Posted on 02/17/2010 3:05:13 AM PST by BIOCHEMKY
Populist, my ass. Mellencamp has shat all over his small-town working class roots. The guy is a total ass to “little people” and interviews like a, dare I say it, like a retard. He certainly hasn’t written any good songs in 25 uears, and if you look at his friends mentioned in the article, he would be quite the enemy to Hoosiers and all Americans. As a person he is not very likeable, and in the political area he is a gold-plated moonbat moron.
However, looking at the current Senate, not just the junior Senator from Minnesota, the bar is set very low, so he would fit right in. There are enough morons in Bloomington and other cities to eek out a win, perhaps.
The slide continues ...
Love his music. Hate his politics. The New "Dixie Chick"?
John, don't fight Conservatives, because Conservatives Always Win!
He didn't make it. Actually, the Democrat central committee thought the field was clear for them to make a decision on a candidate there being NO ONE having the requisite number of signatures.
Boy were they surprised when they woke up and there she was ~ Mrs. DIppolito had magically obtained all that she needed as the Sun rose into the sky!
This will probably play out over the next few months. Some Democrat will pay off her back rent, tidy up her lawsuits, find Mr. Dippolito ~ wherever he might be ~ and all will be well and she'll drop out of the campaign. Then the Central Committee will appoint a candidate.
Or, maybe not. This ol'gal has it in her power to put a Republican Senator into office, in which case I would imagine some Republican will pay off her back rent, gidy up her lawsuits, find Mr. Dippolito, and all will be well and she'll campaign like a trouper.
I know that we live in a celebrity-oriented culture, but the Dems seem particularly vulnerable to falling in love with a celebrity on the first mention of a possible candidacy. Come to think of it, Obama was a lot like that. Then you wake up the following morning & have to chew your arm off...
Just what we need, another rock star candidate.
As if we really need another mellenhead in Congress...
It’s not a matter of corruptibility, he is a moron with nary a thought in his head, much less an independent thought. He would be a lock-step lemming for whatever the Dim leaders wanted (another Julia Carson).
Mellencamp couldn’t independently order from a restaurant menu.
Cougar is an extreme leftist and probably even to the left of Obama.
If people want a lefty singer, songwriter who has some actual talent they should draft John Prine. As a writer of lyrics he vastly exceeds a whole trainload of John “Cougar” Mellencamp types.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z1wNrPHGlQ
That was my first thought.
Johnny Cougar for Senator? I’d rather have Keith Richards.
Yeah, but his wife is smokin...!!!
Writing music is at least one more thing than Obambi can do.
Using the Obama standard I think lefty Mellencamp is over-qualified to be a Senator.
I went to one of his concerts about 15 years ago, and was not too far from the stage.
No sooner did his concert start than he started railing against corporate sponsorship, saying that the signs around the pavilion were not his and that he would never sell out and go “commercial”.
I yelled at the top of my lungs: “Hey John, what color is your limousine?!” That got a pretty good chuckle from everyone around me.
Fast forward a few years, and he’s selling Chevys.
It would be great if Mellancamp was the RAT nominee. Someone with T party support would clean his clock in an election.
The Midget from Minnesota and Mellencamp could sing duets.............
Hey Pauly! Have you seen the video linked at #53?
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