In the first two days since presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney tapped Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as his running mate, there’s been no shortage of punditry about Romney’s selection of the fiscally spare House Budget chairman.
We could bog you down with rehashed commentary from Meet the Press, grousing blogs from The Huffington Post or raw footage of Paul Krugman twirling in his chair (actually, that’d be awesome). But that’s old news at this point. Instead, The Washington Examiner has the latest spin from the eminent political forecaster of our time: Sir Mix-a-Lot.
Examiner editorial scribe Sean Higgins, searching for analysis, asked Mix this morning to weigh in on Ryan’s nomination. Mix, who turns 49 years old today—Happy birthday, Sir Mix!—replied not with an endorsement, but with a grim assessment of the state of our presidential politics:
@seanghiggins get ready for a very divisive campaign on both sides.I say ditch the two party system and get $$ out of politics.— Sir Mix-A-Lot (@therealmix) August 13, 2012
Indeed, the race between President Obama and Romney was nasty enough even before Saturday’s introduction of Ryan; in the hours since, the attacks from both sides have only grown more intense, with the Democratic Party lobbing bombs at the Romney-Ryan ticket for Ryan’s budget proposal, and the Republican side returning fire by focusing on the growth in federal deficits under the Obama administration.
Mix-a-Lot and Higgins continued their conversation in a few more tweets, in which the rapper also revealed that he’s still making up his mind about who to vote for. “I’m a pretty independent guy,” Mix wrote. “Never make up your mind during primaries. Too much pandering. We will see.”
And a search on OpenSecrets.org showed that Sir Mix-a-Lot, whose real name is Anthony Ray, lives by his credo of keeping money out of politics. His name did not return any political contributions between 2008 and 2012.
Perhaps a divided nation should turn its lonely eyes to the scribe of “Baby Got Back.”
