Linda Ronstadt: Impeach Bush 'Right Away'

1970s songbird Linda Ronstadt, best known for her torch-song style and mellow ballads, is working overtime these days trying to persuade her fellow Arizonans that it's time to dump President Bush "right away."

In an interview broadcast on Saturday with WABC Radio's Mark Simone, Ronstadt was in the middle of explaining why she prefers living in Arizona to Los Angeles or New York, when she added one caveat:

"The politics are very conservative here and I'm not conservative. I'm having a hard time sometimes convincing people that we need to vote for a new president," she offered.

When Simone begged to differ, the singer insisted: "We need a different president right away, I think. I think we should impeach this one [rather than wait for] the next election."

Asked if she could support Sen. John Kerry despite his admission that he committed war crimes in Vietnam, Ronstadt told Simone, "I don't know about that. He might be a little more understanding of what these guys [U.S. GIs in Iraq] are going through."

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