Would you believe that a majority of pop musicians disagree with Republican dogma? In recent days Newt Gingrich was sued by the co-author of "Eye of the Tiger" after he used it at numerous campaign events, and Mitt Romney was asked by K'naan to stop using his song "Wavin' Flag." "I'm for immigrants. I'm for poor people, and they don't seem to be what he's endorsing," the rapper told the Times. "My song being his victory song didn't seem quite right." So where can the GOP candidates turn to pump up their pasty crowds? We've compiled a shortlist of tunes that are the least likely to earn a cease-and-desist order.
Yes, she endorsed Ron Paul. But we doubt that Ron Paul knows what "hooking up" means, so this Kelly Clarkson hit is best utilized by the Santorum campaign to emphasize how chaste and utterly bigoted the candidate is against "hooking up" with other icky "ideas" other than his own.
Ron Paul's non-interventionalist views would ultimately leave the world without heroes. Plus, Paul would look pretty awesome painted as Peter Criss.
Mitt Romney has a habit of reminding everyone how long he's been married (wonder why?) but why waste breath when you can just let Alan Jackson say what your (robot) heart is feeling?
STILL: voters need to see that Romney is human. Or as Rupert Murdoch put it today, we still need to see his "heart and stomach." So maybe he could dedicate this Ted Nugent classic to his wife's blind trusts.
Gingrich still needs to assure voters that he's not getting head in the backseat of automobiles anymore. God bless Hank Williams, Jr. (probably keep him away from the actual events, though).
If Gingrich wants to keep pressing his message of Obama as the "food stamp president," what better way that Depression-era songwriter Harry Partch? Slip one of these CDs into an event when Gingrich is late, and the crowd will be BEGGING for someone, anyone to deliver them from misery. Even Ellis the Elephant.
Sure it's not as "dynamic" or "audible" as some of these other tunes, but if Romney fires up this epic John Cage composition, he'll have won the music grad student vote. Plus, there's no way to prove it's being played, so no lawsuits! And most audiences would prefer to hear it than a sad example of one-upsmanship in a battle he can't win.
If he loses big tonight, Gingrich will want to milk the injustice of being outspent, outmanned, and out-Mormoned in Nevada as much as possible. Think Boehner, and keep those tears flowing.
