Tampa Calling

John Rich, half of the cornball country duo Big & Rich (”Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy”), has decided to campaign for John McCain. I cringe at the thought of the White House being occupied by another fear-and-war-mongering WASP who is hopelessly out of touch with the middle class, and anyone too young for an AARP card.

But if that’s your man, fine.

Some of my best friends are Republicans. But country clown John Rich crossed the line when he told McCain supporters that the Man in Black was on their side.

Fortunately, Roseanne Cash quickly and eloquently defended her deceased father’s right not to be pulled into a political campaign posthumously.  Because, really, that’s just wrong. Right up there with singing a song as utterly retarded as “Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy).”

From Billboard.com:

“It is appalling to me that people still want to invoke my father’s name, five years after his death, to ascribe beliefs, ideals, values and loyalties to him that cannot possibly be determined, and to try to further their own agendas by doing so,” Cash said in a statement on her Web site.

The statement was released after country star John Rich invoked the name of Johnny Cash at a recent Florida rally for presidential candidate John McCain. According to media reports, Rich told the crowd, “Somebody’s got to walk the line in the country. They’ve got to walk it unapologetically. And I’m sure Johnny Cash would have been a John McCain supporter if he was still around.”

Rich then sang Johnny Cash’s “I Walk the Line.”

“I knew my father pretty well, at least better than some of those who entitle themselves to his legacy and his supposed ideals,” Rosanne Cash said in the statement, “and even I would not presume to say publicly what I ‘know’ he thought or felt. This is especially dangerous in the case of political affiliation.

John Rich, you’re an idiot.

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