Rocker-reality TV star Meat Loaf backs Romney

There are enthusiastic political endorsements and then there are those that are so raucous they belong in another category. The support Mitt Romney got from singer and reality TV star Meat Loaf was, well, like a bat out of hell.

"Storm clouds (have) come over the United States," Meat Loaf said Thursday, according to several news accounts. "There are storms brewing through China, through Asia, through everywhere. ... The other night when President Barack Obama, God bless him, said to Mitt Romney, 'The Cold War is over.' I have never heard such a thing in my life."

Meat Loaf, making his first political endorsement, said Romney will "stand tall in this country and fight the storm and bring the United States back to what it should be." During his stem-winder, Meat Loaf praised Romney's "backbone" before encouraging the crowd in Defiance, Ohio, to go out and vote.

Meat Loaf is a rocker who did a stint on Celebrity Apprentice, getting into a heated argument with actor Gary Busey on the reality TV show last year. His best-known album, Bat Out of Hell, sold 34 million copies worldwide and came out in 1977.

The Romney rally, by the way, also included country singers Big and Rich and Randy Owen of the band Alabama. At the end, the performers joined Romney on stage to sing America the Beautiful.