YOAKAM, DWIGHT LOS ANGELES, CA 90067 SELF-EMPLOYED REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE (R)
He has a great new album out, and not afraid to wear a real hat:
Posted on 01/13/2006 1:55:27 PM PST by pittsburgh gop guy
Singer Tim McGraw Eyes Politics
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Country singer Tim McGraw says he wants to run for office someday in his adopted home state of Tennessee — perhaps for governor or U.S. senator — and he's getting encouragement from a fellow Democrat, former President Clinton.
"I think he's got it," Clinton says of McGraw in an Esquire magazine story that hits newsstands Monday. "The Democrats need candidates whom people can relate to in a personal way, people who understand their lives and their concerns and share their values. And I think that's something Tim can do without even pretending."
McGraw, 38, told the magazine he has no immediate plans to enter politics.
"Maybe in 10 or 15 years when the music has died down," he said.
The magazine reported that McGraw, who has three young daughters with his wife, singer Faith Hill, was recruited a few years ago to run for the U.S. Senate seat that eventually went to Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander, but passed because of his children and his singing career.
While running for the Senate remains an option, the Louisiana native seems more interested in the governor's office.
"It's more of a leadership role, and I think that's something that I'd do well," he said. "That doesn't rule out senator; I just think that as governor of a state, especially where I live, there would be a lot more opportunities to make some decisions and change some things."
He identified health care as his top issue, and said one of his main reasons for wanting to enter politics is Clinton, whom he calls "the best president we ever had."
Born in Delhi, La., he grew up as Tim Smith. But at age 12, he learned his father was baseball pitcher Tug McGraw, who had had a brief affair with his mother.
His mom and stepfather divorced when he was in the fourth grade, leaving her to raise him and his two sisters.
"She worked two or three jobs at a time," McGraw told The Associated Press in 2004. "I can remember being 11, 12, 13 years old and getting up at 12 o'clock at night and my mom sitting at the kitchen table with the bills spread out everywhere and not even knowing I was there with her head down crying. And then the next day the VCR being gone. It's stuff you grow up with, but you learn a lot from that."
He went to Northeastern Louisiana University on a baseball scholarship and started singing and playing guitar. He dropped out in 1989 and moved to Nashville, where he landed a recording contract with Curb Records
McGraw has sold more than 30 million albums and compiled a long list of hits that includes "Indian Outlaw," "Where the Green Grass Grows," "Red Ragtop" and "Live Like You Were Dying." He's also branched into acting; he had a supporting role in 2004's "Friday Night Lights" and has a lead role in the upcoming film "Flicka," an update of a popular 1943 movie.
Tim McGraw, the luckiest dog in the country scene...angling Faith Hill. As for his musical credits, "Indian Outlaw" is the best. Everything else is milquetoast!
...Delicious!
More like an enema alert.
I don't want to sound mean . . .
Yes, you do! ;-)
This just can't be. I am almost certain he and Faith were Republicans.
Romans 1:17 just as it is written: “The righteous will live BY Faith.”
And when you see Faith ole Timbo is always close by.
Faith Hill is a bed hopping gold digger that screwed her way to the top of country music. Did you see the behind the music they did on her. Every boyfriend and husband she had was a produced that helped her along. Then she'd leve them for a better one. She has a bad reputation among the Nashville locals. By comparison, one thing you can say for Shania Twain, she is at least married to the same man.
I remember back when Clinton was impeached, and Rush Limbaugh dedicated his entire show to calls from people who used to be Clinton supporters but were not anymore. He asked every one of them about the one incident that changed their minds about him, and by far the most common answer was some variation of: "When I was watching your show on Fox and you showed that clip of him at Ron Brown's funeral."
The Ron Brown's funeral clip was amazing. I never forgot about it – it really captures the essence of the man... a real phony baloney.
LOL! There have been a few complaints in using the phrase "barf alert" in thread titles and pings. Can you imagine if I started pinging the group using "enema alert"? ;-D
Kinda makes you feel sorry for the chump who raised him and was acutally "there" for him.
I'm more of a fan of the Bakersfield Sound anyway.
YOAKAM, DWIGHT LOS ANGELES, CA 90067 SELF-EMPLOYED REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE (R)
He has a great new album out, and not afraid to wear a real hat:
Or at least position themselves that way.
Which was probably a Betamax anyway. They were wildly popular in the late 1970's, up to 1985 when consumers dumped their Betamax VCR's in favor of the wildly popular Sony VHS machines.
Thanks for that link. Very enlightening.
Ping!
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