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John Cougar Mellencamp Admires Mama Grizzly Sarah Palin

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Small town girl Sarah Palin is having her praises sung again, but this time from an actual singer: John Mellencamp. The rocker, who publicly supported Obama‘s 2008 presidential campaign, defended her intelligence, saying that people too often underestimate her “just because she says things and winks.” He added that “she’s pushing the right buttons…you can’t be stupid and do that.”

The interview comes as a surprise to many, given Mellencamp’s support for Obama, and that he asked Palin’s running mate Sen. John MCain to stop using his songs. Perhaps it exposes yet another rift between establishment Republicans like McCain and the populist Tea Party?

Politics Daily reports that while Mellencamp doesn’t quite agree with all of her positions, he thinks that “she knows exactly what she’s doing.” Read the original AP story here.

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  • Tony the Fist

    I’m sorry, John, I was lost in your forehead.

  • whytee

    He’s totally right. I find it bizarre when people call her stupid when she’s so obviously not that. She an incredibly talented and charismatic performer and has brilliant (albeit evil) strategists writing her talking points. I think in the long run she’s short-sighted because the people she’s fronting for want to transform American into a Somalia, where mama grizzlies have to watch their cubs starve because the elite control all the wealth and resources, but she’s not stupid.

  • whytee

    Also worth noting that off the coast of Somalia, big corporations from rich western countries can dump toxic and radioactive waste in the water with impunity because there’s no government to stop them. People like those Gov. Palin fronts for drool at the thought.

  • ROCKSTEADY

    Sarah Palin is far from stupied.She plays her part very well.

  • ROCKSTEADY

    Tony the Fist said:
    I’m sorry, John, I was lost in your forehead.

    HAHAHHAHA That was very funny.

  • whytee

    ROCKSTEADY said:
    Sarah Palin is far from stupied.She plays her part very well.

    “It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.” ~Thomas Paine

  • stoogedudes

    Hey, but all liberals hate anyone who doesn’t conform to their ideology, right?

    Right?

    By the way, anyone who doesn’t like “Small Town” can go back to Al Qaeda where they came from.

    Tony the Fist said:
    I’m sorry, John, I was lost in your forehead.

    Thanks. Now you made me spill my Diet Coke all over my computer screen. I cannot read something that funny and drink liquids at the same time!

  • Jackie_Treehorn

    She’s not dumb at all. She’s playing her moronic followers to the tune of $100k a speech. That’s not dumb. Baggers love it when you play stupid. Just look at her, Sharon Angle, Christine O’Donnell, Gretchen Carlson. I could go on all day.

  • Azarkhan

    “May we always be happy, and may our enemies know it.” Sarah Palin

    LOL

  • MyRefrigeratorIsRunning

    Who cares what Paulie Walnuts from “The Sopranos” has to say about Sarah Palin?

  • http://Race4Congress.com Magister

    @Ray: I really hate to be nit-picky, especially because you’re still relatively new to writing for this site, but the AP article says ‘he doesn’t support her positions”, not “doesn’t quite agree” and I’m not sure how you got to the “Little Bastard” has long been associa Democrat and I’m not sure how you got to a “rift” because the “Little Bastard” is a Democrat, whom some tried to recruit to run in the wake of Evan Bayh’s retirement as Tommy noted back in February.

    Disclosure: Though I’m not sure if I read Tommy’s original piece, when I was looking through the links produced by a quick search to footnote this comment, Tommy’s post was linked from the second one that I read.

    As for what he actually says: I’m a bit mixed on her political savvy because she has worked her way into a position of some influence, but I think that if she was serious about seeking the Republican nomination in 2012, she’s making some glaring mistakes.

  • http://Race4Congress.com Magister

    PS) I noticed back in ’08, a lot of the urban-based blogosphere and many commenters to those sites mistook his use of a Chevy commercial to market a song, as evidence of a conservative and Republican lean.

    The McCain/song issue didn’t help matters, which in addition to the fact that he was (and is) an Obama supporter, the confusion is probably another reason, he made a public stink.

  • http://Race4Congress.com Magister

    Yikes! My first paragraph was really messed-up…. See what happens when you try to correct.

