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Last week, Jonah Goldberg wrote a column titled, "We Need a Hero" and argued that an appealing, self-loathing Hispanic could lead the GOP out of the wilderness. Now Nicole Wallace, who did such an awesome job getting Sarah Palin prepped for all those interviews, is also in search of a hero:
What we need is a leader who matches the moment and transcends the narrow debates about ideology—not because they’re unimportant, but because they are un-resolvable in a media-refereed vacuum. It’s also worth keeping in mind the words of Bonnie Tyler when we imagine the task at hand for the Republican Party: Late at night I toss and turn and dream of what I need. I need a hero.
Gag. If wingnuts want dispel the notion that they’re mindless authoritarians with Daddy issues waiting to goosestep behind the Next Great Hero-Leader, they probably should stop writing columns about how ideas don’t matter and they just need to find the Next Great Hero-Leader. (Did they learning nothing from W.?)
Anyway, Nicole — what does this Hero-Leader sound like?
Our next leader must be able to talk about the benefits of capitalism and competition as vehicles for economic opportunity and a better quality of life for all Americans. He or she must restore faith in government without getting stuck in the old debate of small vs. large government, but instead focus on the benefits of a competent, frugal, accountable government that is as mindful in spending taxpayers’ dollars as American families are in spending their own hard-earned income.
Hmmm. Hasn’t someone’s already used that riff?
The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.
Oh, well. Nicole has someone else in mind, anyway.
One Republican I know suggested that actor Gary Sinise might be our savior.
Brilliant!
Never graduated from college, check. No political experience, check. Loves to play dress-up soldier but never served, check. Knows his way around a hair and makeup trailer, check.
Wait — don’t Republicans have one of those already?
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The desired Hero-Leader sounds a lot like the current president. Bunch of sore losers there.
Gary Sinese is a disgusting creep.
Yea, he PLAYED a Nam vet in a movie and it changed him forever. Kiss my ass.
Hey, I like CSI-NY. It’s one of my guilty pleasures.
And how many Americans are in debt up to their eyeballs because they’re so mindful of their spending? Five grand for the biggest teebee in the world? No problem, I’ll just put it on the plastic. Give. Me. A. Break.
And what Raven said.
Well, the Rs seem to be establishing a tradition of pols who only act the part.
Ya know, when I was a kid my hero was the Lone Ranger. And Hopalong Cassidy. And Davy Crockett. And Wyatt Earp. Then I grew up.
Yes! A hero is what we need! Someone like George W. Bush in a flight suit. But only not George W. Bush. Because Bonnie Tyler sang about what I’m feeling now:
“Once upon a time I was falling in love
But now I’m only falling apart
There’s nothing I can do
A total eclipse of the heart
Once upon a time there was light in my life
But now there’s only love in the dark
Nothing I can say
A total eclipse of the heart”
Idiots.
The only thing I’ve ever seen Sinise in was that CSI program, which I never watched after the first time or two because of Sinise’s character. I didn’t like him and I thought Sinise was a wooden actor. Now I know why. Breeding tells, doesn’t it?
and Josh Randall
Hey, you dissin’ my taste? *g*
Definitely did like that hog’s leg. I forgot Yancey Derringer and his pal Pahoo with his 8 gauge shotgun.
I don’t know from Gary Sinise. Is it contagious? Outside the Hoosier state? Hoosier daddy?
Did they learning nothing from W.?
No. This has been another edition of ….
That is the problem. Conservatives never grow up.
This was a great one that didn’t last
Under that serape!
And, of course, Paladin. Made all the better when you watch Boone in Hombre.
Don’t remember that one. Ever notice that all these characters were centered around unique weapons? Silver bullets, derringers, hog’s leg, etc.
CSI-NY is on Spike-TV right now, for your viewing pleasure.
Right fuckin’ on. Great flick.
Mexican bad guy: Hombre, you put a hole in me.
Pahoo was a baaaad dude. *g*
Like it says, only 13 episodes. He had a great dog that he pretty much made fend for itself. Very well done but that’s what you’d expect from Sam.
Geeevveee us jor guns and we let you goooo.
It sounds like she’s describing Obama.
Sam sent his personal edit copy of The Wild Bunch to Filmex in 77 (78?) when the copy they had turned out to be damaged. Lot more violent than the released film. Audience loved it.
Frederic March was a great crotchity ol’ geezer.
dang!
Yeah, we just need an historically popular, charismatic minority to preach tax cuts for the rich and torture.
I don’t even think he would last as long at the Law & Order guy that Tweety used to swoon over (forgot his name)!!
My hero was Sabu in ”The Thief of Baghdad.”
Still is!
Audra Favor: I can’t imagine eating a dog and not thinking anything of it.
John Russell: You even been hungry, lady? Not just ready for supper. Hungry enough so that your belly swells?
Audra Favor: I wouldn’t care how hungry I got. I know I wouldn’t eat one of those camp dogs.
John Russell: You’d eat it. You’d fight for the bones, too.
Audra Favor: Have you ever eaten a dog, Mr. Russell?
John Russell: Eaten one and lived like one.
Audra Favor: Dear me
That’s quite the story. Filmex was looking for a replacement and couldn’t find one. Called Sam’s office and he was in Hungary or somewhere filming. His office called him and he had his copy sent over that afternoon. Guy got up before it screened and told how they had gotten the film.
*G*
alright Blue Texan, I waded all the way through the Wallace piece – and no where, not once does she seem to indicate a clue as to message vs messenger.
goody :D
Gotta go back to the cesspool.
Namaste
Yeah, I guess John McCain was insufficiently heroic.
I thought Joe the Plumber was their hero…
Oh, wait, he quit.
Well, anyone who eats their hamburgers with yellow mustard oughta do.
o/` Na na na na na na na na…LEADER! o/`
That include Chinese mustard?
Late at night I toss and turn and dream of what I need. I need a hero.
hey lady, when you’re done dry-humping the pillow try to get some sleep. you need it.
Oh, no, no, no, nuthin furrin’ sounding. Only all-American French’s mustard.
Oh, wait….
Didn’t Gary Sinise play Harry Truman once?
Yes.
And George Wallace.
now Blue Texan has me gigglin’
- maybe we should provide them with a “charismatic leader” – a deeply planted operative. allowing him or her to ‘come out’ once they’ve pinned their last remaining hopes and dollars on him/her – finishing them off once and for all. the dreaded reverse Bob Roberts as it were.
Nicolle should stay away from the subject of public accountability for taxpayer dollars. Someone may just decide to take a closer look at how public housing dollars in Miami and in the Florida State Technolgy office have been spent in the last ten years or so. THAT could prove very embarassing to Nicolle and her husband.
But I wouldn’t pick on Sinise too much. He could be an innocent victim in all of this. As far as I know, he hasn’t demonstrated any interest in running for national office.
Tina Turner’s “We Don’t Need Another Hero” keeping playing in my head :) unless it’s cbl2’s idea of one i think both the R’s and everyone else would do well to listen to the song.
Has Sarah Pallin lost her spell over the GOOPERs?
This just in!!! Single Payer universal health care is dead. Obama and Congress are pleased as punch that the medical lobby is willing to cut costs and this is the reform and the change we can believe in. We can only hope that what has become a collosal joke of an adminstration is one term.
@eCAHNomics I like CSI NY too!
Phew! I like Gary Sinise and I hope he isn’t gooper ish.
Loved him in Apollo 13. Maybe they need him to do the forensics on a dead political party…
Crocodile Dundee’s knife?