Thursday, March 8, 2012

Game On: The Rick Santorum Song

I will never understand what makes political supporters think that the best way to support their candidate is to spend the last few days of an incredibly close and important primary for their candidate writing a song, filming it, and then editing instead of taking the 10 people involved and phone banking or something.  Also if you've ever heard someone refer to someone as having "crazy eyes" and wondered what they meant, the young women in this video are an excellent example (Rick Santorum is their man):



This is an original copyrighted song written by First Love
(Camille & Haley Harris & parents: David & Cherri Harris)
We wrote it Sunday night March 4th til 3 in the morning & woke up on March 5th to finish it.
We rushed to the studio about 30 minutes after it was done and recorded it!
Matt Latta videoed this and edited it all night March 5th - 6th for Super Tuesday.
We believe in Santorum's character and his ability to boldly lead this country in the right direction.

We Love Rick Santorum & His family!

p.s. We met them at both meetings held in Tulsa. We feel privileged and honored to write this song for them.
It was 100% our idea to write this for them - he deserves it.

Thank you!
Camille, Haley, David, Cherri, Kelsey, Elliott, Wesley, Rhema, Haddie, Dalton, Matt...
(We have 8 kids in our family!)

LYRICS:

VS 1:
GAME ON! Join the Fight
We've finally got a Man who will Stand for what is Right

GAME ON! Victory's in Sight
We've got a Man who Understands that God Gave the Bill of Rights

CH:
Oh, there is Hope for our Nation again
Maybe the First time Since we Had Ronald Reagan
There will be Justice for the Unborn
Factories back on our Shores
Where the Constitution rules our land
Yes, I Believe... Rick Santorum is our Man!

Vs 2:
GAME ON! He's got the Plan
To Lower Taxes, Raise Morale, To Put the Power in our Hands

GAME ON! Change is at hand
Faithful to his Wife and Seven Kids - He'll be Loyal to our land

BR:
Oh It's crazy, What's been slipping through our hands
When we the People are still supposed to rule this Land
Rick Understands

TAG:
GAME ON!
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5 comments:

  1. To be honest, I was expecting much worse when I read the title.

    And granted, for most folks, voter contact is probably the most effective this you can do to help you candidate. But I do think it's different for artists. Would you really argue that the best way for Jay-Z to help Barack Obama is to phone bank. He can reach a lot more people through music than through canvassing (but realistically the best thing he -- and most high profile artists -- can do to help Obama is to write a big check).

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    1. My obvious counterpoint to this is that these people released the music video after the polls closed in Ohio, so even if we assume that this video would inspire millions to vote Santorum they still failed to help their candidate at all.

      But I do agree with you about Jay-Z and celebrities in general. Canvassing/phonebanking probably isn't the most effective use of their time. But they should be doing free voter registration and GOTV concerts, filming ads (Tom Hanks just did one for the Obama SuperPAC) and in general using their art and fame to draw attention to their candidate BEFORE the election (also the money thing, definitely the money thing).

      That said, I'm really more fascinated by these artists then their song. They're what? Maybe early 20s? Maybe. And unlike most of these videos made by kids with their parents it seems pretty clear that they're not being put up to it by their parents. So I'm left with two young women in 2012 who seem rabidly devoted to Rick Santorum of all people. I want to talk to them and try to find out what made them the way they are.

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  2. ARE YOU JUST AS CURIOUS ABOUT WHAT MADE ROMNEY PEOPLE THE WAY THEY ARE? Obama people? Gingrich people? I just want to make sure you are not insinuating that there is something wrong with supporting Santorum.

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    1. I am actually curious about why anyone supports anyone in general (also why people on the internet think that capitalizing chunks of text makes their point stronger). But just to make absolutely clear, with absolutely no insinuation: I think that there is something wrong with supporting Rick Santorum.

      He's a theocrat who believes that women should not work outside the home, that contraception should be illegal, and frankly has a terrifying obsession with other people's sex life. He is a cartoonishly bad candidate.

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    2. would it be too simple of a response to say that people support someone because they align their own values with at least some of the values of that person? you don't necessarily have to agree with every point that candidate makes (you like President Obama's stance on foreign policy or the economy, but disagree with him on gay rights; or you like Mittens' stance or X but disagree with him on Y). you're probably not going to find a candidate that you see eye-to-eye with on EVERY issue, so you have to pick and choose what values you care about the most and support someone who best represents that. if you actually did find a candidate that you agreed with on every issue, then that candidate probably has no way chance of winning because he or she won't have broad enough appeal haha

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