Country Star John Rich Headed To NY-23 Because He’s Tired Of The BS
Posted on October 29, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Conservative entertainer John Rich told radio talker Steve Gill this morning that he is headed to New York State on Monday to rally voters for a conservative independent in a contentious race for congress.
Doug Hoffman’s bid against a Democrat nominee as well as Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava in New York’s 23rd congressional district has become ground zero in the war between the conservative, populist and libertarian Tea Party movement and the party elders of the GOP.
“I’m going up there to try and rally some support just in my own way just with a little music trying to get people together,” said Rich earlier this morning on WLAC. “What I hear around the country, what I hear the fans saying back to me is, to be real honest, they’re tired of the BS. They are tired of the packaging and the repackageing, the positioning and repositioning on these issues. Every time you turn on your television they are packaging it in a different way and we’re looking at it saying, ‘Yeah but it still smells the same.’”
Rich joins Fred Thompson, Sarah Palin and others in rejecting the advice of the Republican establishment ( and Newt Gingrich) and supporting Hoffman over the Republican.
Rich called out Gingrich by name in his comments this morning.
“You know, to see Newt Gingrich, who is someone I have great respect for, to come out early and endorse Scozzafazza, I was shocked by that…I was really, really taken aback that he stepped in there like that and I think it’s a really bad move for the RNC to be pouring in money on top of her campaign when they know she’s gonna lose and they know why she’s gonna lose.”
SEE ALSO:
Rich’s Gingrich comments
Rich on his trip north
Comments
32 Responses to “Country Star John Rich Headed To NY-23 Because He’s Tired Of The BS”
Good job! This should help the Democratic candidate to win.
Maybe Palin will take him on to Alaska and he’ll be out of our hair and skyline.
John Rich is a legend in his…own mind.
Uh, whoever transcribed Rich’s comments might want to use spell-check next time. That last paragraph is a disaster zone.
You are so right, Mr. Spellman.
Oh lordy, here’s your hat what’s your hurry!
Think we can get them to keep him? And take that giant coffee pot he’s building?
Does anyone actually like John Rich? I mean as a human being? His desecration of love circle made him infamous. His reputation as a jerk-about-town is well established. Talk to just about any charter bus or limo driver in town and you are sure to get a pathetic, but entertaining, John Rich story. Just stay up there.
Have fun and stay there John, you douche bag.
Love Filo
John Rich is a blight on Nashville. Please, New York, keep him.
By the way, he can’t sing for shit.
John Rich should just move out of Nashville and live in NY-23.
I always thought he kind of looked like one of the Village People.
I do. I like him. And if you don’t, that’s cool. Just send him on back to Texas where we know how to treat a Patriot.
he’s so gay. that’s why he’s repub.
Psst… headline editor: It’s “Country” not “County”
The “tea baggers’ and Rich have the same mentality.
Blue
I did not know that Rich was that intellegent.
Hmmm he has created the one of the most successful Record labels for finding new talent since Sun Records discovered Elvis, Lewis, and Cash.
WoW all the hatred from the “compassionate” liberals.
You people really have lost it.
Nice purple shirt, is he a Crip, or a Blood.
Jim.. The colors of the Crips is BLUE and the Bloods is Red…
I think the photo is from the
“Douchebag Midgets Gone Wild” collection…
If John Rich is “tired of the BS” he should just stop talking.
Maybe Palin can find him a nice remote hilltop in Alaska where he can build a monstrosity and shoot at wolves.
…John Rich is a Tea Bagger all right, I think he needs to just GO , period and never come back , what an Ass Hat.
Maybe he’ll stay there.
Leave Big Kenny, though … who’da thunk he was the one with any sense …
So what exactly is a “conservative entertainer? ”
Someone who tells golf jokes and does Dean Martin impersonations?
Also, when did the far right start flashing gang signs?
“Also, when did the far right start flashing gang signs?”
When they needed to sell their over-priced, untalented music CDs to the youngun’s.
Remember white kids are the biggest consumers of rap.
Sweet! A reverse carpetbagger. I know upstate Yankees will just LOVE that.
Let’s hope the nutjob Hoffman wins; it’ll just encourage the purity trolls for 2010 and 2012, thanks to cowboy acts like Rich.
New York is an interesting state in that more than half of the Congressional districts are in the NYC metro area. Not so the 23rd, it is a huge, mostly rural district comprising most of the northeast corner.
So ‘nutjob’ politics and carpetbagging far-right goober hat acts might actually play well up there. And I heard that Scozzafava, who was in second place with Hoffman last in the most recent poll, has dropped out.
Not saying there’s any connection to John Rich, but Hoffman was endorsed by the blog ‘Gay Patriot’. Found that along with the rest of this stuff while googling his name.
Interstingly, this is an open seat because Obama nominated the incumbent, a Republican, for Secretary of the Army.
Best place for him…
Wednesday morning will be difficult for Dem’s.
Some suggestions:
Drink a Bloody Mary. While the popular phrase “hair of the dog that bit you” may sound logical with a shot of whiskey left in the bottle next to your bed, it’s only temporary. Try a Bloody Mary instead, while your blood is dealing with the new alcohol it is ignoring the old and in the mean time tomato juice and celery are full of vitamins. If you drank the last of the vodka make a Virgin Mary. Another spicy morning after drink option is Hair of the Dog, in which gin and hot sauce are sure to bite your hangover back.
Take a shower, switching between cold and hot water.
Try Alka Seltzer Morning Relief. One reader says that it’s all that he and his wife have found that really works for them. He stumbled across this “cure” while his wife was still suffering after two days, within 15 minutes after taking the Alka Seltzer she was fine.
Get some exercise. Another reader suggests doing some sort of physical activity. He writes, “In the rare case of having hangover I usually drink about 1-2 liters of water and go outside to do some exercise like mountain climbing, swimming, cycling or just about anything that keeps me sweating.” It takes willpower to move like that when standing seems like a challenge, but it is a good theory.
As an antidote, one reader takes a little extra multi B vitamin and drinks a lot of water before going to sleep.
Most importantly, recognize that it’s over and 1994 is coming back. Give up and become a conservative. It is easier than beating yourself up.
That strategy worked really well for y’all in the Presidential election didn’t it Number 9? Chill out man and drink your own alcohol before the religious fanatics on the far right of your party try to tell you that you can’t have it anymore (again) and re-invigorate organized crime.
As for Rich, NY 23, please do give him a beautiful welcome, so that he stays and never returns to make Nashville a more terrible place.