You gotta love this. It’s a great example of the circular logic of cultural-conservative nuttiness. Here’s the how it works:
1. Conservatives see Geena Davis as a female president in the new TV show, Commander in Chief
2. They assume (without ANY evidence) that it’s obviously a nefarious Hollywood liberal conspiracy to pave the way for Hillary ’08
3. Finally, they ridicule Hollywood for coming up with such a dumb conspiracy, even though there was never any conspiracy to begin with! “Further evidence that Hollywood is out of touch,” they scream.
This is what the TV industry thinks. They don’t view us as being rational actors, able to vote for a President based on our own reasoning, but instead as sheep to be herded and trained.
Oy.
And what’s more is I know for a fact that Marshall Wittman was once a member of the Federalist Society!
At least it wasn’t David Allan Coe, though, right?
You’ve got The Moose all wrong. He’s not some lunatic war-monger, he just knows how the American electorate works. He’s not by any means advocating thoughtless declarations of war. He’s talking politics, not policy.
The Moose has a theory: the most hawkish candidate always wins. But to espouse this theory, you don’t need to start wars. You simply have to talk like you’re going to start wars during the general election campaign. And by the way, none of what you say here contradicts the Moose’s orginal point– not that the Iraq war, in retrospect, was a good idea (he doesn’t really seem to take that stand by proxy in endorsing Toby Keith)– but that had Toby Keith opened up the Dem Nat’l Convention, Kerry would’ve won.
He wasn’t only a Federalist Society guy, he was a bloody Cato Institute and Christian Coalition guy. So maybe he’s still working toward his liberal bona fides, but I still say he’s got a point.