Rock Songs Conservatives Can Love
December 4th, 2005 at 3:02 pm by CrankyThere are a few rock songs out there which, intentionally or not, strike a resonating chord with the Conservative mind. Even though 95% of rock lyrics come from the left/idealistic/immature side of the brain, I have been a constant fan of rock music. But every once in a while, a song comes along that really surprises me by saying something that breaks with tradition.
Here are some my findings of songs that can appeal to conservatives. Please feel free to throw in any that I might have missed.
| Artist/Song | Lyric |
|---|---|
| The Kinks Catch Me Now I’m Falling |
I stood by you through all of your depressions And I lifted you when you were down Now it’s your chance to do the same for me I call your office and your secretary tells me That you’ve gone out of town
This is Captain America calling
Catch me now I’m falling
I was the one who always bailed you out |
Yep, more Carter-era malaise. This is from the 1976 Kinks album “Low Budget”. Cynical Brit, Ray Davies writes a sympathetic tune for an America down on her luck and getting no love from the World.
| Artist/Song | Lyric |
|---|---|
| The Kinks Young Conservatives |
Have you heard the word? The revolution’s over. Now the anger’s disappeared And the rebels are much older. And the schools and universities Are turning out a brand new breed of young conservatives.
Get yourself a brand new scene,
Revolution used to be cool, |
OK, I love the Kinks and these lyrics aren’t necessarily complimentary. But still. The British wryness and the upbeat tune makes it worthy of the list.
| Artist/Song | Lyric |
|---|---|
| Cracker Get Off This |
All these cats with holey jeans, Am dirty hair and titty rings, Say what your scene man, we got these questions. Is it true that you have sold your soul? I say hey man, I don’t know Lend me a quarter won’t you, I’ll call my accountant. Let’s get off this, and get on with it, Petty little Ayatollah come around to judge and stone ya |
For those of you familiar with Santa Cruz, California you I need say no more. For the rest of you. Cracker – most definitely not Conservative – is a fun band from a place that resembles Berkeley with oceanfront property. This song might have come as a result of their first taste of commerical success. Bless ‘em.
| Artist/Song | Lyric |
|---|---|
| The Eagles Get Over It |
I turn on the tube – what do I see, a whole lot a people cryin’ "don’t blame me" they point their crooked little fingers at everybody else spend all their time feelin’ sorry for themselves. Victim of this, victim of that your momma’s too thin and your daddys too fat.
…
get over it |
What can I add to this masterpiece on the “victim culture”? What could be more Conservative than an admonishment to stop whining and make something out of your life?
This post is getting to be a real space hog, so I’ll just list the rest.
Neil Young – Let’s Roll
A tribute to the passengers of Flight 93.
Camper Van Beethoven – Might Makes Right (anti-Iraq war but with only in one line. Ignore the line and the song plays like “Team America”)
Sammy Hagar – VOA
I’m embarassed to admit this one.
The Circle Jerks – When the Sh*t Hits the Fan
From the Repo Man Soundtrack. If there is such a thing as Conservative Punk, it’s on this song. e.g. “Let’s all leach off the State. Gee, the money’s really great!”
The Beatles – Tax Man
George sees the light.
The Beatles – Revolution
Deserves much more than one line in this list. If the idiots at ANSWER listened to this, they’d shut their doors forever.
UPDATE: Apparently this humble post was found by a “T Bogg” a liberal blogger I’ve never heard of before and whose minions are bent that a conservative likes rock.
Perhaps the most offensive comment – “Go back to Kenny G and Yanni.” That hurts man.
Oh and yes, I understand “Irony”. Do you understand “Literacy”?
UPDATE II: Correction. The Kinks “Low Budget” was released in 1979 not 1976.
December 5th, 2005 at 5:30 pm
I’d like to add a couple of songs to the list:
Kiss My Ass – Ted Nugent (skewers a whole host of liberals and liberal causes)
Rhymin’ Man – Frank Zappa (skewers Jesse Jackson)
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December 5th, 2005 at 11:34 pm
“Revolution” ?? Are you freaking serious? I’d roll over in my grave, but I’m laughing too hard.
December 6th, 2005 at 12:07 am
My god, man. You really are dumb as a box of rocks.
December 6th, 2005 at 12:25 am
Since I pride myself on my devotion to God, I nominate George Michael’s “Faith.”
