Let’s give Kathleen Parker credit for not badgering rock star Gene Simmons with, “Yeah, but aren’t I as awesome and chic and cute as Sarah Palin is stupid?” Such restraint on the part of someone so “unqualified” to co-host a television show next to a guy smarter than she is, who runs circles around her, is admirable. Parker’s sucking up to the left under the mistaken belief they wouldn’t smell weakness and abuse it for every partisan advantage is a “naive” mistake Sarah Palin never made — you know, the Sarah Palin with the successful TV show and bright future.
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It’s interesting that Gene Simmons pretty much admits he voted for Obama out of white guilt. It’s also very intelligent politics on his part, a way to say to others who made the same terrible mistake, Hey, we tried to do the right thing for the right reasons and look where it got us. But we can fix it in 2012! The Kiss bassist also makes a simple (in a good way) but articulate case against against Obama’s ever-expanding government. If our presidential candidate is half as capable of making the same case against Obama in 2012, we should be in pretty good shape.
As far as Simmons’ belief that musicians should stay out of the business of politics in their music… Does this mean “Love Gun” isn’t a a pro-Second Amendment song?
No place for hidin’ baby
No place to run
You pull the trigger of my
Love gun, (love gun), love gun
Love gun, (love gun), love gun
What am I missing?
Simmons and Ted Nugent represent real rock n’ roll, which, at its core, is about freedom. Just leave me alone to do my thing. Those of us who are more socially conservative might not be personally comfortable with what that particular thing might be, but Kiss never lobbied to raise my taxes and Aerosmith never argued for my health care to be taken away. But that bastard Springsteen sure has. He’s “The Man” now, living in his mansion on the hill and telling the rest of us how to live our lives – a real moral scold protecting the status quo.
Sometimes I wonder if this isn’t why the music business is so stillborn now, with so few major artists and acts breaking through in a big way. The biggest tours each year are usually artists and bands old enough to be grandparents.
Is this simply nostalgia or is it due to the fact that the liberating spirit of a rock n’ roll, of Ted Nugent and Gene Simmons, hasn’t been passed on to the next generation of musicians?
Nugent/Simmons 2012! — Simmons/Nugent 2012! — Anyone But Obama 2012!
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