Tweet Beat: The Top Ten Best Republican Songs

Tweet Beat: The Top Ten Best Republican Songs

Tweet Beat: The Top Ten Best Republican Songs

Twitter brings you the the best Republican songs you’ve never heard of. 

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This weekend the hashtag #RepublicanSongs was trending on Twitter. (For those of you unfamiliar with Twitter trending, it means that someone tweeted an idea—in this case the retitling of a popular song to reflect right-wing thinking, tagged with the hash tag #RepublicanSongs. So many people contributed their own ideas that the hashtag dominated Twitter for a day). Here are ten of the countless Republican Songs I spent my weekend—I mean, took a few minutes here and there out of my busy social calendar—coming up with. As I consider myself not only a Twitter artist but a Twitter curator, below my own titles I present a sampler of great Republican Songs tweeted by the greater Twitter community.

#RepublicanSongs from me:

  1. My Country ’Tis of Me (My Country ’Tis of Thee)

  2. The Times Should Not B-Changin(The Times They Are A-Changin’)

  3. Fetus, I Need Your Lovin’ (Baby, I Need Your Lovin’ )

  4. 99 Red Buffoons (99 Red Balloons)

  5. We Will, We Will Frack You (We Will, We Will Rock You)

  6. Take My Vote Away (Take My Breath Away)

  7. I Feel So Close to You Right Now, I’m in Your Uterus (I Feel So Close to You Right Now, It’s Like a Force Field)

  8. You Really Got a Probe in Me ( You Really Got a Hold on Me )

  9. Yes I Really Want to Hurt You (Do You Really Want to Hurt Me)

  10. Sweet Child Laborer of Mine (by Newt Gingrich) (Sweet Child Laborer of Mine)

#RepublicanSongs from other tweeps:

  1. @TheNewDeal: Love in an Car Elevator (Love in an Elevator)

  2. @GOPUnplugged: Single Ladies (Put a Probe in It) (Single Ladies (Put a RIng on It))

  3. @TCBGP:Singing in the Bain (Singing in the Rain)

  4. @LLLGeorge: She’s Having My Baby (Even If She Doesn’t Want to…) (Having My Baby)

  5. @rini6: Sympathy for the Devil

  6. @comeonnoles If Hating U Is Wrong I Don’t Wanna Be Right (If Loving You is Wrong I Don’t Wanna be Right)

  7. @DarwinSelection Rove Will Keep Us Together (Love Will Keep Us Together)

  8. @JacksonRage Simple Twist of Facts (SImple Twist of Fate)

  9. @PatrickECoole Give War a Chance (Give Peace a Chance)

  10. @RHalper (OK, I admit it! He’s my uncle! But there was no nepotism involved here. We’re just genetically prone to pun.) Whiter Shade of Shale (Whiter Shade of Pale)

  11. Plus this BONUS! @LesHugTX retweeted @RafalcaRomney: Will The Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up (feat. Eminem) (the Real Slim Shady) and the great video I posted above!

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