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Why Not Senator Kid Rock?
The membership of the United States Senate currently includes Al Franken (see photo inset). Additionally, this august body includes Senator Dick Blumenthal, who lied about his Vietnam military service (he had none) and that he was captain of the swim team at Harvard. He wasn’t. Also, there’s Senator Elizabeth Warren who lied about being an American Indian in order to advance her career. It also includes Senator Kamala Harris who started her political career by getting appointed to high-paying boards by her boyfriend, California Assembly Speaker and San Francisco mayor Willie Brown. And then there’s Senator Patty Murray, who praised Osama Bin Laden for building day care centers and whose college major was … I am not making this up… “recreation.”
And previous senators included Ted Kennedy, elected six times by the people of Massachusets after leaving a woman to drown in his Oldsmobile after drunk-driving off a bridge. Senator Kennedy also notoriously made a “waitress sandwich” with another Senator – Chris Dodd of Connecticut, who was subsequently drummed out of the senate for being on the take with Countrywide mortgage.
Don’t forget Harry Reid, who amassed an enormous personal wealth of untold millions of dollars through his connections to the mafia, while hardly working a day of his life in the private sector. Harry also praised then-Senator President Barack Obama for not having a “negro accent.”
Also, oh yeah, speaking of racism, what about actual former Ku Klux Klansman, Robert Byrd, who was an elected member of the United States Senate for over half a century?
So, why not Senator Robert “Kid Rock” Ritchie?
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And if being in office affords Kid Rock less time to sing, the dignity of the Senate will be a small price to pay.
I am just happy that the Republican Party is the party of christian conservatives, and a man who had a notorious rap feud over a purloined glass female sexual aide, and a billionaire playboy/dilettante who genuinely appears to empathize with the manual laborers who made him fabulously wealthy.
While the other guys are a bunch of freaks and weirdos.
I only take issue with calling what he does “singing.” Otherwise, concur.
We’re a big tent. Mercifully with partitions and low lighting.
For the record it’s Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops Senator Byrd.
It’s not all rap and crap.
I will not support him unless he pledges to wear the hat on the Senate floor. If he does so, he gets a check.
If he meets constitutional requirements, then he’s as qualified as anyone.
If I lived in Michigan, I would gladly vote for Kid Rock.
It would also appear a certain Senator from Vermont has been stealing his neighbor’s newspaper.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/18941/true-socialist-apparently-bernie-sanders-stealing-amanda-prestigiacomo
IMHO, based on the content and links in the OP, if Kid Rock wins and continues to sing, the dignity of the Senate would actually INCREASE.
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Isn’t that completely in line with his political philosophy? He’s just living in accordance with his principles.
I live in Michigan and haven’t had a Senator represent my views in years. The Kid has some baggage (well, lots), but he’s a far-sight better than the two Dem machine clones we have in there now. In fact the stapler sitting on my desk right now would make a better Senator than either of the two I have currently.
He would get my vote in a heartbeat, but I’m doubtful he’ll go through with it – lots of work, long days, have to wear grown-up clothes, just not seeing this..
Given the picture of Senator Franken in the OP, I think that “grown up clothes”are optional, to say the least.
Well, I would hope us Michiganders would hold ourselves up to a higher standard than the folks in Minnesota. I can’t see us electing a man who wore diapers as a prop for comedy.
From the article about Comrade Bernie:
That takes some (lack of) effort.
Indeed. As I have said, depending on who is in the primary, I might even vote for him twice.
I watched that whole thing and didn’t see one lion. What gives?
Harry Reid has also never denied being the Searchlight Strangler. Quite a list of deplorables you’ve collected.
I live in Michigan and aside from Spencer Abraham have had Democrat Senators my entire adult life. I looked at Kid Rock’s Wiki profile, and he seems more stable and respectable than Trump. He hasn’t anymore scandals than Stabenow, who’s husband was caught with a hooker in Troy. Not only would I vote for him, but might just put a sign in my yard.
Wait, there are hookers here in Troy?
And remember Senator Abraham’s predecessor? Don Riegle? He endorsed Bernie Sanders last year.
He’s a cowboy, baby…
He’s not from Vermont. He’s just been mooching off everybody there for several decades. Why? Because Vermont is moocher-friendly.
Or that a villian in the mob movie casino is literally based on him.
I also forgot that Senator Al Franken once said he was happy to see gay people get murdered.
I know, hookers in Troy and it was right down the road from where I lived as a child. She did do the decent thing and divorced him. Unless Kid Rock is really a CIA guy having sex with spies, as much of a prude as I am, I don’t care. We are getting it up the tailpipe by politicians and it effects my life more.
The Senate is dignified? When did that become A Thing?