The N a ked 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 has confirmed on his website 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.
He also 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 there sources 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 added.
Burck unsuccessfully ran for mayor of New York in 2009.
He is to host a press conference regarding his presidential bid in Times Square on Wednesday afternoon (US time).
Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/10/05/3030056.htm?section=justin
