campaign with Nugent in Denton and Wichita Falls, TX, where Nugent fanned the hateful faithful by calling Abbott "my friend, my blood brother". The firestorm of criticism from normal, decent segments of society have got Abbott ducking for cover.

But the damage to Abbott and the Republican brand is becoming indelible, just like it became when Oklahoma congressman Jim Bridenstein was caught on tape using a town hall comment on the need for the president to be killed to launch his own theme of presidential lawlessness.

Once again we must ask, demand actually, that the majority of essentially decent Republicans shun the hateful, lunatic fringe that is taking over and destroying the GOP; hateful utterance by hateful utterance. More importantly, every Republican office holder and party honcho must lead this fight to salvage their party from the moral degeneracy into which is inexorably sinking.