December 6th, 2005 at 1:16 am
yeah, tbogg sent us over to look at the train wreck of a post this was.
you know, sometimes i listen to a song and realize something interesting or surpirsing about a long time after. so maybe you just heard all these songs this morning and haven’t had the proper amount of time for consideration.
but damn, MF, i ain’t never been as completely and retardedly wrong as you…. you poor, sad sack.
December 6th, 2005 at 2:04 am
I’d like to suggest any song by Billy Bragg. He’s a deeply conservative musician and he rocks!
December 6th, 2005 at 2:33 am
Gregor–
I don’t think the guy who sang “There is power in a union,” is very conservative.
Now I long for the morning that they realise
Brutality and unjust laws cannot defeat us
But who’ll defend the workers who cannot organise
When the bosses send their lackeys out to cheat us?
December 6th, 2005 at 2:53 am
“Catch Me Now I’m Falling” and “Young Conservatives.” Right.
You really don’t understand the concept of irony, do you, son?
December 6th, 2005 at 3:07 am
Uh, Yeah. The number of conservative rock songs is right up there with the number of quality conservative comedians…
Is it possible to count into negative territory?
December 6th, 2005 at 3:21 am
You all wouldn’t have any rock and your roll if you didn’t have Country And Western.
This guy here seems to not recognize that the first patriotic music (and best in my opinion) was the God Blessed C&W that I grew up on, that my folks grew up on, and that my Grandpappy grew up on.
You should recognize the piece that Country Music played in the world of rock music. If there wern’t no country, there wern’t be no rock.
December 6th, 2005 at 5:52 am
The Kinks? You’ve got to be kidding. Try “Well Respected Man” or “Where Have All the Good Times Gone”, or just about anything from their career. They’ve made a living for 40 years skewering conservatives and their mind set. You’d best stick to the idiot Nuge, or Prussian Blue, for your conservative lyrics.
December 6th, 2005 at 7:38 am
A lot of people, apparently, are coming over here to make fun of this website for being clueless, and to call the “authors” assholes.
I’m one of them. You guys suck ass.
December 6th, 2005 at 8:17 am
Sheesh. Ya think I hit a raw nerve?
I never said these artists were conservative or even that their lyrics were overtly (sorry big word) conservative. I said that these lyrics can appeal to the conservative mindset.
Don’t worry, as John Lennon spoke unto you, “Imagine”
December 6th, 2005 at 8:25 am
Well, this was truly a good laugh. Go back to listening to your Kenny G and Yanni and let the real boys rock out. And, I can’t BELIEVE you didn’t mention Saint Ronnie’s song: Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”. Oh, wait, I forgot. Bush Supporters. Won’t get it. As usual.
December 6th, 2005 at 9:56 am
no Rush ? Peart’s lyrics are just Ayn Rand screeds tweaked just enough so they’ll rhyme.
December 6th, 2005 at 10:15 am
Conservatism is as useless to the idea of rock n roll as a Hall of Fame. Doesn’t mean both won’t be forced upon it.
Nice to see some love for the Kinks.
December 6th, 2005 at 10:15 am
This is outstanding. Witness the ever-creative slings and barbs of a bunch of lefty sheep.
With commentary like this it’s no wonder you’re so easily led.
December 6th, 2005 at 11:25 am
“Capitalism” by Oingo Boingo (as in, “There’s nothing wrong with…”); a deliberate experiment in counter-counter-culture songwriting. From the album “Only a Lad,” whose title track mocks the idea that “society made” a juvenile delinquent.
Oingo Boingo loses conservative cred for mocking Dan Quayle — years after he was out of office.
December 6th, 2005 at 11:49 am
Do you understand the word “history”? Carter was elected in 1976, meaning that he took office in 1977–meaning that Ray Davies was not suffering any Carter-era malaise when he wrote the song cited above.
December 6th, 2005 at 11:59 am
You’re missing Dead Kennedy’s “Kill the Poor.” It’s got everything a modern conservative could want: a solution for poverty, a swipe at Jane Fonda, and a healthy dose of Reagan-era optimism.
Also, what about the Right Brothers’ “Bush Was Right”? That just about sums up the state of the art in “conservative rock.”
December 6th, 2005 at 12:22 pm
cleek:
no Rush ? Peart’s lyrics are just Ayn Rand screeds tweaked just enough so they’ll rhyme.
decker:
Conservatism is as useless to the idea of rock n roll as a Hall of Fame. Doesn’t mean both won’t be forced upon it.
