Your list of country artists is admirable (and a better list of bands than ex-junkie Steve Earle who is contributing to BAB) but I think that there needs to be some counterweight to all of the bands represented.
The lead guy in the Smithereens is also publicly a conservative.
We've compiled up such lists before; I'd just like to see them publicly counter the rhetoric of the left. They don't even need to spout the talking points/counterpoints of the issues. I'd just like them to say something like:
"Hey, we aren't all leftists and these organizations don't speak for me. I'm a conservative and I vote. I support the President and recognize that there are some foreign powers that mean us and the world serious harm; the threat did not originate on 9-11-2001.We had been attacked at home and abroad for nearly a decade without any response from the previous administration. Did people forget the 1993 WTC bombing? Did they forget the sniper outside of the CIA offices, did they forget the USS Cole, the US embassy bombing... They certainly forgot that President Clinton bombed Iraq in December 1998 allegedly because of Saddam's weapons program. Mr. Clinton did not seek the approval of other nations when this strike was made. Ironically the attack took place on the verge of the impeachment vote and provided a front page distraction from his impeachment.
I don't step forward to debate the issues; I'm an entertainer and it would be an abuse of my spotlight in the public arena. What difference should my political beliefs mean to you if I don't put them in my songs? I don't insist that you join the Republican party; just dig a little deeper in investigating those celebrities and organizations who are adamantly against our president, capitalism, our nation and government. There are foreign forces of socialist-anarchism and communism at work. Don't be one of Stalin's Useful Idiots.
I'd email some conservative musicians if I had good email addresses on them (I don't know how the guy who runs the Ramones site feels politically and don't know that my message would make it to Johnny, I think that it is Arturo(sp?) who has been with the band a long time behind the scenes). Vincent Gallo is a friend of Johnny Ramone and a conservative. He has his own website but virtually never will post to his own message forum. I might be able to email him privately through his site.
Again, I'd like to see a response from conservative entertainers but at the end of the day, I don't want to see polilticking from people who we pay to hear sing and speak rehearsed dialogue written by other people. Our conservative speakers (Laura Ingrahm, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and his brother,...) are quite well informed on the issues and have debate skills and recall needed to discuss problems and deflect the DNC (lies) talking points. Why send a possibly underinformed musician to fight our battles? They are just one of our troops in the Culture War.