# Which Rock & Roller would make the best President? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 31, 2003, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-rock-roller-would-make-the-best-president/192018 "2003-07-31T00:40:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![japatlgt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@japatlgt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/japatlgt)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-rock-roller-would-make-the-best-president/192018/21 "2003-07-31T04:08:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dooku \* > \*\*I think we’re all in agreeance that it would be Fred Durst. 😃 \*\* Thumbs up! Good one. tee hee I gotta go with Teddy Boy! hey, you asked! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-rock-roller-would-make-the-best-president/192018/22 "2003-07-31T04:36:34Z")
> [@](#): > > And we need to put a Sex Mo-Sheen, in the White White House. Cuz Bushy Bushy Bushy is a Pussy Pussy Pussy: This makes me think we should elect James Brown. “He’s the Hardest Working Man in Show Business: let him work hard for America.” ---
**Author:** ![BlackLabel1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e5b9ba/32.png) [@BlackLabel1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackLabel1)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-rock-roller-would-make-the-best-president/192018/23 "2003-07-31T07:33:29Z")
The only rocker I would vote for as president would be Zakk Wylde. He is just plain and simple the man. Everyone would be drinking beer and kickin it throughout the country! ---
**Author:** ![A\_wizard\_song\_for\_thee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/46a35a/32.png) [@A\_wizard\_song\_for\_thee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_wizard_song_for_thee)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-rock-roller-would-make-the-best-president/192018/24 "2003-07-31T08:00:34Z")
Swamp Dogg. Total destruction to your mind! ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-rock-roller-would-make-the-best-president/192018/25 "2003-07-31T08:01:53Z")
If Frank Zappa was still alive, I think he would make an excellent president. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-rock-roller-would-make-the-best-president/192018/26 "2003-07-31T08:05:28Z")
Bowie. He’s ruled incompetent idiots before. (Labyrinth) He’s got that scary freaky eye thing. He’s British, with a cool accent, so we won’t look like bumbling idiots on the world stage. He knows how to put on a show. We’ve had an actor for president, why not an actor/rock star? He’s ZIGGY FREAKIN’ STARDUST. Though I’d kinda like to see Nugent as Prez, because he is out of his mind, and it might be amusing. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-rock-roller-would-make-the-best-president/192018/27 "2003-07-31T09:58:32Z")
I’d vote for Hank Rollins, just because. That’s why he’ll never run for office, ya know? ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-rock-roller-would-make-the-best-president/192018/28 "2003-07-31T11:15:18Z")
No votes for Lemmy yet? He’s been through a lot, will not bullshit you, and seems to be pretty smart. I would vote for Alice Cooper though, he seems to know his stuff too. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-rock-roller-would-make-the-best-president/192018/29 "2003-07-31T11:21:35Z")
Brittany Spears!! _ow! Hey quit it! That hurts! AAAHH!!!_ ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-rock-roller-would-make-the-best-president/192018/30 "2003-07-31T11:38:48Z")
Presidents must be born in the US, so that would rule out Bowie and Lemmy. Lemmy is a Brit, right? I would vote for Dee Snyder. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-rock-roller-would-make-the-best-president/192018/31 "2003-07-31T12:06:15Z")
People in New Jersey do mention Springsteen a lot, sometimes seriously. If Brits could be President, Paul McCartney would get the baby boomer vote. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-rock-roller-would-make-the-best-president/192018/32 "2003-07-31T12:13:44Z")
Scott Miller of The Loud Family Maybe Henry Rollins ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-rock-roller-would-make-the-best-president/192018/33 "2003-07-31T12:16:37Z")
George Clinton, no doubt. If he wasn’t getting on in years, James Brown would be the unquestionable choice. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-rock-roller-would-make-the-best-president/192018/34 "2003-07-31T12:30:41Z")
I heard Ted Nugent advocating gun rights on some radio call-in show, and I gotta say, this guy has what it takes to be a master politician. I was impressed. He remembered callers’ names and kept referring to them a good hour after they called. He fired up his “protect your freedom” rhetoric with so much zeal I was ready to vote his ass in to whatever office was open. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-rock-roller-would-make-the-best-president/192018/35 "2003-07-31T12:37:31Z")
Definitely the Motor City Madman. ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-rock-roller-would-make-the-best-president/192018/36 "2003-07-31T13:41:02Z")
KISS All of them. “We pretty much went into politics for the groupies and interns.” ---
**Author:** ![refusal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@refusal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/refusal)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-rock-roller-would-make-the-best-president/192018/37 "2003-07-31T14:37:50Z")
Iggy Pop would be a good figurehead, a sensitive and moral man with rather more life experience than most leaders. And see-through trousers. But it’s not easy finding someone who’s done more drugs than George W. Bush. Dave Grohl seems a nice guy and looks good with pigtails, which is pretty essential for the position. But overall, I’d say Kathleen Hanna. Moral, committed, loud, funny, eccentric fashion sense. Plus we’d get a Beastie Boy as First Man, which has to be good. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-rock-roller-would-make-the-best-president/192018/38 "2003-07-31T14:51:28Z")
Tommy Lee. When he tells the world, “I speak softly, but I carry a **BIG** stick,” he means it. ---
**Author:** ![tomyoung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@tomyoung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomyoung)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-rock-roller-would-make-the-best-president/192018/39 "2003-07-31T16:22:01Z")
I’m shocked and disappointed that no one has yet nominated G.G. Allin. Even from the grave, he is still [touching people’s lives.](http://www.mctrachiotomy.com/lc.html) And you know the Presidential debates would be incredible. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-rock-roller-would-make-the-best-president/192018/40 "2003-07-31T17:21:17Z")
Now that is definitely a thought. “Last night at the presidential debates, Independent Party contender, G. G. Allin, grabbed and sodomized Democratic hopeful Senator Kerry. When questioned about his actions, Allin said, quote ‘AAAHHHHH!!! FUCKING LIQUOR AND CUNTS!!! PISS ON YOU!!!’, and beat himself unconscious with an empty whiskey bottle. More on CuntGate as events develop.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-rock-roller-would-make-the-best-president/192018.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-rock-roller-would-make-the-best-president/192018.md?page=3)