JEFFERSON CITY - In one of the most ridiculous contradictions in recent memory, Jay Nixon wants people to show photo identification to purchase “Hannah Montana” tickets but opposes requiring Missourians to show photo identification in order to vote.

During a media meltdown yesterday in Kansas City, Nixon said he has reached an agreement that will require people to show ID when purchasing tickets for Disney’s Hannah Montana show, whose star is the daughter of “Achy Breaky Heart” crooner Billy Ray Cyrus. Nixon’s crackdown is ludicrous in light of his longtime opposition to legislation that would have required Missouri voters to present voter ID at the polls to protect the integrity of our elections system.

Nixon’s grandstanding, which is simply a cut and paste display of previous efforts by the attorney general in Arkansas, is also at odds with Democrat dogma. By requiring photo ID for the Hannah Montana tickets, Nixon is denying “thousands of Missourians” without ID an opportunity to purchase tickets if Democrats’ claims about requiring voter identification at the polls are to be believed.

“It is disturbing and almost laughable that Jay Nixon believes that it’s more important to protect the integrity of a Disney show than to protect the integrity of the voting process in Missouri. It also seems that his willingness to deny children tickets because their parents or even grandparents do not have photo IDs is no different than Democrat claims that requiring a photo ID to vote prevents people from casting a ballot,” said Paul Sloca, communications director for the Missouri Republican Party. “It is ludicrous for Nixon to politically grandstand about Hannah Montana while rejecting the much bigger and real issue of voter fraud. Where exactly are Jay Nixon’s priorities?”

In honor of Nixon’s ridiculous double-standard on behalf of Hanna Montana, the Missouri Republican Party offers up this little ditty sung to the tune of “Achy Breaky Heart”:

Jay’s Achy Breaky Truth

You can tell the world
that you never was absurd,
you can burn the truth up if you want.
You can tell your friends,
ID for Hannah is a win,
but ID at the polls don’t seem to hunt.

You can tell your lips,
Let’s just shoot off from the hip!
You can tell your brain,
to sort this out.
You can tell your eyes,
to cover up your lies,
folks won’t like you when you cuss and scream and shout.

But don’t tell the truth,
the achy breaky truth,
You don’t think that folks would understand.
And if you tell the truth,
the achy breaky truth,
it might blow up and kill your plan.

You can tell your Ma,
you sometimes break the law,
when you ride to fundraisers in your car.
Or tell your brother now,
where you went and how,
but don’t admit you stretched the law too far.

Or tell your security,
tell anything you please,
yourself already knows you’re not O.K.
Or you can tell your eyes
to watch out for your mind,
it clearly walked out on you yesterday.

But don’t tell the truth,
the achy breaky truth,
You don’t think that folks would understand.
And if you tell the truth,
the achy breaky truth,
it might blow up and kill your plan.

Don’t tell the truth,
the achy breaky truth,
You don’t think that folks would understand.
And if you tell the truth,
the achy breaky truth,
it might blow up and kill your plan.