Now this is some discourse I love. Thanks for commenting.
cleek, I completley forgot Rush.
decker, Touche. Rock is about youth and as often as not, rebellion. Neither are necessarily conservative. Unless we’re backing the rebellion (e.g. Contras)
Thanks Jimmm & Grumpy.
BiggerBill, corrected above.
CWFan, Love the lyrics but sorry, can’t get into the tunes. Every heard of Cowboy Troy? I do like him.
December 6th, 2005 at 1:59 pm
From a Esquire interview with Ray Davies:
“You know what? I never voted. People like to bracket me as a conservative, because I have written about traditional values, but I think I’m really a socialist at heart. Where I differ from a lot of socialists is that while you’ve got to change to make things better, you can still preserve and admire the culture it came from.”
December 6th, 2005 at 2:50 pm
Sooo, no one has ever heard of conservative punk ?
conservative punk
How about Alice Cooper? The Ramones?
Doobie Brothers – Jesus is Just Alright With Me
Lynard Skynard
Metallica – Don’t Tread on Me
THE MISFITS!
Sex Pistols – Bodies
Twisted Sister – We’re Not Gonna Take It
The Who’s Won’t Get Fooled Again (according to Iraq supporter, Pete Townsend, was “…an explicit repudiation of the mindless sloganeering left-wing “Viva la Revolucion!” attitudes so prominent among the 60’s generation.”
Did anyone mention Cheap Trick?
You work hard, you make money
There ain’t no on in the world who can stop you
You work hard, you went hungry
Now the taxman is out to get you
You worked hard
And slaved and slaved for years
Break your back sweat a lot
Well, it’s just not fair
He hates you, he loves money
And he’ll steal your shit and think that it’s funny
Like the Beatles he ain’t human
Now the taxman is out to get you
You worked hard
And slaved and slaved for years
You played
And you played and played for years
Taxman, Mr. Heath
He’s looking for run-in, yeah
Taxman, he’s a thief
He’s looking for run-in, yeah
Yeah, some aren’t total sheep.
Who could forget my all time favorite?
America. Fuck Yeah.
December 6th, 2005 at 2:58 pm
Oh, can’t forget Stormtroopers of Death ‘Speak English or Die’ and my favorite, ‘Fuck the Middle East’:
Fuck the middle east
There’s too many problems
They just get in the way
We sure could live without them
They hijack our planes
They raise our oil prices
We’ll kill them all and have a ball
And end their fuckin’ crisis
BEIRUT, LEBANON-Won’t exist once we’re done
LIBYA, IRAN-We’ll flush the bastards down the can
SYRIANS and SHIITES-Crush their faces with our might
Then Israel and Egypt can live in peace without these dicks
December 6th, 2005 at 3:00 pm
WTH?
December 6th, 2005 at 7:13 pm
Daverz, thanks for the Davies quote. I’m still a big fan after all these years.
dsmith, do you have any opinions?
Thanks also for the conservative punk link. Color me enlightened.
December 6th, 2005 at 8:01 pm
I’m afraid you may have to stick with Ted Nugent
From Tbogg, I found this conservative blogger who’s trying to compile a list of rock songs conservatives can love. As can be predicted, he doesn’t have much of a sense of irony, because he picks the song “Young Conservatives” by…
December 6th, 2005 at 8:06 pm
Great post, Cranky! How dare we like “thier” music!
December 6th, 2005 at 8:27 pm
Don’t I just love that first Kinks tune. Only prob is it completely rips off Jumpin Jack Flash. It really does, I still love it.
It’s all in good fun. Conservatives have worse taste in music, but we drive nicer cars and have better golf games. It’s a trade off.
December 6th, 2005 at 8:30 pm
Umm…methinks dsmith didn’t read the lyrics to “Don’t Tread on Me” very closely. Metallica is anything but conservative; listen to “Disposable Heroes” or “Leper Messiah” from Master of Puppets if “Don’t Tread on Me” isn’t convincing enough.
December 6th, 2005 at 8:31 pm
I realized that I left out the possibility that dsmith is being ironic. That could be it, as well.
December 6th, 2005 at 8:33 pm
I was going to ask why you didn’t include Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA,” but I see that Tbogg had beaten me to it.
However, why not include Springsteen’s “Downbound Train”? When the narrator gets laid off from the lumber yard, instead of going on the dole, enterprising man that he is, he gets a job at the car wash! Now that celebrates the values of capitalism and self-reliance!
