# Your campaign song-what would it be?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-campaign-song-what-would-it-be/468000
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 15, 2008, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-campaign-song-what-would-it-be/468000 "2008-10-15T03:00:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2008, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-campaign-song-what-would-it-be/468000/1 "2008-10-15T03:00:05Z")
Let’s say you were running for office. What would your campaign song be? (Pretend you already have permission from the artist and all that jazz)
Mine? U2, “Beautiful Day.”
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2008, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-campaign-song-what-would-it-be/468000/2 "2008-10-15T03:05:12Z")
In the best of all possible worlds, _“All You Need Is Love”_.
Yeah, I know, dream on…
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### Author:  [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2008, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-campaign-song-what-would-it-be/468000/3 "2008-10-15T03:31:34Z")
To be honest?
_Crazy Bitch_
“Unh, she’s a crazy bitch, but she politicks so well, she’s so up on it!”
Heh.
Hey, Crazy Bitch is the best description of me ever, and as I’d have being utterly honest as my only campaign platform–it’s perfect.
I’d never get elected mind you, but it would be great to hear that as I walked to a podium.
(Though it works for Palin in a more/less perfect way.)
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### Author:  [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2008, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-campaign-song-what-would-it-be/468000/4 "2008-10-15T03:46:52Z")
“We’re not gonna take it” by Twisted Sister I really hope Obama uses it, either that or “Peace Train” but that was already used.
> **[Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It Lyrics](https://www.lyricsondemand.com/onehitwonders/werenotgonnatakeitlyrics.html)**
>
> We're Not Gonna Take It Lyrics by Twisted Sister at Lyrics On Demand
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2008, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-campaign-song-what-would-it-be/468000/5 "2008-10-15T03:52:41Z")
“No More Mister Nice Guy” - **Alice Cooper**
_I used to be such a sweet, sweet thing
Until they got a hold of me_
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### Author:  [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2008, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-campaign-song-what-would-it-be/468000/6 "2008-10-15T03:52:47Z")
_Returns a King_ from 300.
Too much? 😃
I guess “Kill the Poor” and “Political Science” are out, too?
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### Author:  [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2008, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-campaign-song-what-would-it-be/468000/7 "2008-10-15T03:55:54Z")
“That ‘My Maserati Does 185’ song”
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### Author:  [@H3Knuckles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H3Knuckles)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-campaign-song-what-would-it-be/468000/8 "2008-10-15T03:57:49Z")
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised… I kid, I kid…:rolleyes:😃
“Once in a lifetime” by Talking Heads, because I’d have no idea how the hell I got there.
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### Author:  [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2008, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-campaign-song-what-would-it-be/468000/9 "2008-10-15T04:12:58Z")
“Elected” by Alice Cooper, of course!
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### Author:  [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2008, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-campaign-song-what-would-it-be/468000/10 "2008-10-15T04:14:54Z")
‘Godzilla’
“With a purposeful grimace and a terrible smell, he pulls the spitting high tension wires down. Helpless people on subway trains scream ‘My God’ as he looks in on them”.
'Course, it may not accurately reflect my opinion regarding Japan, but otherwise, it would probably be perfect.
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2008, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-campaign-song-what-would-it-be/468000/11 "2008-10-15T04:15:24Z")
Since I’d want to sound like I can do **stuff** , some of it impressive, I think I’d have to go with “[Handlebars](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuK2A1ZqoWs&feature=related)” by Flowbot.
I can design an engine sixty four
Miles to a gallon of gasoline
I can make new antibiotics…
Me and my friends understand the future
I see the strings that control the systems
I can do anything with no assistance
I can lead a nation with a microphone…
I can make anybody go to prison
Just because I don’t like’em and
I can do anything with no permission
I have it all under my command
I can guide a missile by satellite
By satellite…
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2008, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-campaign-song-what-would-it-be/468000/12 "2008-10-15T04:36:09Z")
Either “Relax” by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, or L7’s “Shit List.”
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### Author:  [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2008, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-campaign-song-what-would-it-be/468000/13 "2008-10-15T05:07:57Z")
“Ain’t Got Nobody”
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### Author:  [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2008, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-campaign-song-what-would-it-be/468000/14 "2008-10-15T05:14:41Z")
Hmm… we could go with _Memories Can’t Wait_ by the Talking Heads;
_There’s a party in my mind…And I hope it never stops
There’s a party up there all the time…They’ll party till they drop_
Or maybe Alan Parson’s _No Future in the Past_.
Or Sheryl Crow _A Change Would Do You Good_?
Maybe Styx _Too Much Time On My Hands_😃
_Well, I’m a jet fuel genius - I can solve the worlds problems
Without even trying
I have dozens of friends and the fun never ends
That is, as long as Im buying
Is it any wonder I’m not the president
(hes not the president)
Is it any wonder I’m null and void?_
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2008, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-campaign-song-what-would-it-be/468000/15 "2008-10-15T05:54:23Z")
_Unsung_
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### Author:  [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2008, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-campaign-song-what-would-it-be/468000/16 "2008-10-15T06:09:53Z")
The Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy For The Devil”. Please allow me to introduce myself, I’m a man of wealth and taste- and I have the experience to lead!
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### Author:  [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2008, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-campaign-song-what-would-it-be/468000/17 "2008-10-15T07:06:39Z")
“Mr. Bad Example” by Warren Zevon, or “The Candidate” by David Bowie.
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### Author:  [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2008, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-campaign-song-what-would-it-be/468000/18 "2008-10-15T07:21:30Z")
Just to get people into the mood for their next 4 years of suffering, “The End” by The Doors.
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-campaign-song-what-would-it-be/468000/19 "2008-10-15T17:09:24Z")
“I Want It All” by Queen. I’m going to play to the voters who favor egomaniacal tyrants.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2008, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-campaign-song-what-would-it-be/468000/20 "2008-10-15T17:11:46Z")
“Push,” by Matchbox 20.
> [@](#):
>
> I wanna push you around, well I will, I will
> I wanna push you down, well I will, I will
> I wanna take you for granted, I wanna take you for granted
> Well I will
Call it truth in advertising. 😃
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