Little Pink Houses

Apparently McCain's shindigs have recently featured Mellencamp songs and Mellencamp is none too pleased with the situation so he asked McCain to stop.  After all, Mellencamp was an Edwards man, so I'm not sure what part of Mellencamp's farmy populism McCain thought jibed with his message.  Come to think of it, I can't think of any song that would jibe with his message.  Maybe some Tom Petty.  Oh, bummer.

Picking songs for Republican campaign events must be one hard job.  You want something that will appeal to people, but you also want something that fits your message.  That's pretty hard to find.  You can't even count on Toby Keith anymore.  And it turns out that nobody writes songs about small government and keeping the minimum wage down.

What's a Republican candidate to do?  I guess you could play in your own band, but that's not for everybody.  Personally, I vote for awkward silence.  Instead of uplifting music that gets the crowd excited, there is a big nothing.  I can see the forced grins on the faces of these strangers as they slowly shift their weight from foot to foot and bleat out half sentences before thinking better of the situation and check themselves.  Then perfect stillness.  What do you have to lose, Republicans?  It's not like John Cage is going to come after you or anything.