{"id":29785,"date":"2010-10-24T08:18:33","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T08:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/mellencamp-on-palin-he-doesnt-like-her-but-he-respects-her\/"},"modified":"2010-10-24T08:18:33","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T08:18:33","slug":"mellencamp-on-palin-he-doesnt-like-her-but-he-respects-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/mellencamp-on-palin-he-doesnt-like-her-but-he-respects-her.php","title":{"rendered":"Mellencamp on Palin: He doesn&#8217;t like her, but he respects her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>I've got to say this is a huge relief for us rightwing rock fans.  How many times do you have to blot out a rocker's political views in your own mind, while listening to their music?  Springsteen comes first to mind.  But then there's John Mellencamp.  I'm a huge fan.  But he's such a damned Lefty, that it's hard to enjoy any of his music past or present.  <\/p><p>We Mellencamp fans might have a bit of a reprieve, finally!<br><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/TMIn-AVdeCI\/AAAAAAAAN9s\/0S8q3uE0rxY\/s1600\/SarahPalinflag2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/54a68_SarahPalinflag2.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p><blockquote><p>Palin finds unlikely admirer in John Mellencamp <\/p><p>NEW YORK (<a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_PEOPLE_JOHN_MELLENCAMP_SARAH_PALIN?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2010-10-22-08-52-54\">AP<\/a>) -- Former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has found an admirer in John Mellencamp.<\/p><p>The legendary rocker says that while he doesn't support her positions, he is impressed by the mark she's made on the country since the 2008 election.<br>Mellencamp says people get the wrong idea about her intellect \"just because she says things and winks.\"<\/p><p>He says she \"knows exactly what's she doing\" and \"she wouldn't be where she is today if she didn't.\"<\/p><p>Mellencamp gives Palin credit for handling the rough world of politics. He says \"she's pushing the right buttons\" and \"you can't be stupid and do that.\"<\/p><\/blockquote><p>It's certainly no endorsement of Palin.  But it's respectful.  That's good enough.  I'll take it.  <\/p><p>(H\/t Breitbart)<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/54a68_7828681836623105417-4119360410586947004?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Eric Dondero:I've got to say this is a huge relief for us rightwing rock fans. How many times do you have to blot out a rocker's political views in your own mind, while listening to their music? Springsteen comes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/mellencamp-on-palin-he-doesnt-like-her-but-he-respects-her.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}