The Naked Cowboy, a strapping guitar player and New York City fixture known for busking in his underpants, big hat and boots, wants a White House showdown.
Robert John Burck, on his website nakedcowboy.com, has put the word out that he will be joining the 2012 US presidential race.
"America needs a president who will stand up for America and protect its language, its borders, and most importantly, its culture," Burck, a 40-year-old conservative, said in a statement on his website.
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He said America needed a president "who seeks to empower the people and to allow the free market to determine value, not a president intent on empowering government and misappropriating the resources of the productive class".
"My entire platform and all of my policies and decisions will be organised so as to achieve a much smaller, fiscally responsible, decentralised federal government, a robust economy run strictly on free market principles, and the strongest national defence on Earth," he said.
Burck, who unsuccessfully ran for mayor of New York in 2009, said he would be hosting a press conference regarding his presidential bid in Times Square on Wednesday afternoon local time.