December 6th, 2005 at 8:34 pm
Conservatives have worse taste in music, but we drive nicer cars and have better golf games.
Conservatives don’t golf. Republicans golf.
December 6th, 2005 at 9:43 pm
Don’t feel that bad about forgetting Rush — their famed devotion to Ayn Rand was really more of an early flirtation, often repudiated in later songs. The anti-capitalist “Big Money,” the anti-war “Distant Early Warning” (with a video that referenced “Dr. Strangelove”) and “Nobody’s Hero,” a sympathetic song about rape victims and AIDS sufferers, are more typical of their later output. By the time you get to the end of the first half of Rush’s Chronicles you get “Subdivisions,” an attack on suburbia that could have been written by Ted Rall, and they were well on their way to a left-libertarian outlook where social liberties are paramount and economic liberties are desirable but ultimately subordinate to social ones.
Even their earlier stuff doesn’t fit too well with today’s conservative movement. “Freewill” may mock people who claim to be victims, but it saves its nastiest barbs for organized religion. The only widely known Rush song that fits without discordant note is “The Trees,” with its attack on egalitarianism as a threat to the overall common good.
I suppose you could claim “Red Barchetta” as well, because stereotypically conservatives like fun impractical cars and liberals like dull fuel-efficient cars or mass transit. If you consider “I like driving really fast” a conservative value, you could probably assemble a halfway decent rock compilation, although not one that any liberal couldn’t blow the doors off with a decent record collection and thirty minutes head start.
December 6th, 2005 at 11:01 pm
When Davies talks about being a conservative, he is talking about his “We are the Village Green Preservation Society” stuff. We actually is not at odds with Socialism. So he can end up being a conservative socialist much like fellow, Brit, George Orwell. Orwell also probably liked the Village Green.
December 7th, 2005 at 12:10 am
Swing to the Right by Todd Rundgren & Utopia
Try to face the fact that I ain’t that young no more
Hair’s short again and a suit is in,
Better brush up on how to tie a Windsor knot
Swing to the right
Credit’s hard to find and a dollar doesn’t go so far
What’s more important when the count comes in
A sell-out who’s alive or a corpse that can’t be bought?
Stop the hand of time
Think I see a sign
Tables turning ’round
Hear a different sound
Stop the hands of time
Looking out for mine
Swing to the right
Don’t want to hear what the povertous expect from me
Let ‘em eat cake if they feel that way
I gotta work why should I have to pay for that?
And I don’t want to be left holding the bag for them
‘Scuze me for living but I have to say,
I’ve got some worries of my own, like staying fat
December 7th, 2005 at 2:31 am
Nice try but sorry – just don’t listen to the lyrics and you’ll be fine.
Just wrote to say it’s Neil Young not Neal Young. Very honorable man whose name should be spelled correctly.
December 7th, 2005 at 6:53 am
cminus, KevinNYC – appreciate your subject matter expertise.
Jstuddle, I think Rungren must know me.
Jill, corrected. Thanks.
December 7th, 2005 at 10:14 am
I’m glad I don’t limit my music only to artists that have similar political, social, etc. leanings that I do. If that was the case, my CD collection would be a lot smaller.
December 7th, 2005 at 11:26 am
Conservative Rock for Conservative Rock Fans?
One assumes you’d all love the brilliant and typically underrated album trilogy from The Meatmen.
Keep it rillz, meta-rebels!
December 7th, 2005 at 11:27 am
Your work is cut out for you Cranky.
Your next list should be songs for liberals. Let me nominate “Dude Looks Like A Lady”.
December 7th, 2005 at 1:42 pm
you get “Subdivisions,†an attack on suburbia that could have been written by Ted Rall
Subdivisions isn’t anti-capitalist, or anti-whatever-Ted-Rall-hates, it’s anti-conformity. and, that’s the flip side of pro-individual: see Freewill, Tom Sawyer, Anthem, 2112, etc..
Freewill†may mock people who claim to be victims, but it saves its nastiest barbs for organized religion.
Freewill is right out of the Rand songbook: “Faith, as such, is extremely detrimental to human life: it is the negation of reason,” Rand in 1964.
and, Working Man ? sure, the guy doesn’t succeed though his hard work, but he never does in country songs, either. surely a conservative can love working hard then drinking a beer. even i can love that…
Even their earlier stuff doesn’t fit too well with today’s conservative movement.
that says a lot more about today’s “conservative movement” than it does about Rush.
if Rush doesn’t count as conservative, nothing does.
