

The only reason I wrote this book is because of my manager, Ken Levitan, who I’ve been with for six years. It hasn’t been as bad as I expected it to be. “Every now and then I’m taken to task by somebody who adamantly opposes a stance,” he says. And the immigration policy I vehemently disagree with.”Īnd we care about all of this from the man who gave us “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk” ?Īdkins laughs - he knew someone would go there. You have to ask American people to sacrifice at a time of war. I don’t believe in tax cuts in a time of war. I don’t think it’s wrong to have a seven-day waiting period for buying a machine gun.

But I disagree with a lot of things this administration has done and the stances the NRA takes on things. I don’t tow the line for anybody - not for the Republicans or for the NRA and I’m a member and I’m a Republican because I don’t have anywhere else to go. “I hate to steal a line from Mike Huckabee - ‘I’m a conservative but not mad about it’ - but that’s how I feel,” Adkins says. “We should be able to have our differences and be civil and even friends and work together,” Adkins says in his distinct, booming voice on the phone from Nashville. Someone’s gonna get their badonkadonk bopped. Republican country star Trace Adkins, a self-described “Dennis Miller conservative,” a 6-foot-6 member of the NRA, shot through the heart by an ex-wife, author of “A Personal Stand: Observations and Opinions from a Freethinking Roughneck” (Villard $23.95), picks up the phone to call a moderate Democrat.
