# If rockers were running for POTUS, who would get your vote? The Boss or Kid Rock?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-rockers-were-running-for-potus-who-would-get-your-vote-the-boss-or-kid-rock/639976
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 5, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-rockers-were-running-for-potus-who-would-get-your-vote-the-boss-or-kid-rock/639976 "2012-11-05T17:44:44Z")
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### Author:  [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-rockers-were-running-for-potus-who-would-get-your-vote-the-boss-or-kid-rock/639976/1 "2012-11-05T17:44:44Z")
As the title asks?
Poll coming.
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### Author:  [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-rockers-were-running-for-potus-who-would-get-your-vote-the-boss-or-kid-rock/639976/2 "2012-11-05T17:46:50Z")
The Boss. At least he has the maturity (and has had for a long time) and thoughtfulness to do the job.
Kid Rock rhymes ‘things’ with ‘things’, for chrissake. He’s not the pinnacle of intellectualism.
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### Author:  [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-rockers-were-running-for-potus-who-would-get-your-vote-the-boss-or-kid-rock/639976/3 "2012-11-05T18:54:54Z")
Neither.
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### Author:  [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-rockers-were-running-for-potus-who-would-get-your-vote-the-boss-or-kid-rock/639976/4 "2012-11-05T18:55:18Z")
I hate KR, so it’s Springsteen by default
Although I’d probably have a write in vote for Vincent Furnier (Alice Cooper) instead
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-rockers-were-running-for-potus-who-would-get-your-vote-the-boss-or-kid-rock/639976/5 "2012-11-05T19:09:06Z")
Bruuuuuuuuce!
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### Author:  [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-rockers-were-running-for-potus-who-would-get-your-vote-the-boss-or-kid-rock/639976/6 "2012-11-05T19:10:36Z")
> [@silenus](#):
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> Bruuuuuuuuce!
Why are you booing?
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### Author:  [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-rockers-were-running-for-potus-who-would-get-your-vote-the-boss-or-kid-rock/639976/7 "2012-11-05T19:18:32Z")
I kind of wish this had been a public poll…
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### Author:  [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-rockers-were-running-for-potus-who-would-get-your-vote-the-boss-or-kid-rock/639976/8 "2012-11-05T19:22:45Z")
Like this is serious? Kid Rock would pass out handguns to everyone who wanted one, bomb some country just to see big 'splosions, and declare a National Day of Partying, before expiring from Hepatitus C six months into his reign. Being an idiot and all.
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### Author:  [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-rockers-were-running-for-potus-who-would-get-your-vote-the-boss-or-kid-rock/639976/9 "2012-11-05T19:27:09Z")
> [@salinqmind](#):
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> Like this is serious? Kid Rock would pass out handguns to everyone who wanted one, bomb some country just to see big 'splosions, and declare a National Day of Partying, before expiring from Hepatitus C six months into his reign. Being an idiot and all.
You forgot that he would also ‘start an escort service/for all the right reasons/and set up shop at the top of Four Seasons.’
One of his biggest campaign promises, I understand.
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### Author:  [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-rockers-were-running-for-potus-who-would-get-your-vote-the-boss-or-kid-rock/639976/10 "2012-11-05T19:31:30Z")
> [@MacTech](#):
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> I hate KR, so it’s Springsteen by default
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> Although I’d probably have a write in vote for Vincent Furnier (Alice Cooper) instead
+1
and he said _I Want to be Elected_
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### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-rockers-were-running-for-potus-who-would-get-your-vote-the-boss-or-kid-rock/639976/11 "2012-11-05T19:35:09Z")
I don’t know anything about Mr. Rock. Therefore, Springstein by default.
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### Author:  [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-rockers-were-running-for-potus-who-would-get-your-vote-the-boss-or-kid-rock/639976/12 "2012-11-05T20:22:07Z")
Write-in vote for Ted Nugent. 😉
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### Author:  [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-rockers-were-running-for-potus-who-would-get-your-vote-the-boss-or-kid-rock/639976/13 "2012-11-05T20:28:57Z")
Much as I enjoy his music and enthusiasm for our shared hometown, Kid Rock is either paying lip service to the troops by visiting them in a war zone and wishing them a safe return home or to Mitt Romney, who Kid supports but who also wants to go to war w/ Iran, thereby putting those same military persons in harm’s way.
Bruce has my vote.
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### Author:  [@Busy\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Busy_Scissors)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-rockers-were-running-for-potus-who-would-get-your-vote-the-boss-or-kid-rock/639976/14 "2012-11-05T20:40:47Z")
Bruce, well known as a thoughtful, socially conscious bloke, isn’t cut out for PotUS - he’d try and be all things to all men. Kid Rock, well known as an asshole, is more suited to the role.
Kid Rock being dumber than owl shit is not an insurmountable problem, either. It’s the ass-hole-ness that counts here.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-rockers-were-running-for-potus-who-would-get-your-vote-the-boss-or-kid-rock/639976/15 "2012-11-05T20:44:20Z")
> [@MacTech](#):
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> I hate KR, so it’s Springsteen by default
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> Although I’d probably have a write in vote for Vincent Furnier (Alice Cooper) instead
I remember when a recall movement was started against Arizona Governor [Evan Meacham](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Mecham#Recall_drive) in 1987 (he actually ended up being impeached and removed from office), Cooper, who lives in Paradise Valley, took out a nomination petition. His slogan?
“A troubled man for troubled times.” 😃
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### Author:  [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-rockers-were-running-for-potus-who-would-get-your-vote-the-boss-or-kid-rock/639976/16 "2012-11-05T20:45:32Z")
If Bruce were Potus, he’d sit around wringing his hands in angst over the plight of the working man, and he’d be the national scold telling us just how bad we are for not caring about all the things he cares about. And, he’d going around revisiting themes that were exciting in the 70’s but totally dated today, trading on nostalgia for an era that never really existed. It would be totally depressing.
Kid Rock, on the other hand, would throw a big damned party and then leave everyone the hell alone.
Kid Rock by a mile.
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### Author:  [@babygoat666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/babygoat666)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-rockers-were-running-for-potus-who-would-get-your-vote-the-boss-or-kid-rock/639976/17 "2012-11-05T20:46:35Z")
> [@mbh](#):
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> Write-in vote for Ted Nugent. 😉
That man is deranged.
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### Author:  [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-rockers-were-running-for-potus-who-would-get-your-vote-the-boss-or-kid-rock/639976/18 "2012-11-05T21:20:55Z")
Gene Simmons '2016!
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### Author:  [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-rockers-were-running-for-potus-who-would-get-your-vote-the-boss-or-kid-rock/639976/19 "2012-11-05T21:39:22Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#):
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> Gene Simmons '2016!
He’s foreign-born so disqualified, Typo…sorry. May I interest you in Vince Neil, perhaps?
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-rockers-were-running-for-potus-who-would-get-your-vote-the-boss-or-kid-rock/639976/20 "2012-11-05T21:41:08Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#):
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> Why are you booing?
He’ not booing, he’s saying “Roooooooooock”!
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