Kid Rock Eyed as Potential Senate Candidate

[CaseyJones]

http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/kid-rock-eyed-as-potential-senate-candidate

A surprising name has been thrown out as a potential Republican contender for Michigan Democrat Debbie Stabenow’s Senate seat next year: Kid Rock.

The rocker’s name came up as a possible candidate at a Michigan Republican Party convention last weekend. There have been no official decisions announced as of yet.

Kid Rock, whose real name is Robert Ritchie, once said he tended to vote Republican but qualified himself as “more libertarian” to Rolling Stone in 2013. But he has supported several major Republican candidates.

The Michigan native threw his support behind Mitt Romney in 2012 and supported Ben Carson in the 2016 presidential election. He later switched to Donald Trump as he became the party’s nominee.

Rock — or Ritchie — even started to sell pro-Trump merchandise in his official online store including t-shirts with the phrase “God, Guns & Trump” in red, white and blue-colored text.

Stabenow has been in office since 2000 and Inside Elections With Nathan L. Gonzales rates the race Solid Democrat, but Republicans feel more confident after Trump’s win there in 2016 — the first GOP presidential candidate to win there since 1988.

 

[CPUd]

That would be awesome

 

[Zippyjuan]

http://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...ey-mcdaniel-gop-michigan-convention/97785574/

People tossing out names of who they might like to see run. Rock has not expressed any interest so far in running for anything.

There are no announced candidates to challenge U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow in 2018, but names dropped at Saturday's Michigan Republican Party state convention at the Lansing Center ran the gamut from a congressman to a former state senator to Michigan-born recording artist Kid Rock.

Wes Nakagiri, a Livingston County Tea Party activist who was elected to the party's central committee Friday night, said Kid Rock, who endorsed President Donald Trump, "has name I.D., is an out-of-the-box idea, and would kind of get rid of that stodgy Republican image."

The Trump candidacy could be "a template" for a Kid Rock candidacy, and "I'll bet you he would generate as much excitement as Trump did," Nakagiri told the Free Press.

Reaction among Republicans to a proposed Kid Rock candidacy wasn't quite "Only God Knows Why" — a 1998 Kid Rock hit. But many are looking at more conventional candidates and expect more names to surface than those currently in the mix.

 

[William Tell]

Why the hell not?

 

[Matt Collins]

The best thing to ever come from Michigan!

 

[Anti Federalist]

 

[navy-vet]

The best thing to ever come from Michigan!

amen

 

[oyarde]

The best thing to ever come from Michigan!

Chief Pontiac would take offense to that if he was here .

 

[Zippyjuan]

 

[oyarde]

Well , one thing , he would certainly have a better understanding of economics than any Michigan Dem .

 

[CPUd]

Kid Rock is a big advocate for platinum

 

[oyarde]

Any PM is better than paper .

 

[oyarde]

If Pontiac's 300 had just been able to take Ft Detroit and destroy it in 1763 maybe there would not be so many liberals in Michigan today .....

 

[EBounding]

There's Ted Nugent
https://www.facebook.com/tednugent/posts/10154440586287297:0

If these GOP sonsabitches dont get it right this time I will come charging in as the ultimate WE THE PISSED OFF PEOPLE Mr FixIt Consitutional firebreathing shitkicker candidate from hell!

 

[RandallFan]

That isn't a bad move by Nugent. Just fuark with the GOP establishment. Pick this unwinnable Senate race or some useless swing district (who cares about giving Paul Ryan 240 or 241 votes) and just attack the Establicuck loverboy.

Kid Rock & Creed Frontman:

"He's like: 'What's going on here?' And I'm like: 'Whaddya mean, what's going on here?' And he asked if I minded if he got in on it.

"I'm like: 'Nah, of course I don't mind, man. Come in, take your pants off. Have a beer.' And then I'm like: 'Aren't you in a religious band?' But I was just trying to be a friend to him. He just seemed a little lost. I just figured if he hung around with a big dog he wouldn't piss like a puppy.
"I think I said to him: 'What's with the camera?' And you just know that thing's coming out one day. The thing is, if it did - and it almost did - I'd be a fucking hero; it would ruin his career."

 

[KrokHead]

What's with shitty celebrities being Republican?

 

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

Rock has not expressed any interest so far in running for anything.

The article did not say that.

 

[jmdrake]

Why the hell not?

Because last time I checked he was a war loving neocon?

 

[jmdrake]

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[Todd]

What's with shitty celebrities being Republican?

Fixed.