"When you've lost Kid Rock, GOP, you might as well go home already."

[damnedifIknow]

Kid Rock, talking to The New York Times:

Fiscally, I’m Republican. But the social issues kill me — gay marriage and abortion. It’s like, Come on, man, get off it. There’s so many big problems we got that we really need to address in this country."

I'm always happy to hear someone self-describe as fiscally conservative and socially liberal. That's like 90 percent of the way to being libertarian."

http://reason.com/blog/2015/02/09/kid-rock-fiscally-im-republican-but-the

[JI7]

1. it doesn't say they lost him, he is just willing to vote for his own tax cuts over rights for gays

and women and others

[damnedifIknow]

2. He's seen the light

Well at least socially liberal sounds good.

[JI7]

4. no he hasn't, i think he has always personally been ok with same sex marriage and abortion

these positions are not new to him.

but he is willing to vote for his own tax cuts over rights of others.

[MFrohike]

3. It's not 90%

It is libertarian. Fiscally conservative and socially liberal just means conservative.

[ND-Dem]

5. +100. And that includes a wide swath of the folks posting at DU.