[mountainbunny]

Point is, Johnny Cash was a conservative, but he was an entirely different "conservative" than the supposed Huckabee. Sarah Palin reminds me more of a Johnny Cash conservative. The point is, many people on Free Republic hate palin for being a Johnny Cash conservative, and to them I say too bad.

Johnny Cash wrote about poor and disaffected people; prisoners, people who were drug addicts and alcoholics. He made phone calls to a brutal killer on death row one at least one occasion, because the man was such a huge fan. He did concerts in prisons and was in favor of prison reform.

He wrote and sang songs about lives he felt were wasted in Vietnam, and about being strung out on dope. He wrote about people who thought God was on their side, which implies that maybe He wasn't.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,

I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times.

Johnny Cash struggled with alcoholism and drug addiction much of his adult life. He was an adulterer. He tried suicide at least once. He tried to bribe a deputy to keep himself out of jail when he was carrying drugs.

He personally knew every president from Nixon on, but never endorsed anyone. He was good friends with Jimmy Carter.

Johnny Cash was a great man and a phenomenal artist. None of the above is a slam on him in any way. It just is what it is.

So, I don't know what a "Johnny Cash conservative" is, but not a bit of that sounds like Sarah Palin.

Here's a line from a song he made famous, The One On The Right Is On The Left:

Now this should be a lesson if you plan to start a folk group

Don't go mixin' politics with the folk songs of our land

Just work on harmony and diction

Play your banjo well

And if you have political convictions keep them to yourself

[ez]

Johnny Cash wrote about poor and disaffected people; prisoners, people who were drug addicts and alcoholics. He made phone calls to a brutal killer on death row one at least one occasion, because the man was such a huge fan. He did concerts in prisons and was in favor of prison reform.

Sounds like a Susan Sarandon conservative to me ...

[Sarah-bot]

Mountainbunny, you made some good points, and those good point are my point. Johnny had problems, but his heart and his ideals were in the right place. Also, we all knew what Johnny’s problems were. What is troubling me is that everyone is trying to pretend that everyone needs to be perfect. I respect people who admit that they are not perfect, but they express to me what is their concept of perfect. I want to know what the candidates are striving for, and I know what Palin is striving for. That is why I support her.