    It should’ve read;

    I really hate to be nit-picky, especially because you’re still relatively new to writing for this site, but the AP article says ‘he doesn’t support her positions”, not “doesn’t quite agree” and I’m not sure how you got to a “rift” because the “Little Bastard” is a Democrat, whom some tried to recruit to run in the wake of Evan Bayh’s retirement as Tommy noted back in February.

    (Can we get an edit button or Disqus comments?)

  • notsofast

    whytee said:
    whytee says:
    October 22, 2010 at 4:07 pm whytee(Quote)
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    whytee said:
    Also worth noting that off the coast of Somalia, big corporations from rich western countries can dump toxic and radioactive waste in the water with impunity because there’s no government to stop them. People like those Gov. Palin fronts for drool at the thought.

    Your pathetic lib diatribes have worn out since Barry got in. Do us a favor and just cry the world a river of Progressive tears.

  • Jenigma

    whytee said:
    Also worth noting that off the coast of Somalia, big corporations from rich western countries can dump toxic and radioactive waste in the water with impunity because there’s no government to stop them. People like those Gov. Palin fronts for drool at the thought.

    Don’t listen to notsofast, he is made of toxic waste and thinks you just insulted his ethnic group. You really learn something about people when they have this instant defensive reaction whenever corporations are questioned. Most people I’ve met don’t really care what you say about corporations. Not as much as Homey the Clown here does. Interesting…

  • Big Dumb Ape

    Jackie_Treehorn said:
    She’s not dumb at all. She’s playing her moronic followers to the tune of $100k a speech. That’s not dumb..

    You’re right — getting people to fork over that kind of money, just to hear her talk, does show that she’s not dumb.

    In which case, I have to grudgingly admit Obama must be brilliant since he got enough morons to actually vote him into office!

  • disenlightened

    Imagine how much more like an old woman Mellancamp is going to look like in a few years. It’s like Robert Redford, who could star in a remake of the Golden Girls. I think Mellancamp just wishes he had Palin’s hair. He’s a workin’ man, John is. Him and The Boss. Thunder Road. Workin’ men. Salt of the earth, workin’ men they are. Scratch their butts, spit and plow the earth workin’ men they is.

  • CAconservative

    It doesn’t matter if he’s a Democrat, Republican, or Independent, his statements were stupid then, and are just as stupid now.

  • Alric_IV

    stoogedudes said:
    Hey, but all liberals hate anyone who doesn’t conform to their ideology, right?

    Right?

    Isn’t that how conservatives work? In Hollywood, the made lists one time, called you all sorts of names, and made it impossible for you to work. I’d say that’s pretty demanding. And these days, you’re called unpatriotic if you’re a liberal, just for disagreeing with the likes of Sarah Palin. She says it all the time. Her audience, according to her, are real Americans.

  • Nachi

    Yeah ya can! Witness RayGun & the 2 alcoholic BushDrunks.

  • shootfromthehip

    Love me some JCM.

    Unlike Sarah Palin, he’s thoughtful and he cares about the American worker.

  • whytee

    Paula said:
    Is there some better place you would suggest “big corporations from rich western countries” can “dump toxic and radioactive waste in the water with impunity “? Long Island Sound, maybe?

    Its easy to complain, but unless you have a better solution, DUMP AWAY, BOYS!!!

    I guess you missed the point. The conservatives want to reduce government. Without government, corporations become kings. Somalia has no functioning government, ergo other nations can dump toxic waste in their waters with impunity. If “conservatives” like Sarah Palin have their way, the corporations (many of which have no allegiance to or concern for America and Americans) WILL be able to dump their toxic waste in Long Island Sound. Do you understand the point now?

    In terms of a better solution, corporations which produce toxic waste reduce their costs by making regular people pay for them. If they had to absorb the costs of processing their waste, the CEOs couldn’t give themselves multi-million dollar bonuses. Stripping away regulations allows them to shift those externalities onto the people–that’s the goal of a lot of this lobbying and buying elections for “conservatives” that’s going on today. There are a lot of energy corporations that would love to see Sharon Angle elected, for example, because she will allow nuclear waste dumping in Nevada in spite of the protests of the people who will be absorbing those costs in the forms of cancers and other diseases. You see how that works? Helping “conservatives” get elected is better for the bottom line of big stateless corporations because the less government they have to deal with, the more they can shift their external costs onto the people. It’s essentially a way to buy off law enforcement for their particular kinds of crimes.

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