[steplock]

Right! Bring on more sluts and whores - male & female!

That will make the GOP look more like "the heart of America" won't it?

[hchutch]

Why do I get the feeling that some conservative just want the VOTES of South Park Republicans/Republican Party Reptiles and otherwise want us to just shove off for the next two years?

[Protagoras]

That will make the GOP look more like "the heart of America" won't it?

The GOP already looks like the Democratic Party, why not go all the way?

[KDD]

Indeed.

[Wallace T.]

Your sarcasm is entirely appropriate. Hiring a bunch of trashy entertainers to appeal (so the country club wing of the GOP hopes) to blue collar whites negates the Republican Party as being the stronghold of traditional values. It is bad enough that conservatives have been mostly shut out of major speaking roles at the upcoming convention. To have well known actors and entertainers whose performances and/or personal lives are scandalous play prominent roles at the GOP convention will not endear the party to conservative Christians, a major bulwark of the core Republican vote. Just because, say, Jessica Simpson likes the President's stance on Arab terrorism, she is not qualified to represent the GOP before the world.

If we are looking at a close Presidential election this year, both parties had better work to encourage a high level of participation by their core constituencies. It is all too easy for conservative Christians to revert to their pre-1978 apathy if the Bush-Cheney ticket is seen as only minimally different from the Kerry-Edwards one. Having some sluttish singer given top billing at the upcoming convention will encourage the "there ain't a dime's worth of difference" mentality.