Megadeth Founder Dave Mustaine: ‘Santorum Has Some Presidential Qualities’
Hat tip Hot Air, Via Music Radar, an interview with Dave Mustaine, formerly of Metallica, and now the leader of Megadeth:
Speaking of news, you were a correspondent for MTV during the 1992 presidential election. What’s your take on US politics in 2012?
“I’m just hoping that whatever is in the White House next year is a Republican. I can’t bear to watch what’s happened to our great country. Everybody’s got their head in the sand. Everybody in the industry is like, ‘Oh, Obama’s doing such a great job…’ I don’t think so. Not from what I see.
“Looking at the Republican candidates, I’ve got to tell you, I was floored the other day to see that Mitt Romney’s five boys have a $100 million trust fund. Where does a guy make that much money? So there’s some questions there. And watching Newt Gingrich, I was pretty excited for a while, but now he’s just gone back to being that person that everybody said he was – that angry little man. I still like him, but I don’t think I’d vote for him.
“Ron Paul… you know, I heard somebody say he was like insecticide – 98 percent of it’s inert gases, but it’s the two percent that’s left that will kill you. What that means is that he’ll make total sense for a while, and then he’ll say something so way out that it negates everything else. I like the guy because he knows how to excite the youth of America and fill them in on some things. But when he says that we’re like the Taliban… I’m sorry, Congressman Paul, but I’m nothing like the Taliban.
“Earlier in the election, I was completely oblivious as to who Rick Santorum was, but when the dude went home to be with his daughter when she was sick, that was very commendable. Also, just watching how he hasn’t gotten into doing these horrible, horrible attack ads like Mitt Romney’s done against Newt Gingrich, and then the volume at which Newt has gone back at Romney… You know, I think Santorum has some presidential qualities, and I’m hoping that if it does come down to it, we’ll see a Republican in the White House… and that it’s Rick Santorum.”
Is there a Heavy Metal Social Conservative Voting Bloc somewhere out there in America? If so do please speak up in the comments section.
F*ck Ya!
From gun totin’ PA too!
Two paws up!
Hear Hear!
Whodathunkit … a metalhead with a coherent, funny (98% inert gases!) assessment of the candidates. Agree or disagree, he makes more sense than a lot of people who cover politics for a living.
Not all who listen to metal or rock are liberal meat puppets.
Heavy rockers Ted Nugent and Alice Cooper are Republicans.
BTW, Israel doesnt get a lot of big acts. Megadeath is playing there this year.
Mustaine “clarifies his statement.”
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/dave-mustaine-im-not-ready-to-endorse-rick-santorum-20120216?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
Please Santorum, go for the real truth, forget the lies.
The Netherlands is a civilised country, where killing elderly as he suggests, is totally illegal. In fact, the death penalty is illegal, even in the army.
What the elderly fear is re-animation, as the caretakers will always try to keep somebody alive. And the elderly fear that they will wake up as a vegetable.
If this is the level of knowledge of a future president and his advisors, please stop with Santorum.
And find someone better!