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Politics

He's a Cowboy, Baby

Peter Suderman | 2.28.2012 10:43 PM

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Here is an actual headline from this morning's New York Daily News: "Mitt Romney personally recruited Kid Rock to campaign event." It's accompanied by this photo:

Here's Kid Rock's video for his song "American Bad Ass":

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Peter Suderman is features editor at Reason.

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  1. anonymous   13 years ago

    Most of the country loves Kid Rock, Nickelback, and Mudvayne.

    How out of touch are we?

    1. RyanXXX   13 years ago

      It’s not us. It’s everyone else, trust me

  2. RyanXXX   13 years ago

    Kid Rock has degenerated into a Nascar boob. He did some shitty recruiting commercial for some armed forces branch a while back, too

  3. Fist of Etiquette   13 years ago

    Splashing through the sand-bar

    talking by the camp fire.

    It’s the simple things in life like when and where.

    We didn’t have no internet

    but man I never will forget

    the way he pushed that goddamn Romneycare.

    1. Montani Semper Liberi   13 years ago

      Aaaahooo!
      Werewolves of London

      1. NAL   13 years ago

        I don’t know why, but that cracked me up. Thanks.

    2. Just Dropping By   13 years ago

      I hope that Zevon’s estate at least got some money from Rock for the right to rape one of the most classic musical hooks in the last 40 years.

  4. Hooda Helle   13 years ago

    What is a “Kid Rock”? Is it like a “Pet Rock”?

    1. Ronnie   13 years ago

      More like a “Snaggle Rock” than a “Plymouth Rock”.

      1. Sudden   13 years ago

        Fraggle Rock?

        1. Mutterer   13 years ago

          *clap* *clap*

  5. Fist of Etiquette   13 years ago

    “He’d written down some questions for me,” Romney said before the singer took the stage. “He said first of all, he said, ‘Mitt, if you’re elected president, will you help me help the state of Michigan?’ And I said I would.”

    So the “profit” comes immediately after the “???”, right?

  6. M. Moore   13 years ago

    Snobs, condom users, birth control pill poppers defeat Santorum in Michigan.

  7. M. Moore   13 years ago

    To mark his Michigan loss, Santorum orders followers not to have “sex for pleasure” — unless it is “man on dog sex.”

  8. M. Moore   13 years ago

    Mitt to Detroit: Drop Dead. The Mitten to Mitt: See you for the shellacking in November!

  9. Brent 'Data' Bob Wheeler   13 years ago

    I’m getting depressed. When Bill Maher goes on hiatus and the Republican debates end there will be precious few laughs on t.v.

    1. curiousgeorge   13 years ago

      Bill Maher produces laughs?

      This is news to me.

    2. curiousgeorge   13 years ago

      Bill Maher produces laughs?

      This is news to me.

      1. Xenocles   13 years ago

        Yeah, I laugh at that guy all the time.

  10. B. Maher   13 years ago

    If you’re a working-class American who still votes Republican … you’re stupid

    1. A Serious Man   13 years ago

      Bill Maher has the intellect and insightfullness of a smart ass 17-year old. The fact that he refers to himself as a libertarian makes me vomit.

      Yeah Bill, there is more to being a libertarian than just smoking pot and snorting blow off a hooker’s chest, there is that thing called the non-aggression principle and that pertains to economic liberty and freedom from government coercion.

      1. Brian from Texas   13 years ago

        Didn’t Maher recently donate $1 million to a pro-Obama super-PAC? That’s like Bob Barr still calling himself a Libertarian while supporting Newt Gingrich.

      2. NAL   13 years ago

        Yeah, Maher’s a redistributionist through and through. The only thing that separates him from being a true liberal is that he doesn’t kiss Muslim ass and then put down Christians for their intolerant social values. He hates on both groups.

      3. Joshua   13 years ago

        He’s not a libertarian, but he is the best version of a progressive. He’s at least only half statist.

  11. Brian from Texas   13 years ago

    I’m surprised the Puritan-in-Chief Santorum didn’t blast Romney for reaching out to a celebrity who sings songs about sex out of wedlock.

