Country artists support candidates in both parties

The Tennessean | OCTOBER 28, 2007 | JENNIFER BROOKS

[2ndDivisionVet]

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[Colonel Kangaroo]

If that’s the ticket that wins in 2008, I’d be very happy - especially after seeing who they would have beaten in the general election.

[Schwaeky]

Merle, shut up and sing or you’ll end up on my fightin’ side...

[Schwaeky]

no that would be George Jones...

[ShadowDancer]

A musician's politics don't usually have much to do with record sales. McGraw is a staunch Democrat. He and his wife, Faith Hill, gave $15,000 to the Democratic Party in the last election cycle — but not under their stage names. In campaign-finance documents, they are listed as Samuel and Audrey McGraw.

These are their given first names. Due to tax reasons, wouldn't you have to use them if they are still your legal names?

[eleni121]

Get her some real C and W -—Patsy Cline (deceased) and Loretta Lynn—both Republicans.

[eleni121]

Ooops..that was Tammy Wynette not Loretta lynn..she was Republican too.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1080972409999284716&q=tammy+wynette&total=313&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

[RatsDawg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q3IVdvvhpY

Elvis supports Duncan Hunter!

[RatsDawg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhmzH9Baf_I

This song will go number one!

[stephenjohnbanker]

Yeah...........wish I hadn’t read it.

[weegee]

The only way Democrats can get elected is by ignoring the record and voting based of “feelings” and lies (misrepresentation of fact and by omission).

[af_vet_rr]

Amen! Fred is the conservative you vote for because the Republican Party has become too shallow and liberal to support a real conservative and good man like Duncan Hunter.

Why not vote for a real Conservative then, even if say Hunter goes third party? I understand why people will just say "there's nothing I can do, might as well vote for the lesser of two evils", but at the same time we will always end up with the lesser of two evils unless we do something - either take back the party or put another one on par with the main two parties.

[iowamark]

Cowboy Troy, aka Troy Coleman, spent long evenings talking politics with John Rich and Gretchen Wilson as they toured together. The new father of triplet sons said fatherhood inspired him to look for a presidential candidate who shared his conservative political and social values.

"Being a new father renews your sense of the future," Coleman said. "Fred Thompson believes what he says, and I believe what he's about."

[pallis]

“Why not vote for a real Conservative then, even if say Hunter goes third party?” Duncan Hunter isn’t going to go third party, at least not this time. “...either take back the party or put another one on par with the main two parties.” I don’t see the Republican Party being anything but the minority party in the future, with a possible chance to get the White House this time around. What exactly is there to take back? In the end it comes down to demographics, changing populations and cultural decline. A Third Party would be nice, but where is it going to come from? Some fraction of the Republican Party is just that, a fraction of the Republican Party, and the country is already divided evenly, ideologically speaking. A successful Third Party would have to split the Democratic Party also, and I don’t hear anyone suggesting how that might be done. On the other hand, I’m a Christian, and to my discredit, I’ve already wasted way too much time trying to better the world through politics and the Republican Party. It isn’t working. If the Republican Party continues turning against the Christians that helped give it the majority, Christians won’t have any choice, but to get out of it. I’ve already got one foot out the door, and the other one isn’t anxious to get me to a Third Party where I can waste more time.
...Anyhow, I do wish that a good man like Duncan Hunter could win the Republican primaries, and if he were to go Third Party, which he won’t, I would vote for him given a choice like Rudy, but not if Fred gets the nomination.

[peggybac]

I think this article is a bit deceiving. They threw out a handful of well known CW singers which, I doubt, are representative of the whole lot of them. Also, I wonder if they would have mentioned that Cowyboy Troy is black had he been supporting a democrat instead of Thompson.

[Califreak]

Oh well. Mama tried.

[sasafras]

“Randy Travis is a Republican”

Shows he made a donation in 1991 - over 15 years ago. Wouldnt call that an endorsement of the GOP. I hope he is a conservative, that doesnt mean he votes Republican. RINOs and Democrats are the same.

[subterfuge]

It’s funny that Haggard is now on the same side as “the hippies out in San Fran-cisco”...as he warbles in one of his songs.

[reagan_fanatic]

It really bums me out that Haggard is a lib. He's one of the true Country legends out there that I really like.

It appears his grasp on reality is slipping. What a shame.

[Preachin']

“who wudda thunk it?”

I think we can trace Merle’s change in thought to his relationship with Willie Nelson.

[glide625]

This is great. It tells those of us who hate Democrats who to boycott!