Megadeth singer endorses Rick Santorum, calls Newt Gingrich ‘an angry little man’

[Zorro]

In an interview with Music Radar Tuesday, Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine dished on his support for Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum:

"Earlier in the election, I was completely oblivious as to who Rick Santorum was, but when the dude went home to be with his daughter when she was sick, that was very commendable. Also, just watching how he hasn't gotten into doing these horrible, horrible attack ads like Mitt Romney's done against Newt Gingrich, and then the volume at which Newt has gone back at Romney… You know, I think Santorum has some presidential qualities, and I'm hoping that if it does come down to it, we'll see a Republican in the White House ... and that it's Rick Santorum."

A spokesman for Rick Santorum's presidential campaign did not immediately respond for a request for comment.

For Mustaine, who hopes "whatever is in the White House next year is a Republican," candidates Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul just don't cut it.

More at: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/megadeth-singer-endorses-rick-santorum-calls-newt-gingrich-164220697.html

The coveted Megadeth endorsement!

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. I once went home with my daughter....little did I know I could have run for president!

If the bar were any lower to some of these clowns, the ants wouldn't be able to crawl underneath.

[saras]

14. Hopefully not blind drunk at closing time, thinking each other unaccountably familiar...

ya gotta watch it when you go comparing yourself to a Republican...

[Alexander]

2. Mustaine voted for Clinton in 1992, but has sadly turned right-wing lately.

The Megadeth album "United Abominations" is itself an abomination, an obvious attack on the UN and promoting the idea that the End Times will occur in our lifetime.

He seems to hate Barack Obama for whatever reason - and this isn't the first time he's expressed that opinion.

I've also read that Mustaine turned to Christianity about a decade ago and has since had a preacher following him around so that he doesn't "stray" by indulging in booze, drugs or extramarital sex.

His lyrics have always been laced with Christian themes ever since Megadeth's first album in 1985, but it seems since his "conversion" he's turned into a full-blown member of the Religious Right. I find it strange how so many alcoholics and drug addicts turn to a right-wing brand of Christianity to help them quit - like they're exchanging one addiction for another.

[arcane1]

3. He also became a loyal Bushie

My how things change

[noiretextatique]

4. it's just another extreme

from extreme self-indulgence to extreme self-righteousness.

[olegramps]

25. There no one more hypocritical than some old whore who just got religion.

[noiretextatique]

34. that's the truth

was just talking with a cousin who's kid is in a bad relationship. the kid's uncle is now a born-again type, but he spent twenty years on crack...in jail, stealing from my family...the whole nine. guess who calls the kid stupid, weak, etc? the former crackhead turned religious fanatic. typical.

[AtheistCrusader]

15. Wow, when the hell did all this go down?

I never noticed at all.

[mwb970]

21. *Exactly* like that. /nt

[Alcibiades]

27. He was raised freaky

Seventh-day adventist or somthing like that. Becoming an evangelical isn't too much of a leap.

[blackspade]

33. I definately won't be picking up anything new from them.

I find it strange how so many alcoholics and drug addicts turn to a right-wing brand of Christianity to help them quit - like they're exchanging one addiction for another.

I find this weird myself.
Why does every epiphany have to go the crazy route?

[HughBeaumont]

37. AA has spiritual themes, as do a lot of recovery programs.

Mustaine's likely following a path, judging by some of these posts, that's common among recovering addicts. What do agnostics/atheists do? Seems to me turning to something you don't really believe in isn't going to work wonders in successfully stopping a problem. I cannot find a porn-addiction program that isn't fundie-rooted.

[Alexander]

39. Yet lots of agnostics/atheists get help from AA and these other programs you mention.

I've known a few people who have gone to AA, and they were all pretty clear that AA doesn't require a belief in the Judeo-Christian concept of God, or in fact any God whatsoever. It just mentions believing in a higher power than yourself, which could literally be anyone or anything.

What bugs me is not that Mustaine or anyone else turned to Christianity to help them kick an addiction - my view is, if it works for you, go for it - it's that all too often, people become self-appointed arbiters of right and wrong afterwards, thinking that they suddenly have all the answers and can dictate how people should live their lives. At the same time, everyone around them remembers what a mess they were not too long ago.

