Posted on 02/17/2010 1:56:27 PM PST by pissant
John Mellencamp, the iconic rocker made famous by his songs about growing up in a small town, may be ready to move to the big city.
Speculation is swirling that the liberal Mellencamp may put down his guitar and run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Evan Bayh.
The Indiana Democrat announced Monday that he will not seek election to a third term in November, sending party leaders scrambling for a viable replacement and boosting Republican hopes of winning the seat. Indiana is generally considered a Republican state, though it went for Barack Obama in 2008.
Support for a Mellencamp bid is gathering momentum; a "Draft John Mellencamp For Senate" Facebook page has emerged with more than 200 members.
Mellencamp is no stranger to politics or to Washington. He asked John McCain to stop using his music during the 2008 presidential campaign. He performed at President Obama's inauguration and has played at the White House, most recently last week at a celebration in honor of the civil rights movement.
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We used to refer to him as John Cougar Menstrual-Cramp.
This man does not believe free speech is an individual right, he thinks its a COLLECTIVE right.
I’m thinking Indiana voters are still smarter than Minnesota voters and Minnesota voters appear to have learned their lesson from that ass clown Al Franken. So this might actually be good news by keeping a more electable DemocRAT out of the race . . .
Ugh... guess this kind of sleight-of-hand is why they needed to brand the Tea Party as ‘populists’?
Every one of his albums is based around one title track that he desperately hopes will be licensed for use as background music in a Chevy truck commercial, and the rest of it's just twangy crap-grade filler.
Honestly, I've never met a single person who has ever admitted to liking a single note of his rotten shit.
Don’t we have enough mellonheads in Congress as it is?
He is a 100% unabashed moonbat. Right there with Franken.
I want the clown to run......the good people of Indiana won’t elect such a idiot...then again, Minn.....
LOL!
John Cougar Mellenhead.
They voted for Obama, didn't they?
Sit him next to Franken...
God help us.
Who didn't think the same about Franken?
what makes you think Minn voters have “learned” their lesson?...I thought they “learned” their lesson after Ventura ( who also split the vote between rat and a Pub) but look who they voted in....of course, thankyou very much to those 450,000 voters who voted for whathisname third party candidate...boy, did they show us...
Indiana is not the same as Minnesota where they have had a virtual zoo of candidates, Franken, Ventura...
Gee I really like his song about the small town. Maybe I should be ashamed to admit it?
But I never heard another song of his I liked. And I like your take on his music.
;)
hopefully the sensible ones will cancel out the gary dead union lemmings. trouble is thousands of ineligible I.e. hs freshman were registered to vote in 2008 after a propaganda stip by the annointed candidate . rudy clay emptied out all gary high schools and trucked them to the county seat to register to vote.
yep
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