Rockers Against Bush - Treason?

bwhip · 09-03-2004, 10:12 AM

Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, James Taylor and others are going to be touring in various swing-vote regions in the coming months to rally the faithful against George W. Bush.

Old-school rocker Alice Cooper disagrees with the tactic:

"To me, that´s treason," Cooper told the Winnipeg (Canada) Free Press. " I call it treason against rock ´n´ roll, because rock is the antithesis of politic. Rock should never be in bed with politics."

[Cooper is a diehard Republican who hangs around with Sen. John McCain at Phoenix Suns games.]

"If you´re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you´re a bigger moron than they are," Cooper ranted. "Why are we rock stars? Because we´re morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal."

"Besides," Cooper continued, "when I read the list of people who are supporting Kerry, if I wasn´t already a Bush supporter, I would have immediately switched. Linda Ronstadt? Don Henley? Geez, that´s a good reason right there to vote for Bush."

I love it! No more Mr. Nice Guy!

Bacchus · 09-03-2004, 10:58 AM

roadrunner954 · 09-03-2004, 11:06 AM

"Besides," Cooper continued, "when I read the list of people who are supporting Kerry, if I wasn´t already a Bush supporter, I would have immediately switched. Linda Ronstadt? Don Henley? Geez, that´s a good reason right there to vote for Bush."

True, very true

Baketech · 09-03-2004, 11:41 AM

Don Henley is one talented mofo....but he can suckle my nutsack if he thinks I give one damn bit about his politics....

"Beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man that we've elected king...."

Could he have been more wrong in his analysis here....

figment · 09-03-2004, 12:21 PM

I like the guy

BDA116 · 09-03-2004, 12:24 PM

Speaking of Alice, have you guys seen that commercial with him school shopping for his daughter? Pretty funny.
Although, technically his daughter was right.

luvtolean · 09-03-2004, 12:40 PM

Cooper cracks me up.

deez · 09-03-2004, 12:57 PM

Then why even listen to anything Cooper has to say either

Bush is a criminal, if he was a Demo, he would have been impeached by now. Kerry isn't all that, but anything is better than Dubya.

luvtolean · 09-03-2004, 1:22 PM

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Originally Posted by booth23

Then why even listen to anything Cooper has to say either

I'm pretty sure that's what he said.

"If you´re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you´re a bigger moron than they are," Cooper ranted. "Why are we rock stars? Because we´re morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal."

luvtolean · 09-03-2004, 1:34 PM

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Originally Posted by booth23

Bush is a criminal, if he was a Demo, he would have been impeached by now. Kerry isn't all that, but anything is better than Dubya.

You honestly think that Bush has done something that would allow him to be impeached, but the Dems are above that and haven't done it?!!! No way dude, the dems would give their left nut to impeach the man, but there's a problem he's not done anything impeachable! You know, like perjuring yourself as did a certain recent president...

deez · 09-03-2004, 1:36 PM

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Originally Posted by luvtolean

I'm pretty sure that's what he said.

"If you´re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you´re a bigger moron than they are," Cooper ranted. "Why are we rock stars? Because we´re morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal."

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Rock should never be in bed with politics

But they should hang around with McCain at games

deez · 09-03-2004, 1:38 PM

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Originally Posted by luvtolean

You honestly think that Bush has done something that would allow him to be impeached, but the Dems are above that and haven't done it?!!! No way dude, the dems would give their left nut to impeach the man, but there's a problem he's not done anything impeachable! You know, like perjuring yourself as did a certain recent president...

Well the last guy stuck his dick in some girl's mouth, and lied about it. This president lied too but about much bigger things. He can blame his 'information' if he wants. What is worse, screwing an intern,or screwing the country?

BDA116 · 09-03-2004, 1:39 PM

Bush has done nothing criminal, kerry has done multiple things criminal. In fact, by his own admission and testimony, he should be tried as a war criminal in the world court.
Kerry is a felon, and an international criminal. The waste of sperm shouldn't be holding any office, but because he's a dem, he gets a free pass on everything.

luvtolean · 09-03-2004, 1:41 PM

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Originally Posted by booth23

Well the last guy stuck his dick in some girl's mouth, and lied about it. This president lied too but about much bigger things. He can blame his 'information' if he wants. What is worse, screwing an intern,or screwing the country?

No he hasn't lied about anything. It's very simple. If he had, he'd be drug out and tried for it.

I don't care what Clinton lied about, the man lied under oath to the Supreme Court. That is completely inexcusable. He is the man that chooses the judges and the leader of the democratic system which relies on due process of law. And he refused to submit to that system.

