Not because we’d vote for him. He’s delusional. And possibly a bigot.

But Jimmy McMillan has injected some sorely needed sideburns into the New York gubernatorial race.

McMillan is the founder, leader and bad speller behind the Rent is 2 “DAMN” High party. Its platform: The rent. And how damn high it is.

He made a national splash on Monday, when he took part in a televised debate featuring established candidates Andrew Cuomo and Carl Paladino.

Curiously wearing gloves and facial hair that looks like it should feature in an 18th-century duel, McMillan plugged for the little guy.

“My main job is to provide a roof over your head, food on the table and money in your pocket,” McMillan said. “Listen! A child’s stomach just growled. Did you hear it? Gotta listen like me.”

Among other things McMillan addressed: his work as a male stripper, being forced to drink his own urine, and the calming effect of martial arts.

It was good stuff. Even likely winner Cuomo noted, “I agree with Jimmy. The rent is too damn high.”

McMillan is not exactly an Obama-style uniter. On one website, the 64-year-old retired postal worker and Vietnam vet expressly tells non-New York City residents of New York state that he doesn’t need their vote.

Why? Because he doesn’t have the “recourses” to campaign there.

And then, in an effort to soothe hurt feelings, he publishes a picture of upstate New York with an “X” drawn through it.

He’d fit right in to downtown Toronto.

First, he’s progressive enough to make the NDP blanch.

For instance, here’s his stand on gay marriage: “If you want to marry a shoe, I’ll marry you.”

And on transgenderism: “THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY FOR YEARS HAS BEEN / HAVE BEEN MAKING THE DECISION WHO IS TO BE MALE AND WHO IS TO BE FEMALE IT’S TIME FOR THIS ATTITUDE IN THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY TO COME TO AN END.”

Oh, yes. It’s in all-caps in the original.

No, McMillan really wants to talk about the rent. And it’s highness.

What’s his cure? Lower all rents immediately and by executive fiat. He wants rent frozen, lowered and capped – which is the sort of move that would make Lenin shake his head and say, “I’m all for blood in the streets, but let’s stick to reality, comrades.”

Depending on how you read his policy pronouncement, maximum rent in Manhattan would cap out at either $550 or $750 a month.

Dibs on the penthouse at the Trump Tower!

Strangely, McMillan’s rent isn’t that bad – $800 (U.S.) a month for a one-bedroom in Brooklyn.

But the point is that he’s worried about you. And your rent. And being crazy about it.

We could use a little crazy up here, too.