December 7th, 2005 at 1:42 pm
ok. that was weird.
December 7th, 2005 at 3:15 pm
You all wouldn’t have any rock and your roll if you didn’t have Country And Western.
I don’t suppose you’ve ever heard of the blues?
December 7th, 2005 at 4:01 pm
For “conservative punk”, try The Offspring. You might not like all of their songs, but these should suit you. FWIW, the singer has almost completed a PhD in molecular biology. I assume that’s on hold until he gets fat and can’t credibly rock the stage.
From “Don’t Pick It Up”:
You’re out there makin’ bacon
No scrutiny
You mess around too much
And you got VD
You know you never think
And you’re sore today
You’re gonna take it back to California
Don’t pick it up I say
Unless you can throw it away
Don’t pick it up I say
You’re gonna be bummed that you went that way
Or “MOTA”
Mota!
Everyday, well it’s the same
That bong that’s on the table starts to call
My name
I take a hit and zone out again
I’ll be paranoid and hungry by a quarter to ten
Watching reruns on my TV
I’m laughing off my ass at Three’s Company
I don’t know if I’m understood
Buy hearing Jimmy Buffett never sounded so good
Your memory’s gone and so is your life (your life)
and “Walla Walla”
Goodbye my friend, you’ve messed up again
You’re going to prison, you’re off to the pen
You’ve gotten off easy so many times
I guess no one told you how to get a life
The judge wasn’t lenient like he was before
You got three to five and a kick out the door
The public defender really did try
Too little, too late, you didn’t get a life
Hey, in Walla
I’ll see you in a Walla Walla
Slap on the wrist? Well, not this time
Hey, in Walla
I’ll see you in a Walla Walla
Folsom prison is the destination
Hey, in Walla
I’ll see you in a Walla Walla
Slap on the wrist? Well, not this time
In the scheme of life, we’re all just brothers
Rehabilitate with all the others, Oh
Well, I’ll see ya
That car looked so tempting, so easy to drive
Just like that apartment that you burglarized
You started to run, but didn’t get far
Cause under your arm was a VCR
Hey, in Walla
I’ll see you in a Walla Walla
Slap on the wrist? Well, not this time
Hey, in Walla
I’ll see you in a Walla Walla
Folsom prison is the destination
Hey, in Walla
I’ll see you in a Walla Walla
Slap on the wrist? Well, not this time
In the scheme of life, we’re all just brothers
Rehabilitate with all the others, Oh
Well, I’ll see ya
I’m innocent
I didn’t do it
I didn’t do nothin’ man
This is bullshit
He just gave it to me, it was present
Ho ho, not this time my friend
You’ll be in lockdown by ten
I’m afraid you can’t talk your way out of this one, son
Now four walls are your 24-hour-a-day, constant companions.
Hey, in Walla
I’ll see you in a Walla Walla
Slap on the wrist? Well, not this time
Hey, in Walla
I’ll see you in a Walla Walla
Folsom prison is the destination
Hey, in Walla
I’ll see you in a Walla Walla
Slap on the wrist? Well, not this time
In the scheme of life, we’re all just brothers
Rehabilitate with all the others
Well, I’ll see ya
Have a nice life
December 7th, 2005 at 5:21 pm
Are you kidding? I love Offspring. They had me at Come Out And Play.
I saw that they had a song on a “Rock Against Bush” compilation of some sort. But whatever.
December 7th, 2005 at 9:42 pm
Cleek:
I’m not disagreeing with you about “Freewill” or “Working Man” — they’d have been okay with Barry Goldwater-era libertarian conservatives. Nowadays, though, “Barry Goldwater-era libertarian conservative” is verging on being another term for “centrist Democrat.” Remember when Goldwater argued for gays in the military, saying “you don’t need to be straight, you need to be able to shoot straight?” Remember when he suggested that Jerry Falwell needed a good kick in the ass? Remember any conservative who’s said anything similar since then?
If you wanted to argue that it’s more accurate that the conservative movement left Rush than vice versa, I’d buy that, but speaking as a polite (but liberal) guest I’d say that’s hardly a compliment to conservatives. I wish Rush-like attitudes were welcome in today’s GOP, instead of me having to vote Democratic all the time whether I like it or not.
