“That’s what I want people to do. Get up, get out, and vote. Now, if they had any brains, they would hit the “D” button. I mean, c’mon, look at these Republican knuckleheads. It’s like a goddamned clown car with more goofy ass clowns coming out each week. They’ll probably be having their damn primary though the summer at this rate (This interview took place in late January. The Republican presidential primary currently still has four main contenders for the nomination). It’s a fucking joke. I hate Republicans.”
“To me, the guy that makes the most sense out of all those guys is Rick Santorum,” Mustaine said. “He just looked like he could be a really cool president, kind of like a JFK kind of guy.” Indeed, Santorum is Catholic, as was JFK. Mustaine also clarified that he believed U.S. Pres. Barack Obama was not born in America, while denying that he was a “birther,” further proving that Dave Mustaine doesn’t know what words mean and that we shouldn’t take any of his political opinions seriously and should just drown it out to the riff from “Hangar 18.”