Exclusive: Heart's Nancy Wilson responds to McCain campaign's use of 'Barracuda' at Republican convention

Typical Republicans……steal something without permission or payment.

If the McCain/Palin team did not properly secure permission to use the song, it shouldn’t have been used. Period. Doesn’t matter if McCain, Obama or your average person on the street – if you didn’t get permission, you can’t use it. I like JK Rowling’s writing, but I can’t start posting it on my website b/c it’s a copyright violation. You’d think the RNC would have learned from “borrowing” from Mellencamp & Bon Jovi.

Get over it! Talk about politicians playing politics about things… which is what they do… But I’m tired of artists getting bent out of shape over a politician using “their” song. Unless it is copywrited to not ever be used by another human, “GET OVER IT”!

I have always loved Heart, and still do. I find it hideous that McCain and Palin didn’t even bother to ask them if they could use their song. That tells me they have some serious ethical issues that need to be addressed. I mean how many people would not be aware of that, and since most of us pretty much know that McCain is not that young, and Sarah isn’t exactly Einstein you would still think their advisors would have warned them of a little thing about copyrights, but apparently they were too concerned that Sarah might go rogue at a moments notice to pay attention to everything? I am glad to see the Wilson sisters didn’t just let the whole issue go either, and as far as I am concerned as a female voter, Sarah does not represent me at all. She stands for putting women backward, and I am not talking about her stance abortion here at all either, but mostly the fact that I have yet to hear anything that resembles an intelligent, well thought out speech come out of her mouth even once. I most especially am not at all impressed with her association with the “tenther’s,” or any of the other teabag nuts that want to secede from the Union. I can’t believe we have this woman who didn’t even finish her governorship turn into such a folk hero.