  12. A Serious Man   13 years ago

    Romney pulls it out in Michigan, Santorum Disappointed.

  13. Metazoan   13 years ago

    I suppose we didn’t get to see Santorum surging from Romney’s behind today 🙁

    1. Rev. Blue Moon   13 years ago

      do you have any new material there, Gallagher?

  14. ?   13 years ago

    “Aaaahooo! Werewolves of London” should always be the first reply to song lyrics.

    Most of the country loves Kid Rock, Nickelback, and Mudvayne.

    They only sell a couple million records each. Most people don’t care about music at all or ever even intentionally listen to it.

    AAAAHOOO

    1. HeroicMulatto   13 years ago

      Most people don’t care about music at all or ever even intentionally listen to it.

      Where the fuck do you live, Taliban-controlled Afghanistan?

    2. toxic   13 years ago

      Most of the country loves Kid Rock, Nickelback, and Mudvayne.

      Ehhh… no.

      A lot of the people who still buy CDs love Kid Rock and Nickelback. Not so much Mudvayne. There’s a key difference there.

      There’s a certain segment of the population that doesn’t realize that Kid Rock is basically Weird Al without a sense of humor. The Kid Rock demographic is people who think Queen ripped off Under Pressure from Vanilla Ice. I’m not sure where I’m going with this, except that it involves pointing out that 50% of the world is closer to being mentally handicapped than they are to joining Mensa.

      It is how it is.

      1. Rev. Blue Moon   13 years ago

        I’m not sure where I’m going with this, except that it involves pointing out that 50% of the world is closer to being mentally handicapped than they are to joining Mensa.

        Hey, that means odds are YOU’RE closer to being retarded too! Imagine that – and I didn’t even really need the odds to know that already.

  15. anonymous   13 years ago

    Santorum just has that ‘taking it from behind’ look on his face. Very punchable.

  16. Comcast Sucks (Coxswain Hardy)   13 years ago

    Is Nickelback The Worst Band Ever

    1. Brett L   13 years ago

      Ever is a big hill. Worst band to have multiple gold records since disco, easily.

    2. Proprietist   13 years ago

      Yes, Nickelback and their ilk have eliminated the Eagles from “worst band ever” contention.

  17. Mutterer   13 years ago

    Did Sleepy’s get a new ad song? Thank god.

  18. Happy Place   13 years ago

    Romney sucks do we get pissed and vote Obama as a fuck you to all the Romney voters now?

  19. Mutterer   13 years ago

    I thought Ricky Santorum was the guitarist for Bon Jovi

  20. New Commenter   13 years ago

    Hello. I was recently told by a friend that libertarians will only hasten the moral decay and degeneracy facing our nation, through their promotion of premarital sex, availability of contraception to minors, acceptance of illegal drug use, and comfort with abortion on demand.

    Are these things true?

  21. Troy   13 years ago

    I am calling the election now. Obama is going to win by an easy margin and the shit-for-brain media will portray it as a landslide. However, Lots of social conservative and people who rather vote for a goldfish than Mitt Romney will have stayed at home.

  22. thejerk   13 years ago

    I remember an early ICP song that had Kid Rock on it. If played to every Republican it would force them to rethink both this endorsement and Romney’s campaign.

  23. Troy   13 years ago

    Hey, you know, I was thinking. Santorum is a real genuine work issue with porno stars who do ATM scenes.

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  25. Nundner   13 years ago

    He’s a Pirate

  26. Scotch Man   13 years ago

    You can roll with Mitt or you can suck my dick!

  27. SugarFree   13 years ago

    Kid Rock died for your sins, and all you fuckers can think to do is mock him.

  28. Butts Wagner   13 years ago

    I saw Kid Rock about 6 months before he got famous. He sucked then too.

  29. Old Bull Lee   13 years ago

    I’m not going to defend Kid Rock here, but I don’t see why he deserves any more or less scorn than the scores of pro-Obama musicians.

    1. Eric   13 years ago

      IDK…Because most of them are talented???

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  31. Invisible Finger   13 years ago

    What’s so unusual about two bullshitters shaking hands?

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