Posted on 10/31/2008 7:40:48 PM PDT by toughwuss
Indie Punk Rock Record label Endorses McCain/Palin! Thats cool!
Heres what they said: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=6195316&blogID=445350077
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We Endorse JOHN McCAIN for president! Current mood: anxious
I know this isn't going to be cool.... and it does not necesserily represent the opinions of the bands on the label..... and I do normally try to keep politics out of the label business, but this election is too important to sit on the sidelines.
I know many of you think anything "establishment" is bad... and you've got disgust for anything GW Bush and (the party that birthed him) the Republicans (and I would agree with you on many points I'm sure)... but that is not reason enough to vote for the opposition. We all like to talk about Freedom and Liberty and Equality and Justice... but none of these are Advanced by Barack Obama in more than words, platitudes and wrong headed approaches (as well meaning as they might be). I know many of you will automatically cry Racist as has been the instant cry across the media with regards to anyone who makes an honest decision not to back Obama, but I would love nothing more than to have a Black president (or a woman president), the culmination of Martin Luther Kings Dream and the framework of those inspired words in the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal, these for so long haven't always been fully realized... We long for a time when one isn't judged on the color of their skin, but by the content of their Character... However, the Man of Character we're needing now is not Senator Obama, but John McCain!
And in spite of all the critizisms and complaints I've had about McCain in the past (and I've had many) i see only one Choice this election (it's either going to be Obama or McCain)...
If you believe like we believe that Government should be small, efficient, out of our lives as much as possible... equipped for the main goal of keeping us safe from threats foreign and domestic and not Parenting us, making us SLAVES to Government, then John S. McCain is the man you want in the White House. If you believe in your rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, then John S. McCain is the man you want in the White House. If you believe in your RIGHT to own a gun and to protect yourself from those who would seek to take or endanger your life (people or governments) and liberty, then John S. McCain is the man you want in the White House. If you believe in the inherent value of innocent Human life, then John S. McCain is the man you want in the White House. If you believe in LOW taxes (or like us a Flat tax), and that paying taxes is not PATRIOTIC, but a theft in the truest sense of the word, then John S. McCain is the man you want in the White House. If you believe in AMERICA as we do, as the Last Best Hope for the world, then John S. McCain is the man you want in the White House. If you believe that Government isn't our parent, and only keeps peoples down by keeping them in the cycle of entitlements (and I'm not talking about taking care of children and those truly unable to sustain themselves), then John S. McCain is the man you want in the White House. If you believe in choice in schools, in medical care, in the ability to fully express your opinions [political or otherwise] and beliefs, then John S. McCain is the man you want in the White House. If you believe that America is and can be that City on a Hill than Vote with us for John McCain.
We want Government off our back, out of our Pocket, out of our Personal Lives... We want government that enables us to live free from danger to our persons from conception until natural death. We want the Government to stop their social engineering and encroaching into our lives and rights. We want the Courts out of the business of Legislating from the bench and to once again strictly interpret the Constitution as it was intended, not how we currently wish it to be with the tides of culture and opinion....
Many see America as the culmination of the wrongs it's committed, and I agree with you that we've done many things wrong, but we've done way more right. Electing a man on this mystical undefined concept of Change is absolutely not what we need. Obama has no record of bipartisanship, of unity, of compromise and most importantly of Good Choices both in political decisions and in personal relational choices (you can argue his being against the war all you want... we disagree, but even that choice cost him nothing, in state senate, it wasn't a stand it was an opinion, one he's ridden on all the way until today).... He has words, just words. Obama has no Experience that would lend credence to the idea that he is ready for this position. The little we know of Obama (and I really mean little) is of a well spoken, articulate, likable MAN (not black man, but huMAN) who has an uncanny ability to speak to the masses in such a way that regardless of what he says it appears to be the truth. Obama is a man who is the least known, least tested and most secretive of candidates to ever run for the office of president. And this isn't conspiracy theory, this is fact. Obama is a man who is anything but right for our Country, in that he seeks to turn America into something it is not, a place where government is GOD where it's citizens live off it's tit, are enslaved by its social nets, ensnared by its entitlements, lacking any motive to better themselves, to be their own men and women, to make their own choices, to be FREE. The America Obama is after is one which doesn't widen the middle class and make its citizenry more equal, but consolidates it's masters and creates more slaves... Obama wants to punish success and level the playing field by not seeking the best for the country and to help everyone succeed and increasing the pie for all, but to bring everyone down so that no one succeeds. We all get a trophy, only its one none of us in retrospect will want.
I'm not rich, and I probably will never be rich... but I want the possibility, and the dream, the American Dream, that if I can dream it, I can accomplish it. I can go after it, and i may make it, i may fail, but either way, Government doesn't owe me anything, not success, not a living, not health care, nothing but protecting my life from danger and getting out of my way!
