The 2007 Chevy Silverado is the Right Choice for Ohio's Next Senator

If you have watched a football game at any point over the last month, then a conservative estimate would be that you've seen John Mellencamp's Chevy truck ads more than 10,000 times. I've seen several versions of the ads, and while they haven't persuaded me to buy a Chevy truck, they have convinced me to endorse the 2007 Silverado in today's United States Senate race.

Unlike either Mike DeWine or Sherrod Brown, the Silverado comes standard with a Vortec V-6 engine and the Stabilitrak vehicle stability system, not to mention a one ton payload capacity. In contrast, Mike DeWine is the kind of gap-toothed ignoramus who has made Ohio politicians a national laughingstock for almost a century. His opponent, Sherrod Brown, is a limousine liberal married to Plain Dealer columnist Connie Schultz, who won a Pulitzer Prize last year for consistently offering readers columns that are a unique blend of condescension, maudlin self-pity, and misandry.

Some skeptics will dismiss the idea of electing the Silverado by pointing out that it is an inanimate object. That is true, but I ask those skeptics to remember that this kind of disability did not prevent John Glenn from serving the Buckeye State with distinction during his four terms in the United States Senate.

In addition to all that, Mellencamp's ads make it clear that the Silverado stands tall for such bedrock American values as the working man (truck yeah!), the Boy Scouts (truck yeah!), civil rights (truck yeah!), babies (truck yeah!), cowboys (truck yeah!), Katrina devastation (truck yeah!), 9/11 images (truck yeah!) and, in the version that appears below, football (truck yeah!)



Ohio could do worse than the 2007 Silverado, and if past experience is any guide, it probably will. As others have said before me, you're either with the Silverado, or you're with the terrorists.