I will disagree with you about “Subdivisions,” though. Listening to it as a teenager, it was pretty clear that it was aimed at suburban conformity, the bedrock of conservative values in America. It’s the suburbs that have no charms, while the nonconformist dreamers and misfits are drawn to the cities, strongholds of Blue America. Hell, gowing up in the small-town Midwest, “Subdivisions” played a small but real part in convincing me to take my scholarships and quit the region for urban liberal enclaves of the coast, which turned out to be a great decision. Okay, “Subdivisions” may not be anti-war or anti-capitalist, but it’s anti-suburb, which is even more distinctively liberal. A suburban or small-town nonconformist is more likely to be to the left of the prevailing attitude, not to the right. I sure was.
if Rush doesn’t count as conservative, nothing does.
I’m trying to be a polite guest and all, but, hey, you said it, I didn’t.
December 7th, 2005 at 9:49 pm
What’s the matter not a Skynyrd fan? Check out the lyrics to Sweet Home Alabama. Also you may want to look at the Drive by Truckers http://www.drivebytruckers.com/lyrics_dd.html.
Anyhow it must be tough being a conservative rock fan. We get Nirvana you get … The Eagles? U2 for us and you’re stuck with Ted Nugent. Radiohead over on the left side party and you get some unflattering but kinda conservative in a way if you don’t think too much about it Kinks tunes.
December 7th, 2005 at 10:01 pm
Hey Mike, We call U2 for ourselves. Dont ya know that Bono believes in Jeebus?
Skynyrd’s OK, but this Red Stater can live without hearing “Freebird” one more time.
December 7th, 2005 at 10:08 pm
cminus, When “Subdivisions” came out. I was pretty apolitical. In fact, I was in High School and that song was very meaningful to me on a social level.
“It’s the suburbs that have no charms, while the nonconformist dreamers and misfits are drawn to the cities, strongholds of Blue America. ”
I appreciate where you’re coming from. But you have to believe me. Conservatism isn’t all about conformity. After spending eight years in San Francisco, the counter-cultural thing for me to do was to embrace (what I considered to be) a common sense ideology.
Thanks for your thoughts.
December 8th, 2005 at 12:02 am
Yup Bono is a bona fide Christian just like the vast majority of those Americans on the left
December 8th, 2005 at 7:57 am
OK Mike, can’t we just split the difference on U2?
I mean, Bono known for left-leaning social justice (Am I bugging you? I don’t mean to bug you.) also lauds President Bush for his committment to fighting AIDS in Africa.
BTW, checked out your site. My thanks to you for serving in the USAF.
December 8th, 2005 at 12:07 pm
Not bugging me at all
. I’d give you Bono, but he’s not mine to give 
Despite what the press tells you, we on the left will praise anyone for sincere or effective efforts even if those efforts come from (queue evil music) George W. Bush. That in and of itself does not a conservative make.
But I do agree that you can enjoy U2 just as much as anyone else. You can just enjoy the beats and ignore the words of songs
Or embrace the words of the songs and join the party. 
No need for thanks for my service. Someone’s got to do it.
December 8th, 2005 at 4:31 pm
So what, you do background checks of bands before you listen to their music? >>> You conservatives really are a desperate, sad group. I guess you need to vet the band Cracker a little better. They don’t sound like your friends. C’mon over to the dark side with us, neo-cons. Well, I guess you can listen to…..well, Pat Boone? maybe. Oh wait, he re-cycled during that Osbournes show…the bastard. Oh wait, I cussed….Conservatives are good moral people, we don’t cuss….ha ha ha. Oh well, we always got Ted Nugent. Well, have fun with ol’ Teddy. I guess someone’s gotta buy his records. Nah, j/k, c’mon, why are you Conservatives? Those people like your Dear Leader don’t give a f*ck about u. All he cares about is, well, beating his wife at a game of “Life” and gaining control of Iraq, regardless of lives lost. Now THAT’S a Conservative for ya!
December 8th, 2005 at 4:51 pm
44-so being a Conservative is about going to jail for a crime? I dont’ think many people disagree with that. IF you did the crime-and as long as the punishment’s fair.
It’s also about watching 3s Company + Getting Stoned? Who knew? And yeah, I really don’t think The Offspring count as Conservatives. Here’s a review of their first album on which they had a song called “Tehran” in which Holland expresses appreciation for the Middle East. (http://www.nudeasthenews.com/reviews/917) Is that OK for Cons? Hmmm….and more recently, they’ve made strong anti-Bush statements, as noted here (http://www.straight.com/content.cfm?id=1929). But you can always go hunting with Teddy!! Oh yeah, here was that link about Cracker; I always pique when I read mention of them because their lead singer grew up in the nowheresville I spent some of my childhood. (http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1931973)
December 8th, 2005 at 6:17 pm
“Those people like your Dear Leader don’t give a f*ck about u.”