Mustaine is just another example of this. As I've pointed out, he was hardly right-wing before his 2002 "come to Jesus" moment - and songs like "Peace Sells", "Countdown to Extinction", "Foreclosure Of A Dream" and "Hangar 18" definitely sound like they were written by a lefty - yet now he's embraced the most extreme right-wing religious nuttery as part of his conversion.

[provis99]

5. well, he's been a consistent ass his whole life.

You really have to be a giant ass for the egotistical assheads in Metallica to think you're such an egotistical ass you need to be thrown out of the band.

[awoke_in_2003]

9. +1000. nt

[Alcibiades]

29. Exactly!

Here's someone who was kicked out of Metallica for drinking too much. And yet, how the fuck do you get kicked out of Metallica in 1983 for drinking too much? Only if you are also an asshole, and Metallica already had James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, so they had met their quota.

[The Doctor.]

6. Yes, it's shocking...

not every thrash/death metal artist is a rocket surgeon.

[Tripod]

7. I guess it goes along with his band name. death

[mikeysnot]

26. Mega wuss sucks

He can't even spell death correctly... it is MegaDeth and they have always sucked. Who give s shit what that fuckehead thinks.

The sound for Motorhead was over the top with Lemi's vocals load and clear, then wimp boy came on and you could hardly hear him "sing"... what a puss.

Saw them last Friday in Chicago. Walked out after 15 minutes. I was there to see Motorhead and only Motorhead.

I cannot believe dumbasses paid 80 bucks for this shithead.

[Tripod]

36. OOPS my bad!

[Ikonoklast]

38. I'd pay that money to just see Lemmy and The Lads.

MegaDeth?

Oooh, look at the time, gotta go!

[Phlem]

8. Too bad.

I had some respect for him.

but the crazy has taken over.

I'll have to stick a fork in ya Dave cause your done!

-p

[Obamacare]

10. WHO??

[OnyxCollie]

11. It's been over 20 years since Rust in Peace came out.

Sorry, Dave, but you are no longer relevant.

Why don't you start a supergroup with Charlie Daniels, Ted Nugent, and Hank Williams, Jr.?

[Zookeeper]

13. +1. They all need to check a mirror and a calendar. n/t

[AlbertCat]

19. start a supergroup with Charlie Daniels, Ted Nugent, and Hank Williams, Jr.

One crappy stupid hit wonder Charlie Daniels is too fat to share the stage with anyone.


(I knew someone who made clothes for Charlie & Mrs Daniels, Hazel. They smoke pot like a chimney... which is fine, but you'd think they'd mellow out!)

[ellisonz]

12. Good thing I was never into metal...

[JoeyT]

16. Well Mustaine was always crazier than a shithouse rat.

The early music was alright even if laced with rambling conspiracy gibberish, everything since Countdown to Extinction was pure garbage.

Fundamentalist Christianity doesn't lend itself well to death metal.

[AlbertCat]

18. everything since Countdown to Extinction was pure garbage.

Their 1st album "Killing is my Business.. and Business is Good" indeed was just garbage, not pure garbage.

[pepperbear]

17. I wonder who Bret Michaels likes?

[NatBurner]

30. right? i'm reserving judgment until tommy lee weighs in

[mwb970]

20. So overexposure to loud music affects more than just your ears.

Good to know, good to know.

[sofa king]

22. Always trying to bring on the Apocalypse.

[Bruce Wayne]

23. Excellent find! Zorro, you're my hero (ever since I was a kid)

But I don't want to talk about that anymore

[NeedleCast]

24. Mustain Found Jesus back in the early 00's

He's been pretty much a sanctimonious prick since then.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

28. Who's Megadeth?!?!

LOL!!

[Craigtee3030]

31. Wait til you see Who's NEXT UP for Santorum...

Today...Tricky Ricky Sanitarium...will be endorsed in TWO GALAXIES, simultaneously...

...by 80's fictional space man/dog/what the hell was he, ANYWAY...

ALF!

[blackspade]

32. Damnit!

I love Megadeth, but WTF?

This is the same Mustaine that wrote Symphony of Destruction and Peace Sells?
I saw an interview where he said he had found the Christian God, but I never took him for a koolaid drinker.

Yet another metal artist I really liked that I have to knock off my playlist.....

[and-justice-for-all]

35. Makes me want to toss all my Megadeth cds into the can...

Dave went over the edge sometime ago, after he became a born again xtian. I repuke will not be getting the keys to the car in November.