Danish Politician Poses for Campaign Posters Wearing a Cowboy Hat, Gun Holster...and That's It

John Erik Wagner thought he would "try something different" after failing to get elected for 10 years

If American political campaigns looked anything like this, we're almost certain voting turnout would skyrocket. Then of course you run the risk of seeing someone like Mitch McConnell posing like this and just…

NO. STOP THAT THOUGHT RIGHT NOW, BRAIN.

John Erik Wagner is running to be Denmark's next prime minister, but if you were to guess what he was promoting just based on his campaign posters you might say…Grinder's next spokesman?

The 51-year-old, who looks amazing for his age, by the way, has been trying to win the prime minister race for 10 years. So for his third time around, he decided to "try something different."

"Other candidates' posters are boring—just like passport photos, so I wanted mine to surprise people," he told The Guardian. "It helps to look good if you want to be in government and people say I have a nice body, so I thought, ‘This is me, here I am.' I wanted to get my name out there."

Mission accomplished. His campaign technique is attracting attention from all over the world and we're not going to lie, we kind of love him for going balls to the wall with his strategy. No pun intended.

He also has a poster featuring him decked out in a fancy suit next to his naked cowboy look as if to say: "This is how I'll look behind the desk, but we all know what's really underneath the suit."

We're sure he already has a campaign slogan, but if he doesn't, may we offer up one?

"A politician in the office but a cowboy in the bed."

You're welcome, world.

Did you want a closer look at Mr. Wagner's campaign poster? Oh, OK:

He is just glistening.

Besides the pro-body image message, what else is Wagner trying to accomplish should he win the election?

"I know what it is like to be out of work," he says, "I'm a clothes designer by trade but I don't have any work right now. So I want a job. I want to go into government to get work. And help other people who don't have work."

If his racy campaign is really successful, we shudder at what that means for U.S. politicians when they decide to run for anything.

Don't think about Jeb Bush naked wearing a cowboy hat. Don't think about Jeb Bush naked wearing…

….

Damn it!

'Scuse us. We have to go scrub between our ears with bleach and a wire brush.