I’m sure you get daily calls from John Kerry and Teddy Kennedy, don’t ya Is This…?
Seems to me that Bush cares more about conservatives than the entire democratic party cares about democrats. But, maybe we are just harder to please.
December 8th, 2005 at 6:35 pm
Actions speak louder than words my friend. Yeah, he $ure care$ about con$ervative$. So all those poor white folks who voted for Bushie are happy with their nice tax cuts? Oh yeah, I’m sure. And if they like the War on Turrrrrr which is sending disproportionate numbers of poor minority and poor white kids to die, well, I can’t help ya.
December 9th, 2005 at 11:31 am
Ha ha ha ha. Keep searching man. Maybe you should consider some of that xtian rock? Or Happy Holidays rock, as those evil lefties insist on saying. Hey, if Creed weren’t so ridiculous I’m sure you’d have them on your list. After all, isn’t that what it means to be conservative in Amerikkka these days?
December 9th, 2005 at 2:06 pm
“Sheesh. Ya think I hit a raw nerve?
I never said these artists were conservative or even that their lyrics were overtly (sorry big word) conservative. I said that these lyrics can appeal to the conservative mindset.”
If that mindset is given to the self delusional qualities of a schizo psychopath who loves burning, bombing and burying alive brown skinned babies.
The Nazi punk rock aside, your anthologies of ‘us’ vs. ‘them’ neo-con laced lyrics belies the notion that you are horribley misguided, and that no, you really don’t get “Irony”
ps – I already have a PhD in molecular biology, my work ultimately saves babies lives (so uhh gess thut mukks meee schmmarrrt?) – and since I think you’re nuts, and therefore must be ‘oneuh them thaar bedwettin tofu guzzlin pinko leeeebrals’ I’ll just humbley trot back to my 13/7/365 day job where all my hard work and empathy can be squandered actually helping other people.
Merry Fuck You Xmas douchebag.
December 9th, 2005 at 2:28 pm
Yeah, he $ure care$ about con$ervative$. So all those poor white folks who voted for Bushie are happy with their nice tax cuts?
After all, isn’t that what it means to be conservative in Amerikkka these days?
If that mindset is given to the self delusional qualities of a schizo psychopath who loves burning, bombing and burying alive brown skinned babies.
Shee-oot you guys are aren’t even good caricatures of the worst Liberalism has to offer.
When you play these comments backwards you can hear “daddy, why don’t you love me?”
“13/7/365 day job where all my hard work and empathy can be squandered actually helping other people.”
Gee, I thought only Christians had martyrs.
Thank you aginghippieliberaldouche. Sorry, I meant Dr. aginghippieliberaldouche.
December 9th, 2005 at 2:38 pm
Well, at least that commenter’s name matches his/her personality.
At least all of the bedwetters who’ve popped in to visit haven’t been this bad.
I do worry about aginghippieliberaldouche’s medical skills since he/she has such trouble with grammar and spelling.
But since he/she only has a pHd, odds are they won’t actually be “making a difference” in a real-world capacity. More than likely he/she will be where he/she belongs… poisoning malleable minds on a community college campus somewhere.
December 9th, 2005 at 10:15 pm
What does that mean? We’re not good caricatures? We’re not caricatures. You can demean all you like but you don’t recognize that we’re real people it would appear and, well, in typical Conservative fashion, you don’t engage arguments, once again, but character destruction. You’re the Conservative searching for rock songs Conservatives can love…..a truly laughable mission if I ever heard one. Happy Holidays.
December 10th, 2005 at 9:34 am
Is This Band Really Conservative?
I owe you an apology for lumping you in with the other commenters. I reread your comments throughout the thread and you were actually contribuing something meaningful.
Cranky
December 13th, 2005 at 12:54 pm
If you wanted to argue that it’s more accurate that the conservative movement left Rush than vice versa, I’d buy that, but speaking as a polite (but liberal) guest I’d say that’s hardly a compliment to conservatives.
as the same type of guest, i’ll agree that it’s not a compliment to conservatives. and i’ll admit that it wasn’t intended as such.