When rumors swirled two years ago that now-President Barack Obama’s campaign would be sponsoring BAM Racing’s #49 entry at Pocono, we feared that the day might finally be here. Fortunately, those were only rumors. The day was put off.

Until now.

Texas governor Rick Perry has announced his campaign will be sponsoring Bobby Labonte’s #71 car for the April 18th race at Texas Motor Speedway. The campaign is paying $225,000 to be on board Labonte’s race car for just one race.

For an image of the car, click here.

Now the floodgates are opened, leaving us to wonder where, if ever, it will end.

We know where it starts, and that’s the bad campaign analogies, such as the one Governor Perry used at the announcement:

“Bobby Labonte’s driving represents Texas’ strong economy.”

Um, okay.

But now where does it end? What if another politician decides sponsoring a race car is a good idea? What about another? And another? Will we soon we watching a parade of campaign ads as opposed to a corporate parade?

Will the world of NASCAR soon be divided into two parties: Red and Blue? Will NASCAR become like Hollywood, with the drivers giving crappy political advise as opposed to driving their race cars?

Will this be what finally sends NASCAR off the deep end?

We don’t know the answers to those questions right now. But what we do know is that the day we have dreaded is here.

Politics and NASCAR: It’s finally happening.

It was 6:00 P.M. at the time I was writing this, and I didn’t have anything to do. I was on Facebook and decided to take the quiz, “Which NASCAR Driver Are You?”.

Except, as a little twist, I decided to take the quiz answering the questions as if I were President Barack Obama. For kicks and giggles.

The first question was, “Which personality do you have?” Given the choices, I had to say “stuck up”. Really quick, for you Obama fans, among the other choices were “homoish”(not a real word), “stupid”, and “complanitory”(also not a real word). It could’ve been worse.

The second question asked, “If you are going to have a family and get married, what kind of a spouse will you have?” Among the choices were “None, too old”, “Not married”, and “Co-worker spouse”. The latter would have worked, I suppose. But the best choice was “Gold-Digger Spouse”.

The third question begged, “How much money, on a scale of 1 to 6(with 1 being the highest, and 6 the lowest), do you make in a year?” Obama, as president, makes $400,000 a year. It’s not millions, but probably enough to put him at a “2″.

The fourth question wondered, “What is the color of your car?” Obama gets chauffeured around in a black limousine, so obviously, the answer is “black”.

The fifth question was, “What is your attitude about life?” Seeing his position on gay marriage, the answer might have been “Gays rule”. But, seeing as Obama himself is not attracted to men(that we know of), the best choice was “I’m better than everyone!”

The final question asked was, “On a scale of 1 to 6(1 being the best), where would you likely finish in any competition” I’m guessing that the presidential race and the Nobel Peace Prize are both competitions, and he won them both. Obviously, the answer is “1″.

I hit Finish and anxiously awaited the result. I waited for just a moment, and finally, I got the result. It read:

“You are Dale Earnhardt Jr. You are the most popular.”

Who would have thought. If Barack Obama was a NASCAR driver, he’d be Dale Earnhardt Jr.

The quiz that was used to get this stat was created by an anonymous Facebook user, and NOT by the writer.