-Do not let the unprecedented expenditure from the Obama campaign decide this election. Let your voices be heard and tell them in a Loud Voice... We will not be Bought!
What ‘activity’?
I’m starting to question your sanity...
The lead singer for Aerosmith is Stephen Tyler, and to my knowledge he did not say that. Their lead guitarist, Joe Perry, DID SAY THAT.
Just in case you wanted to know,Joe Perry and the Motor City Madman, Ted Nugent are hunting buddies who have the same philosophies about a lot of things.
Very nice civilized sarcasm by the way. Well done. I’ll try the exhale until I get down to the ‘it’s frozen’ technique trained by lord Zod. :)
A little of Andrew Wilkow speaking here! Good news!
I was a punk rocker thru and thru during the earliest years 1975 - 1978 and I was one of those who hated the hippies and leftists, those that “mean well” - the beginning of PC. As in, “if you don’t like the fact that Rasheed stole your skateboard shouldn’t the community all sit down like a tribe and decide what the appropriate action to take is?” And it always resulted in a hug when you wanted them to be punished? I’ve heard all the leftist lies from forever and they’re just lies. Everyone from Ronald Reagan to General Petraeus is to me the type of reactionary that in the young is defined as “punk” - by that I mean plain American, no frills, no metrosexuality, no she/him = “shim” - just plain American. My family knows me as someone who, coming from a Big Ten University town had it all in the bag, including great grades - but I never got over those early years, never gave in to the leftists - so I’m labeled a reactionary, as in reacting against the University drivel and leftism here in the center of the country’s poop sandwich Madison, WI. This town has any number of faculty signing that goddamn on-line support letter for Bill Ayers. Anyone want to know why the son of a McCarthy Republican in this blue hellhole is a reactionary? My old man moved here from the South after WWII to get away from the Democrats and their segragated foolishness - if we only went for “content of character” over “great society” we would have made America greater than it already is. If we ONLY went for content of character on every issue instead of running to judges and lawyers for freebies, we would be greater still.
“don’t know what I want, but I know how to get it...”
That did it (along with a couple of ales.)
Now I’m going to have to bust out the CD!
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I’ve got that on my ‘puter/WMPlayer but I like Sids “My Way” better...
Speaking of record labels ,, does anyone here remember “Stiff Records” motto??
(Answer ... “If it’s not STIFF it’s not worth a f**k!”)
You lost me on the Lord Zod comment.
I googled (actually dogpiled) it.
I’m still lost...
In his own words:
“I know many of you think anything “establishment” is bad... and you’ve got disgust for anything GW Bush and (the party that birthed him) the Republicans (and I would agree with you on many points I’m sure)...”
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Libertarians are supposed to have MUCH more in common with Republicans than Democrats, at least that was the case when I was a member in the mid 1990s.
I hear this as the standard Leftist Republican bashing. Yes, particularly since he is directing this to readers of his blog, who I would be shocked to learn, that as “hip” punk rock fans and musicians, are anything but cool, progressive Leftists.
Johnny Ramone was the vilified punk rock conservative that proves the rule.
That said, he does go on to make some great statements. My only problem was with the qualifier, which he felt important enough to insert at the begnning, before he even got started.
Good one.
I always suspected there was a small streak of conservatism in the Punk movement - just look at the Ramones. Not to say there isn’t a larger Leftist faction.
Not conservatism. Just independence.
Which as they mature is destined to become anti-big government.
Which leads to conservatism!
Now if we can just keep the kids off MTV!
“... always suspected there was a small streak of conservatism in the Punk movement - just look at the Ramones”
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That was only Johnny Ramone, and he didn’t really start speaking out about it until the band was out of the spotlight.
He wrote on a couple of occasions of the crap he had to put up with, as a Republican, from the rest of the band, so the Ramones as a band, were hardly conservative. As Punks, they would lash out against everything, but they were not predisposed to a right-wing perspective by any means.
The band itself had at least a couple of anti-Reagan songs
Hell Yeah!
Sometimes they will surprise you.
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It’s true. Everything bad in Education filtered out from Madison, WI, Ann Arbor, MI & the University of Chicago - from way back. This bunch of lard a$$ liberal swine hijacked the culture and moved it to Mother Jones territory two decades or more ago - and it fanned out. Littered by the wayside is everything Americans hold dear. Even though ostensibly I belong to the boomer generation having been born in 1960, I have ALWAYS opposed them, except in Art. The Right has to get on board the Raft of the Medusa and produce great art again. Life is not rhetoric only. Artists like to get PAID after all.
Forgive me for delving into deep musical trivia, but if I remember correctly it wasn’t just Johnny. Joey was reportedly a big fan of Reagan until the the Bitberg cemetery visit flap. Or so the story goes...
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I don’t know. The piece I read by Johnny Ramone, about 2 years before his death, seemed to indicate longstanding, and deep political disagreemnet between him and the rest of the band.
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