Posted on 01/07/2005 8:33:37 AM PST by nypokerface
Conservative Christians are flabbergasted about reports that raunchy rock-rapper Kid Rock will perform at a youth concert at the presidential inauguration.
"What in the world are these people thinking?" asked Donald Wildmon, chairman of the American Family Association in Tupelo, Miss. "This is the biggest slap in the face to the Christian conservatives."
Kid Rock reportedly will perform at "America Rocks Today: A Call to Service," a multimedia concert.
Bush's daughter Barbara is the event's co-managing director.
But Kid Rock doesn't exactly seem like her dad's kind of guy.
The almost-34-year-old Detroit bad boy is currently dating porn actress Jessie James, never goes anywhere without a pint of bourbon in his back pocket and rattles off X-rated lyrics that regularly earn his albums parental advisory warnings.
At the same time, he's a die-hard Republican and a big fan of Dubya. He put on a concert during last summer's Republican convention at the Manhattan nightclub Avalon - which the Bush twins attended.
But Kid Rock has a funny way of showing his support.
In his 2001 song "You Never Met a Motherf---er Quite Like Me," he boasts, "I Met the President when I was half-stoned."
And back in 1990 - when President Bush's father was in the White House and his mother, Barbara, was First Lady - Kid Rock sang: "Pimp of the Nation, I could be it/ As a matter of fact, I forsee it/ But only pimpin hoes with the big tush/ While you be left pimpin Barbra Bush."
"Boy," Wildmon admonished. "Where I come from, you talk about my mama like that, those are fightin' words. Shooting words!"
Inauguration planners seemed to be backpedaling yesterday about the event following a call from the Daily News. "Kid Rock has not been confirmed," insisted Tracey Schmitt, a spokeswoman from the Presidential Inaugural Committee. "But I can tell you Hilary Duff has been confirmed, as has JoJo."
Schmitt added, "There's no greater defender of family values than President Bush."
Kid Rock Rocks... I have seen him live twice... He is an American BadA$$ that supports the troups as well.
Kid and Hank Williams have been touring together...
Kid has gone overseas and performed for our troups many times. He went with the USO and I saw him on tv in Germany giving performances and hanging with the troups... He picked up a guitar at a local pub and jammed for a couple of hours... The troups loved it.
Conservative Christians more than most should not mind this performer. Evidently he is a Bush supporter and not all of his material is made up of what Conservative Christians would be offended about.
God at times took the worst examples of humanity and remolded them to work toward His good.
God finds Christians/people where they are at, and all are sinners.
So if Republicans find supporters where they are at, why hold Republicans to a higher standard that God?
I think Kid Rock will be reasonable, have a discussion of what will be sung before he performs and won't feature the wild side of his work at all.
Pushing people away doesn't seem real Christian and comes off as a very myopic thinking and rather stuck up. (Almost humanism in fact).
We are to love the sinner, don't tolerate the sin.
I suspect he won't be cussing or being crass on stage at all.
Thanks!
Up and down that lonely road of faith I have been there Unprepared for the storms and the tides that rise I’ve realized one thing, how much I love you And it hurts to see, see you cryin’ I believe we can make it through the winds of change God is great indeed If you believe, in the everlife Yeah we gotta Make some sense of the piece that’s not defined And if you just hold on, I wont let ya fall We can make it through the storms and the winds of change Though I walk through the valley of darkness I am not afraid Cause I know I’m not alone And if the wind blows east, would you follow me And if the wind blows north, would ya stay your course And if the wind blows west, would ya second guess And if it blows to the south, would you count me out And if the sun don’t shine, would you still be mine And if the sky turns grey, would you walk away Would you say I do, if I say I’ll be And walk this road through life with me You know I love youuuuuu On this lonely road of faith On this lonely road of faith
While you are at it, why not supply us with a long list of ex drug dealers and murderers that went into the ministry?
You can find some working for TBN and other places and it seems God found them to without people going overboard about their past.
The world will survive and perhaps Kid will be better off for it as well.
PS: Not a fan by the way.
Aren't they part of The Outlaws with Gretchen Wilson, Montgomery Gentry and Big and Rich?
First off - prissy religious types should back off. Kid Rock helped mobilize a lot of metal heads and punbk types for GWB, including myself. He is Pro-America and should be commended. Yeah he curses, but who doesn't????
Second, I woulds prefer Slayer over Metallica. Slayer is more true to itself and much more aggresive.
I wish the Pentagon would allow or permit Slayer to perform the following right before our guyts go into combat:
1. War Ensemble
2. Payback is a B^&&%
3. WarZone
4. Die by the Sword
5. Reign in Blood
SSSSSSSSSLLLLLLLLlAAAAAAAYEEEEEERRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can't you see him singing that with the Bush Twins nearby?
He's not a religious conservative, he's more of a trailer-park conservative, but he's definitely on the right.
Isn't about who got who re-elected.
It is that the man isn't perfect, is known to have a conservative side and is actually quite patriotic.
As Christians know, God has used the morally low of the low to do great things.
I think nobody here is without sin, and the same goes for Kid, but he does have a following.
So, let him sing, don't expect him to select bad music from his songs, and the performance will be fine.
If anything, he might bring more people into the Republican tent.
I think as people are brought from outside the Republican tent, they are slightly if not greatly more open to listen to what it is all about and great changes for people in their lives can be made politically as Christianity does for our Spiritual life.
I think it will all work out.
I have no worries here.
You are right chris1, and this issue doesn't reflect the problem of Kid and company performing, but the problem of some who claim they are Christians in their famous all or nothing suicidal political mode.
This is very much the same approach that lost conservatism most of the abortion battles IMO.
The correct long-termed desired end result by Christians, but a whacked out wrong approach to make the desired change. Nothing new about it.
Good job. A little different from his earlier lyrics, I'd say. Maybe the smut police don't want to read this lyric.
I'm not sure... I have been so busy with school and work that I don't pay attention anymore. I grew up on Hank and have seen him many times... It would be great to see Hank and the Kid together...
Sorry for my previous reply... I didn't read your previous post earlier.
The point is, as Rush says, do you want to win or not?
Kid Rock, although I don't care for his music, is a patriotic rockers who appeals to the middle class and lower middle class Americans like myself.
As I stated, Slayer is preferred to Metallica since Metallica really went corporate whereas Slayer stayed true to itself and is far more aggresive and lethal.
The GOP needs more Kid Rocks, not more religious types. We already have as many religious types as we are going to get.
I agree that getting performers who appeal to a wanted cross section is great.
What do you think going corprate is, and how is that a problem? Just to clarify what you mean.
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