How can someone who wants to be the “leader of the free world” get it so wrong, so often. Last week, Jackson Browne bitch-slapped John McCain for stealing his song for a TV commercial. This week, Rosanne Cash is distancing her father’s name from the Republican Party.
“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 loyalites to him that cannot possibly be determined, and to try to further their own agendas by doing so,” she says in her online blog.“I knew my father pretty well, at least better than some of those who entitle themselves to his legacy and his supposed ideals, 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”.
“It is unfair and presumptuous to use him to bolster any platform. I would ask that my father not be co-opted in this election for either side, since he is clearly not here to defend or state his own allegiance”.
After illegally using Browne’s ‘Running On Empty’ in a television commercial and infringing the copyright of the artist, McCain used the Johnny Cash classic ‘I Walk The Line’ at a rally in Florida this week.
Johnny’s daughter Rosanne is furious, especially after country singer John Rich had the hide to suggest Cash was a Republican.
"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 had the gall to state.
Rosanne wants her dad’s good name to be taken off this election ballot. She certainly doesn’t want people like John Rich and John McCain suggesting he is a supporter.
This is going to be one interesting election.
