RIP Kid Rock's Senate Campaign

[Initech]

Kid Rock has officially ruled out a run for Senate in Michigan next year.

Speaking to radio shock jock Howard Stern on Tuesday, Robert Ritchie, also known by his stage name Kid Rock, sought to dispel rumors that he would jump into the 2018 race to unseat incumbent Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow.

"F--- no I'm not running for Senate, are you f---ing kidding me?" he told Stern. "Who couldn't figure that out?"

Kid Rock, a prominent Michigan Republican who visited President Donald Trump at the White House in April, fueled speculation earlier this year that he may run.

A July poll showed him in a virtual dead heat with Stabenow, a longtime Michigan senator. The same poll showed him with a substantial lead in Michigan's GOP primary.
http://www.businessinsider.com/kid-rock-says-he-wont-run-for-senate-2017-10?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=referral

Well at least he's honest, and he's not going to be a senator. Good. But scary that the polls were that dead heated.

[DetlefK]

1. The attack-ads would have been just his music-videos.

"Drugs, booze and titties! Yeah!"

[Moostache]

2. The fact that people would poll FOR him is an indictment of our society...

Jesus Fucking Christ crucified...

Donald Trump wins Michigan (under highly suspect conditions and with massive amounts of foreign assistance) and becomes a complete disaster and national disgrace in office...yet the first chance the people of Michigan get to show that they recognize the folly of having a grade-A moron in charge of anything more taxing than wiping its own ass they poll in a dead heat for a foul-mouthed, braggadocios, non-serious rapper and a career Senator and civil servant?

This nation is broken beyond repair and the second Civil War is coming...

[Initech]

8. I'm just glad he's not running.

It would have been almost as big of a disaster as the orange shit bag we have in the White House!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. I guess we'll never know the answer to the question:

Would it be "Senator Kid Rock" or just "Senator Rock"?

[bdtrppr6]

14. most would just stick with

"Hey, DumbShit!"

[Grammy23]

4. Evidently SOMEONE thought he was going to run.

I saw a guy in Pensacola, FL wearing a Kid Rock for US Senste 2018 tee shirt just last week. Think that tee shirt will be collectible one day??

[WinkyDink]

5. Yet the IRONY escapes him: That his fellow TRUMP voters are EXACTLY who "couldn't figure that out."

[Snotcicles]

6. I think the crowd booing him and cheering Eminem at a recent Pistons game did him in. nt

[Cirque du So-What]

17. That was my 1st thought

Precious snowflake didn't receive the requisite adulation he craved.

[Fullduplexxx]

7. Stern still has a show? .... didnt know

[lunasun]

9. Fuckin voters polled scare me more than him !

[Orrex]

10. He dropped out because of a humiliating photo from his youth

[Initech]

11. Well to be fair, his campaign lasted 12.5 Scaramuccis!

[Orrex]

13. Now THAT is a fine joke

Well played.

Well played.

[Iggo]

12. He still would have won the primary.

Not because he's any good, but because voters are fuuuuuucking stupid.

I'm telling you this from the land of the Governator and Proposition H8, so I know first hand.

[maryellen99]

16. I live here in the Detroit area and the white Trumpies LOVE him

He in all likelihood would have won.

[Kittycow]

18. Any idea of what would happen if Eminem ran?

I've been light-heartedly toying with that thought ever since I saw his recent anti-trump video.

I imagine he would run as an Independent.

I don't think he would do it but it was just fun to think about what would happen if he ended up in the Senate.

[Buns_of_Fire]

15. Maybe he just learned that he's up for John Kelly's job. nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

19. But who else will take up the ever crucial matter of....

....Bawitdaba da bang da bang diggy diggy diggy shake the boogie said up jump the booging?

[librechik]

20. There is a God n/t

[Kaleva]

21. By September, Kid Rock had fallen about 20 points behind Stabenow

His "run" for the Senate was nothing but a joke.