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Hero worship

By Michelle Malkin • May 12, 2009 09:32 AM

I’ve been seeing a lemming-like increase in hand-wringing articles about the need for a GOP “hero.”

The latest comes from McCain/Bush flack Nicolle Wallace in “The Daily Beast” — Tina Brown’s liberal salon sprinkled with acceptable, non-conservative Beltway Republicans who swallow false premises whole.

Wallace parrots the line that the Republican Party needs an “effective communicator” who can match Obama’s “eloquence.”

Her genius, never-before-thought-of proposal: Get an actor!

Wallace floats Gary Sinise as the next “hero.”

Yes, Sinise is an attractive celebrity who has done fabulous work supporting our military.

But this makes him qualified to run for the highest office in the land and lead the GOP…how?!

The same people who derided Sarah Palin — whose executive experience outmatched the current man sitting in the White House — are now looking to Hollywood actors with zero political experience and unknown commitments to conservative principles?

Ask conservatives in California how the eloquent actor strategy is working out there now. Or ask the architects of the Fred Thompson campaign.

Acting experience and eloquence are not enough. If these party saviors think the lesson of Reagan is to turn politics into a casting call — find a shiny vessel first and worry about the contents later — the GOP is even more royally screwed than I thought.

As for Obama’s “eloquence,” it’s a sign of how out of touch these strategists are that they continue to accept that bogus premise.

What the GOP needs are more in-touch representatives who can communicate to the American people what an inarticulate, gaffetastic, wrong-headed politician Barack Obama really is (see the copious Hot Air archive of Ed Morrissey’s Obamateurisms of the Day).

Mimicking the Left’s idolatry isn’t the path to GOP salvation. It’s the path to permanent ruin.

The rebranders have it ass-backwards. The key isn’t rebranding the GOP. It’s rebranding Obama.

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#699560

On May 13th, 2009 at 9:10 am, md1964 said:

By the time 4 years rolls around, this 21st century Nazi Goverment, led by Der Furhrer Adolph Obama, and Vice Furhrer Pelosi, will have made America a Dictatorship with one party rule.

Big a Christian, Conservative, Tax paying, Fully Employed, Heterosexual, English Speaking America who think for themselves will be illegal, and probably lose their right to vote.
#699591

On May 13th, 2009 at 9:44 am, lgm said:

DBNinKY said (#88):

Several days ago, an LGM comment used the post script “Goldstein’s Agents.”

That’s a reference to the book 1984 by George Orwell. Anything that went wrong was attributed to agents of the mythical bad guy Goldstein (not coincidentally a Jewish name). During a “hate rally” the speaker announced a change of hatred. But why were there all those posters hating the old guy? “Goldstein’s agents have been here!”

MM style conservatives seem to me to act like this. For example, Bush proposed social security “private accounts” (their term) which were criticized. Republicans tried to rebrand the idea as “personal accounts” and blamed Democrats for the term “private accounts”.

He says he is a college math instructor. Does this mean he is enlisting his students to post for him?

I do all my own posts.

If so, isn’t this a violation of the site’s terms, as he would be circumventing the registration process for any number of unregistered posters to comment?

Another MM tactic: fantasize about something then get angry about it.
#699598

On May 13th, 2009 at 9:49 am, jangar said:

Virginia Patriot said:
Cheney 2012

Darth Vader for President

I wish

Damn straight!
#699650

On May 13th, 2009 at 10:32 am, DBNinKY said:

That’s a reference to the book 1984 by George Orwell.

I read 1984 in 1986 and recall much of it vividly, and I did not draw that analogy.

I do all my own posts.

Of course you do-

Another MM tactic: fantasize about something then get angry about it.

Isn’t that why you post here, to put out the most hateful of the Left’s talking points in order to draw commenters out in defense of what’s right?
#700107

On May 13th, 2009 at 4:34 pm, Snooper said:

The GOP just might want to be reminded what happens when REAL conservatives are placed on the ballot.

http://tinyurl.com/q85h5j

Ya never know.
#700996

On May 14th, 2009 at 7:32 pm, Lucifer Jones said:

Virginia Patriot said:
Cheney 2012

Darth Vader for President

I wish
Damn straight!

There was a Cheney-Valdemort bumper sticker 08 sticker. That brought my hopes up, but they were soon dashed. All we got was an antichrist.