McCain Finally Gets Permission For Campaign Song: The Music From Cialis TV Spot

Well, Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has finally gotten permission to use a popular tune as his official campaign song. In recent months, McCain has been publicly slapped down by John Mellancamp (formerly known as John Cougar Mellancamp and before that, John Cougar, and before that, The Artist Known As John Cougar) for using "Pink Houses" and "My Country" in campaign appearances. Then, McCain was shunned by the 70's Swedish dance group ABBA when he tried to use their song "Take A Chance" as his campaign song (Question of the Day: Shouldn't the likes of ABBA be GRATEFUL that ANYONE wants to even LISTEN to their anachronistic, disco ball-spinning, leisure suit-wearing, mullet hairdo-wearing CRAP, let alone USE IT AS THEIR CAMPAIGN SONG???). At any rate, after being rejected by ABBA, the McCain camp was grasping at straws. Some close to the Senator said they didn't need a campaign song.... Penny-pinchers within the campaign thought they should try to hire the (now grown) children who were once conned into singing the backing vocals to the Pink Floyd classic "Another Brick in the Wall" for free... Another line of thought was that they should play it safe and simply cough up the licensing fee to use Pat Boone's version of "Tutti Fruiti." But now, in the wake of the New York Times story hinting at a potential sex scandal involving McCain, a perfect campaign song has emerged: the theme music from the Cialis TV commercial. (CUE MUSIC: Funky guitar riff... ANNOUNCER: When you're in the mood to run for president, and the time is not quite right, try Cialis... Because with Cialis, you can wait until you're 72 years old to run for president...)'

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