Kid Rock Senate run - what chances?

Damn straight. They need to be reminded who they work for.

 

Amen and we'll said. Serve a few years get out and rock n roll. These career politicians are raping us dry. Ridiculous.

 

I kind of messed up that post, but you know what I'm saying!

 

I wonder if they going to tell k rock that he is bad for grabbing coochie.

 

Oh, I'm sure they would bring up some of the lyrics to some of his songs. All of the sudden, they will turn into a bunch of old prudes.

 

And forget their hero for the past 8 years and the hoodlums he brought in the White House.

 

I smelled what your cooking.

 

They are already the old prudes.

 

Depends upon what his tactic and platform is. If he is looking to capitalize upon Trump's successful presidential run by tying himself to Trump, then he may need to rethink his strategy as currently riding Trump's shirttail is perhaps not the best tactic. But if the district he runs in has very high support for Trump he may do well. For his sake I hope the Kid has done his homework. If anything Kid Rock running should be interesting if not entertaining.

 

Kind of reminds me of 2015:
The Republican party is so weak right now, that Donald Trump just might win.

Righties are worried.

 

In 2015 I was hoping for someone like Trump.

See, I know what unopposed leftism gets you.

Im like season 10 of game of lefties.

You are season 1, episode 1 of Full House.

 

Not that I know of. But one thing is for certain. He wont be running as a Democrat.


It’s Probably Not a Good Idea to Underestimate Kid Rock......

On the surface, Kid Rock running for Senate against Debbie Stabenow in 2018 looks like a fool’s errand, and it doesn’t get much better beneath the surface. Stabenow, the senior senator from Michigan, holds the advantage of incumbency: She won her office during the 2000 elections and has held it ever since. After eking out a win in 2000, Stabenow was reelected in 2006 and 2012 by comfortable margins of 15 and 20 percent, respectively. Midterm elections all but always swing toward the party that doesn’t hold the presidency, and Stabenow’s Democratic party will not hold the presidency in 2018. Furthermore, the man who currently is president seems to be particularly well-suited to mobilizing voters against him, as various special elections this year across the nation have demonstrated. Donald Trump is a very unpopular president, and it’s all but guaranteed that Kid Rock, who has gone out of his way to align himself with Trump, will be fighting an uphill battle.

Then again, the very fact that Trump is president at all shows that holding the high ground, though nice, is hardly an insurmountable advantage. Kid Rock is a long shot, but that hardly means he has no shot. As with Trump, name recognition goes a long way. Hundreds of millions of people know who Kid Rock is, and millions of them are Michigan residents eligible and willing to vote for him. As with Trump, an unknown but significant bloc of voters is open to voting for a celebrity who represents himself as bucking the system. However one defines it, the system is in terrible shape, and it’s Trump’s system, but scapegoats for failure still abound, and Congressional Democrats have an approval rating even lower than Trump’s. Kid Rock’s lack of political experience is a selling point no less than a demerit, and his absence of a prior record in office shouldn’t conceal the fact that, as a diamond-selling pop musician, he has a gift for crafting punchy slogans and keeping an audience in thrall. Though he’s fallen from the prominence he commanded in the Y2K period, he still maintains a loyal fan base that’s kept him comfortably afloat in an industry facing dire times.

As New York’s own Ed Kilgore accurately notes, Rock’s libertarian rhetoric of simplifying law codes, tax codes, and health care has an uncommonly high hat/cattle ratio. But simple messages, delivered frequently and repeated with enthusiasm, help win elections far more than fact-checking and bet-hedging. The Michigan Senate election is Stabenow’s to lose, but if she and her party fail to offer clear policy prescriptions (Medicare for all being an obvious example) of their own, it’s possible, if not quite plausible, that she could lose it.

Of course, a lot of other things would have to happen to bring Rock into striking distance, but nothing is certain, and the impossible has become a regular occurrence......snip~

http://www.vulture.com/2017/07/in-trumps-america-a-kid-rock-political-career-is-possible.html

 

And misreadings of Trumpian campaigning, if the responses to Rock’s campaign announcement are any indicator, seem likely to outlive Trump as well. Whatever Kid Rock’s vote total (assuming he clears the Republican primary) in the general election may be in 2018, the bulk of it will come not from the trailer parks Rock habitually plays to in his music videos and lyrics, but from the reputable suburbs which form the cornerstone of Republican power before and after Trump’s campaign — suburbs to which, incidentally, Rock is native. For all of Rock’s dirtbag posturing, the artist himself was raised in an affluent household of precisely the sort most likely to benefit from the libertarianism he’s currently campaigning on and least likely to suffer from the bellicose nationalism he’s always professed......snip~ Same link.

 

It all depends on who is running against him. Remember, Jesse Ventura won a statewide election.

 

Politico on Kid Rock's Possible US Senate Bid: He's Got a Shot....


When Kid Rock first announced he planned to run for Senate in 2018, most people thought it was either a joke or a publicity stunt for the two new singles he released from his upcoming album. But Bobby Ritchie seems dead serious about it—and a report in Politico lays out the case for why he’s got a real shot.

Sure, the rock star is “an opposition researcher’s dream come true” Politico Magazine notes, given his provocative lyrics, drug use, drinking, sexual promiscuity, and run-ins with the law. But to dismiss him completely would be a “huge miscalculation” and prove the left learned no lessons from the 2016 presidential election.

The magazine also declares “his path to the U.S. Senate is far easier than Trump’s was to the White House” given the president was up against 16 opponents, most of whom were well-known and well-financed. Ritchie would only face a field of three little known candidates.

“Presuming Kid Rock doesn’t get caught in bed with a little boy, or beat up a woman between now and August 2018, he’s going to win the nomination if he gets in,” Dennis Lennox, a Republican political consultant in Michigan, told Politico. “I think there’s no question about that. I think he’s the prohibitive favorite if he gets in.”

The challenges he’d face are plenty, however—not least of which would be defeating a popular incumbent, Sen. Debbie Stabenow.

Still, the possibility shouldn’t be dismissed.....snip~

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2017/07/25/politico-kid-rock-has-a-shot-n2358966


Well now Politico says don't count him out. The Repubs are just as worried, huh?

 

The Politico article merely states the OBVIOUS.

If Ritchie gets in, he should get the GOP nom.

Stabenow will win, but Ritchie will make what would've been a boring race a lot of fun.

 

The Delphi Analytica poll puts support for the Trump-supporting Michigan-native entertainer at 30 percent, four points ahead of incumbent Democrat Debbie Stabenow. Forty-four percent of respondents declined to a pick a candidate. Among those who did state a preference, Kid Rock led 54-46 percent.

 

Everybody sees the potential to unseat Dems in 2018. The party is in ruins, and Perez is at the helm. The vultures are already begining to circle the corpse.

 

And they are falling behind in debt. Just not bringing in that money.

 

Kamala is going after Clinton donors, money isn't the DNC's biggest problem. They just can't buy elections the way they used to. Ossoff is a prime example.

 

I think Kid Rock's private life is a bit too wild & crazy to be a GOP senator---maybe okay for a DEM senator.
He's only been married briefly to Pamela Anderson back 10 years ago.

 

Do you think "moral majority" personal life rules still apply to the GOP?

Have you heard of Donald Trump?

 

... holy ****ing ****! Really?

 

He should like the good news.....but he still hasn't filed papers or Officially declared he is in.

 

Trump at least tries to stay married for awhile. Personal lifestyle isn't as important for folks these days, but Kid Rock's lifestyle may be too much to handle.