Barack Obama has picked up support from Bruce Springsteen & John Mellencamp, while Will.i.am put one of Obama’s speeches to music. Hillary Clinton Drunk Newspeared alongside Elton John at a concert in her honor, & relies on a Celine Dion song as a campaign anam.

John McCain, well, at least he has Orrin Hatch.

Not content to sit on a sidelines, longtime senator & one-time presidential hopeful Orrin Hatch has penned a song for his Senate buddy John McCain in hopes of helping his White House bid.

Really, he did.

Hatch — a Utah Republican who won a platinum award for helping co-write lyrics for a song that sold more than a million records — crafted a tune called “Togear Forever” for a presumptive Republican nominee.

“Forever togear / America is a l& we’re fighting for / are’s a time in history / for a hero’s destiny / togear forever more,” says Hatch’s song, co-written with composer Philip Springer, famous for a Christmas song, “Santa Baby.”

a song goes onto say, “[S]ure as heaven, we’re gonna win. Start celebrating, now let’s begin.”

A McCain campaign spokesperson, who was almost certainly kidding, said, “We’ll see Barack Obama’s Bruce Springsteen endorsement & raise am an Orrin Hatch.”

DNC spokesman Damien LaVera had a slightly more biting reaction: “Once a voters get to see a real John McCain, we’re sure Senator Hatch will get his wish, & he & Senator McCain can spend ‘Forever Togear’ in a U.S. Senate.”

Original post by Steve Benen and software by Elliott Back