Will it take a rock star–real or imagined–to beat Barack Obama?
The buzz in political circles is that today Rep. Thaddeus McCotter will announce his intentions to run for president. Apparently he wasn’t dissuaded by the fact I panned his recent presentation to the red-meat confab known as Right Online. Oh well.
He does play a rock guitar, which I suppose is great. Too bad he didn’t announce the same day news came out that John Lennon may have become a Republican in his later years.
Mike Huckabee, a leading candidate from the 2008 cycle, plays guitar, too, but that did nothing to make me think that he would ever be my preferred candidate. Speaking of guitars, perhaps former NYC mayor Rudolph Giuliani will run again. He just needs to get someone to re-work the classic Chuck Berry classic “Run, Run Rudolph,” which was later covered by Lynyrd Skynyrd. “Run, Run, Rudy, gonna take Obama down.” (Hey Vines, can you work on some lyrics?) That would make a terrific song for campaign rallies. Much better than the tired Republican standard, “God Bless the USA.”
McCotter will become the third sitting member of the U.S. House to run for president this season. Curiously, all three–Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann are the others–are on the Committee on Financial Services.
First published by the Detroit News: http://apps.detnews.com/apps/blogs/watercooler/index.php?blogid=2594