Finally, I'd be able to quit my private industry job to sign up with the United Nations Occupation Authority which Hillary would of course bring in, after the Black Helicopter Force had secured the nation for the Humanitarian Reform Corps.

Then, out of all the wealth and property appropriated from rich corporations, the top 10% of wealth holders, and of course, the right wing megachurches, we could build magnanimous re-education facilities.

Into these re-education facilities we of the UNOA-HRC would place the moron Republican authoritarian robots who foolishly gave such power to Chairwoman Hillary and who were quickly rounded up and detained as 'questionably oriented residents' and held forever.

...you're rooting for {President Hillary} to become the next leader of the "Cultural Revolution" like China's. How many millions died in that grand experiment?
-- shooter242

Oh, well, you see, you Republicans did such a great job at destroying the previous Constitutional and cultural restraints on government authority and democratic control of government that under the True Leadership of New Caesar Hillary Clinton, we of the United Nations Occupation Authority intend to reduce the nation's population from 300 million down to about 10 million specifically chosen ethnically mixed and sexual orientation diverse individuals, whose impact on the environment will be minimal.

We will, of course, allow excess individuals such as yourself a wide variety of life-ending options from which to choose.

These "pundits" all seem to be seeking a Ronald Reagan simulant android who will swagger around a bit, throw out pithy phrases, vow to bomb the hell out of some brown people unapologetically, cut taxes for awesome rich people, declare it will no longer tolerate lazy people of suggested ethnic backgrounds, and then throw the pundits over a chair and hump them until the pundits cry "Morning! Morning! Morning in America!!!"

I think it's about time we deal with this crap head on. Let all of us mildly reasonable types band together to hire a suitable actor who will ideally embody the faux masculinism etc. of the Ideal Republican Candidate, and to run for office on a ticket of pure pundit / beltway weenie fantasy.

Thus we can get all the pundits to salivate on air about Strong McManly's latest powerful chin thrust, and we can get all the right wing bloggers to swoon as McManly vows to teach all of them there terrists a lesson or two.

It's crucial to pick both the right actor and the right script, but I think we could do it.

If we keep it up, we could probably split off a good chunk of Republican voters for a literally fictitious candidate, rather than the standard fake-sincere drag show by the actual Republican candidates.

Strong McManly 2008: He's The Man You've Been Wanting.

"Strong McManly 2008: He's The Man You've Been Wanting."
My daughter and I would have to nominate Ben Affleck to play that part (but is he old enough? well, maybe in 2012)... after seeing him on Bill Maher's show a few weeks ago. Not only does he "look" the part, he is also well-informed.

-- Karen M

Karen, while I think Ben Affleck would do a fantastic job, combining the rugged chinly looks with his own satirical insights into what these guys are looking for, I think Ben has already been spoiled for our purposes by having said liberal things to outrage the rightwing PR machine.

I think it would be better to find a talented "nobody," who hasn't made the Fux Nooz scandal sheets yet.

"Strong McManly" - nicely done!

More slogans he can use:

Strong McManly 2008: Beating Off All Comers!
Strong McManly 2008: If He Can't Do It, Then ... Screw You!
--Anonymous

What can I say? I completely failed to think of that line.

Pooter242:

Could it be that history is shaped by the aggressive use of force?

Yes. History has often been greatly, and on occasion completely, shaped by the aggressive use of force.

Yet this has absolutely nothing to do with the subject being discussed -- fake macho poseur Republican idiots and the pundits with weird, freakish homo-erotic man-crushes on them.

Nor does it have to do with the Republicans' shrinking minority of an underwear-wetting base who believes a Moozlim is creeping at them from under every bed, yet these are the same people who are proud and aggressive in defense of their own stupidity.

Luckily, the embarrassment of the Iraq failure has revealed the putative semi-fascists in the Republican party and the pseudo-intellectuals who made their case as the exact opposite of the Manly Warriors they claimed to be.

Now a great majority of Americans seem them as they are: as weak, militarily incompetent cowards.

The US' right wingers are absolute and abject failures at the one endeavor for which they were (wrongly) entrusted: martial virtues.

Like others I'm sorry that it took the horror visited upon Iraq to reveal the cowardly lions for who they were, but I'm glad that Americans finally woke up from that nonsense.

And, as a bonus, it's driving the US' right wingers and their worshipping pundits nuttier and nuttier as they psychologically break down in realizing that no one believes their Manly Warrior Claims anymore.