Hank Williams Jr. Is Ready For Some McCain-Palin, Football

Two rallies for Sarah Palin in Virginia Monday were blessed by the presence of country legend Hank Williams, Jr., author of “The Coalition To Ban Coalitions,” “If The South Woulda Won” and “Fax Me A Beer.” Williams serenaded the VP nominee with “The McCain-Palin Tradition”—to the tune of Williams’ “The Family Tradition”—which opens with “The left wing liberal media has always been a close knit family.” The song goes on to note that Bill Clinton made banks give loans to risky people (”Democrat liberal hoodoo!”), “Sarah fixed Alaska’s broken condition,” the Republican ticket is just like “Good Ol’ Hank,” and that if you mess with her cubs, she’s going to take off her gloves (”it’s an American female tradition!”).

The song appears to be getting some workshopping on the road. In Virginia Beach (and in the studio), Williams—wearing a football jersey—sang that Palin and McCain “don’t have terrorist friends to whom their careers are linked,” while in Richmond, he amended the lyric to “radical friends.” In the printed lyrics given to the media, Obama’s connection to Bill Ayers is ignored entirely. Hey, at least the campaign found someone who’d let them use their song.