Ted Nugent: Dewey Defeats Truman

The Republican Party Dept: In a recent episode of the television show The Simpsons, Homer, who is transformed into an opinionated Fox News-type talk-show host, enthusiastically supports aging rocker and outspoken conservative Ted Nugent as his choice for the Republican Party presidential candidate. The animated Nugent voiced by Nugent himself promises that if he wins he will move the White House from Washington, D.C., to Kalamazoo in Michigan, his home state, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Considering Romney's less-than-stellar performance thus far -- he has flipped-flopped on such issues as abortion, gay rights, immigration, gun control and climate change -- as well as the divisiveness within the Republican Party, it is tough to imagine Obama can lose the election. Admittedly, undecided voters in key swing states can wield a lot of voting power. Yet, if anything is certain in American politics, it is that even weaker candidates can become the president of the United States and byron Rollins / The Associated Press archives U.S. President Harry Truman holds the Chicago Daily Tribune, which, based on early results, mistakenly announced Dewey Defeats Truman, on Nov. 4, 1948. Sounds nutty and improbable? No more so than the Republican Party's go-for-the-jugular primary and caucus battle -- or farce, depending on your point of view -- that has played out during the last six months. Despite the stubborn resolve of Newt Gingrich, and possibly Rick Santorum, to hang around until the Republican convention in the summer, it appears likely Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, will win the privilege of challenging President Barack Obama and the Democrats in November. This will not sit well with the more conservative Tea Party members of the Republican Party, who regard Romney as too moderate. But other than not voting or more desperately campaigning against him and thereby helping Obama, there is little they will be able to do about it. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.