I don't like Bush hiding behind the (spitting the words) Patriot Act but I honestly don't think he's lied.

Baketech · 09-03-2004, 2:27 PM

Last week Kerry said he would have made the same decision on Iraq....last night he said Bush misled....

That guy has more twists than Gumby....

deez · 09-03-2004, 3:11 PM

I know BDA hates Nader, but do the rest of you view him as a better choice than these two?

figment · 09-03-2004, 3:26 PM

three minor injuries in 4 months...three purple hearts

I know people who got hurt worse in a single sqirmish and never got a single purple heart.

Yea, John, you're "some" kind of hero...
Hanoi John?

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Mr. Kerry's anti-war agitation after returning from Vietnam, however, is unambiguous. As a leader of the Jane Fonda-funded VVAW, Mr. Kerry insisted U.S. soldiers were guilty of widespread atrocities and war crimes. Testifying on national television before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations committee in April, 1971, about "the absolute horror of what this country ... made them do," he claimed soldiers he knew had "personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power...razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan...poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam." He called American actions in Vietnam "the height of criminal hypocrisy." Even before he decided to run for president, veterans of the North Vietnamese prison camps reported that Mr. Kerry's Senate testimony was used by their captors to demoralize them and that they were tortured into signing confessions that they knew Mr. Kerry's remarks to be true.

CBRVFR · 09-03-2004, 3:38 PM

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Originally Posted by booth23

I know BDA hates Nader, but do the rest of you view him as a better choice than these two?

Not if you want to own a vehicle with an internal combustion engine...

Baketech · 09-03-2004, 3:45 PM

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Originally Posted by CBRVFR

Not if you want to own a vehicle with an internal combustion engine...

Won't need them for very long....the Kerry/Edwards team is going to eliminate the need for them in just 10 short years, creating "millions" of jobs in the process...

ER · 09-03-2004, 4:56 PM

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Originally Posted by booth23

I know BDA hates Nader, but do the rest of you view him as a better choice than these two?

No, because he's just as radical as Kerry.

Honestly brother, do you think that Kerry's "free health care for everyone" and "tax the rich" policies will help or hurt this country? What Bush is guilty of is spending like a Liberal. There's no doubt about that. For whatever reason, he's abandoned the traditional Conservative post of smaller Government and is spending freely. That's bad. Kerry wants to grow the Government even faster but his spending will revolve around social programs designed to bring more people into Government dependency. Furthermore, he wants the UN to decide whether or not we should respond militarily to a particular threat. Will that help or hurt us?

luvtolean · 09-03-2004, 5:03 PM

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Originally Posted by CBRVFR

Not if you want to own a vehicle with an internal combustion engine...

Yeah. I want someone with an energy policy between Bush's and Nader's. Carter was able to create an oil glut (with the prompting of OPEC of course), and it'd be nice to see another pres take this seriously before we come into the same situation again.

I won't include Kerry, he'll just say he won't do what Bush is.

luvtolean · 09-03-2004, 5:06 PM

My 2 main complaints with Bush are:

1) Using the war to push a social agenda aka the Patriot Act. That just sucks.

2) Cutting taxes while increasing spending running a defecit. Liberals want to increase taxes and spending. I want to see the taxes cut along with services. But since everyone in this country seems to think the government owes them something...

I don't think the government should borrow money for anything but infrastructure (under which I include education) and threat of foreign invasion. And when I say that I mean, somebody is clearly putting together a force to take us on.

deez · 09-03-2004, 5:09 PM

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Originally Posted by ER

No, because he's just as radical as Kerry.

Honestly brother, do you think that Kerry's "free health care for everyone" and "tax the rich" policies will help or hurt this country? What Bush is guilty of is spending like a Liberal. There's no doubt about that. For whatever reason, he's abandoned the traditional Conservative post of smaller Government and is spending freely. That's bad. Kerry wants to grow the Government even faster but his spending will revolve around social programs designed to bring more people into Government dependency. Furthermore, he wants the UN to decide whether or not we should respond militarily to a particular threat. Will that help or hurt us?

Good points ER. The more I hear about Kerry, the more I don't like actually, but I'm still going to vote for him (not like I really need to in this state, we all know how this state will go) because I dislike the current guy that much.

In all honesty, I don't like either candidate, I think they are both schmucks.

Edit: His war record, I'm tired of hearing about it. Whatever happened, he was there at least. Same can't be said about the other guy.