For a Thousand O'Malley-Haters

Despite having helped the Democrats win back states with his Win Back Your State PAC, despite being the biggest cheerleader for the Democratic Party and against Donald Trump, and despite having earned a second chance to run for President in 2020 because of the simple fact that no one gave him much of a first chance in 2016, Martin O'Malley remains a joke among Washington pundits obsessed with "diversity" (racial and ethnic, rather than philosophical, differences) and under the sway of Betomania (more about that later), and he's still seen as someone to make fun of simply for thinking about another presidential run in 2020. 

We'll show them.  We'll show them all.  And if I may do so, and I will, I'd like to propose another song for O'Malley to use at a campaign event - namely, his 2020 campaign victory party.

If - no, when - he is elected President of the United States on November 3, 2020, O'Malley should play Jethro Tull's "For a Thousand Mothers" as the introductory music to his victory speech at his Election Night party.  The song, which closes Tull's second album, was written by Tull leader Ian Anderson as a rejoinder to all of his relatives - including his own parents - who said he'd never make it as a rock musician.

"Steve," you're saying, "that is so lame!  You might as well have O'Malley play one of his favorite Irish folk songs on his guitar!"  No, I'd rather save that for the inauguration.

"For a Thousand Mothers" is the perfect song to play in response to the pundits, the party elders, and the haters and naysayers who all laughed when O'Malley said he "just might" run for President again in 2020 or who laughed when he ran for President in 2016.  It's nasty, it's powerful, and it rocks - and as it comes from a heavy progressive British folk-rock band from the sixties and seventies, the sort of band that critics and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame board members like to dismiss outright. It's perfect as a response to all the people who have dismissed O'Malley.  And it's indeed politically incorrect - because, when you get right down to it, here I am talking up another classic-rock song from some pasty-faced British white guys for O'Malley to use in his campaign.  Noted pundit and hip-hop fan Ari Melber might have a problem with this. Screw Ari Melber.

What sweet revenge it will be against those who say Martin O'Malley will never win the Presidency after he's won it, saying he'll never become the most powerful man in the world after he's gained that power.  It'll be they who are wrong, and for them, here's a song:

By the way, you might remember that Jethro Tull had a guitar player named Martin!  (Martin Barre.)

I can't wait to get back at the lot of those thousands of mothers - I ain't talking about parents with two X chromosomes! - who say O'Malley can't win the White House!  Happy new year.