The news  that Bruce Springstein and Billy Joel are to play a Barack Obama fundraising concert in mid October got me thinking about which bands and artists Republican VP Sarah ' Barracuda  ' Palin, if left to her own devices,  would get to headline a similar  gig for her and McCain and what numbers she'd like to represent the place where she's coming from.

Artists and bands:

I ruled out K D. Laing, Marc Almond  and Jayne County and the Electric Chairs  as although Palin admits to having some ' gay friends 'I dont think this ultra conservative hockey mom makes a point of hanging out with or listening to them. I also think Jayne and Sarah's personalities would clash.  Marylyn Manson would probably run the risk of causing offence  - Satanism real or feigned is probably a big No No in the Palin household -  and  they'd only end up fighting over the hairbrush anyway.  Spice Girls or Abba classics?  .Could be...but Morrisey seems an excellent choice as he's long been a bit of a maverick himself but as game as he is I cant quite  see 'Meat is Murder' going down too well with folk who get their rocks off shooting Moose on the Alaskan steppes from helipcopters. I kept running through my mental list of likely stars and bands, Patti Smith, Courtney Love, Guns and Roses, Edie Brickell, Devo, Alien Sex Fiend, Lydia Lunch, NIN,  Rage Against the Machine , GG Allin et cetera , et cetera but none leapt  out as a natural Palin  Act..

So what about the crooners..?.

Barbara Streisland.... staunch democrat.

Frank Sinatra . Dead.

Barry Manilow? He'd sooner cut his legs off!

It wasnt quite working so I thought I'd mentally scan through a few categories of music instead to try to pick out a couple of headliners for Sarah's , I mean John McCain's, fundraising  bash that way.

Death Metal. No. Hip hop . Maybe not.Soul? Nah, Sarah's  probably right out of minority friends . Acid House? Eh no. Electronica. Nope. Dub. Nope. Jungle? Nah. Trance? Nein. Disco...maybe....Saturday Night Fever...Bee Gees possibly , girlies dancing rounf their handbags, but with a couple of the Gibb Brothers dead it could be a bit of an anti-climax as I think they were the ones who hit the high notes. Jazz? Too sophisticated . Emo? Please! Country and Western, Willy Nelson could be available if Palin was maverick enough to promote the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws and cut him some slack with the IRS ....

Goth? Could Palin have ever have been a closet Cure fan?

Thrash Metal?

Grunge?. Her old man likes checked shirts? New Romantic? Probably not. Punk? I suppose she could do a  version of 'My Way that sounded like a baby seal being clubbed to death with a blunt ice pick.

Maybe they could just go with  this. 

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