07.01.11
Thaddeus McCotter watch
According to breaking news GOP Rep. from Michigan, Thaddeus McCotter, will enter the presidential race on Saturday.
DD blog touched upon the quizzical McCotter here. Principally, McCotter is — right now — best known for short guitar-strumming video made with the far right publication, Human Events. Entitled Rock Solid with Thad McCotter, they feature the man playing riffs from the Stones before briefly discussing topics of world interest — like the travails of Silvio Berlusconi.
McCotter still carries a strong whiff of extremist GOP weirdo who just happens to have to be more friendly to labor because he relies somewhat on the union vote in his district.
For instance, he has made a hobby of being in a number of the very bad political documentaries produced by GOP loyalists Ray Griggs and Stephen Bannon. (Bannon is responsible for the Sarah Palin film hagiography, “The Undefeated,” a movie apparently so awful it rates no reviews on Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes despite being regularly in the news.)
McCotter’s list of movies where he has a talking head role is here at IMDb.
The notices on these gobblers speak for themselves.
“This is pure fascist propaganda brought to you by the same people that have been pushing religion and any other mid evil [sic] practices they can come up with,” reads one citizen reviewer of “I Want Your Money.”
“Yay! A 42% Tax cut for the rich!” writes another of the video, on its way to a solid 4.4 on a scale of ten.
McCotter has also written a book entitled Seize Freedom — also his Presidential slogan — which few seem to have read. That is probably about to change.
Two of the biggest obstacles McCotter faces are overcoming Bachmann-mania or the phenomenon of holding one’s nose and supporting Mitt Romney because he’s the least among the extremists. However, McCotter does have his own set of unique quirks.
McCotter is often stilted and, well, weird. It’s difficult to tell if he’s just trying to bring humor to the world or if the Wayne County pol is actually like that all the time.
In an interview for his book, it’s on prominent display in print here. And in his Rock Solid vids on YouTube.
Here’s another moment — McCotter making an off joke before voting ‘no’ on some piece of legislation aimed at boosting healthcare for children.
In other words, he’s basically unelectable, too. Originally, I thought this might not be the case. I was mistaken.
Here’s McCotter, taken from a question and answer interview while promoting his book:
Q: Mitch Daniels called for a truce on social issues this election cycle. What do you think of that?
McCotter: A truce with whom? This constitutes an unprincipled unilateral surrender to the left that initiated and continues to wage its “culture war??? against Americans’ traditional and cherished way of life.
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