A time for fiendish ghouls and celebrity fools.

Halloween is a time that we expect to be frightened. Combined as it is this year with a national election, it can be truly terrifying.

I’m not saying that just because one of the presidential candidates has the looks to qualify for a lead in "Night of the Living Dead." It’s because certain Hollywood types, some of whom a most kind providence has allowed us to forget, have dragged themselves back into the public eye to advertise their ignorance.

Last Friday’s Miami Herald carried an item on actress/singer/activist/plastic surgery poster child Cher. That evening she was to "address a crowd of up to 2,000 young Americans . . . as part of the MoveOnStudentAction.org’s nationwide ‘Feel a Draft?’ campaign."

The next day Drudge reported the turnout was slightly less than expected. Rather than a couple of thousand, a couple of hundred people showed up.

Cher may have been disappointed, but that frustration didn’t keep her from honing in on what really counts in this election. If President Bush is reelected, she warned, "he will put in new Superior Court judges, and these guys are not going to want to see gay pride week."

Don’t think that her use of Superior Court, rather than Supreme Court, was simply a faux pas, as one of the presidential candidates might call it. For Cher, who has claimed that she thought Mount Rushmore was a natural phenomenon, that’s in all probability not the case. In terms of Constitutional scholarship, this gal makes Madonna, who of course is backing Kerry, look like Oliver Wendell Homes.

The night after Cher’s inauspicious appearance, it was Rosie O’Donnell’s turn to bomb at another anti-Bush event in Florida. Hundreds were expected. According to Rosie, " . . .there's only like, you know, maybe 38 of us here . . . "

Considering her sparse talents, I thought that like, you know, wasn’t a bad turnout.

Rosie is your typical Lefty intellectual heavyweight (no pun intended), dazzling the great unwashed with profound reflections and razor-sharp observations like, "I personally, Rosie O’Donnell, have always been a Democrat. I will always support the Democrats and I love the Democratic agenda about gun control. This is not about politics." Sure, I believe that.

Also making political pronouncements is rapper Eminem. Obviously devoting extensive effort to the requisite research, he advised Rolling Stone: "Bush is definitely not my homie." Oh, oh. There goes that crucial hip-hop vote Mr. Bush was counting on.

Hitting the road for Kerry this week is actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who has already raised a lot of money for his guy. DiCaprio is still another celebrity with an astonishing grasp of issues and political leaders. When asked in 1995 about the speaker of the House of Representatives, Leonardo asked: "Who’s Newt Gingrich? Oh, wait a minute, I’ve seen Newt on TV. He’s that funny-looking guy. I haven’t really been following politics lately." Another Mensa Man for Kerry.

Actress Sharon Stone is ardently campaigning for the Massachusetts liberal. Mz Stone has a unique take on effective parenting: "I believe that if you truly, truly love your children, you need to supply condoms in a place in your home, at a quantity that makes it a nonjudgmental situation for them to have them."

Of course, she’s also the gal who wanted to include a lesbian scene in the movie "Catwoman." Sharon’s smart enough to know why she couldn’t get away with that idea. Yes, you guessed right. It’s because George W. Bush is in the White House.

Singer Sheryl Crow performed at a Kerry rally earlier this week. Among her earlier penetrating analyses: "I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies."

Starting to see a trend here? Kerry seems to have considerable appeal among those at the bottom of the bell curve.

Some of his celebrity fans are strangers to facts and logic and reasoning. Toss out a simplistic solution and they move into full swoon mode.

We can only hope that on Election Day most of our fellow citizens shine brighter than Kerry’s stars.

I hope these morons keep it up...keep talking! The paying public will see that all we want from entertainers is for them to "SHUT UP AND SING!"

Singer Sheryl Crow performed at a Kerry rally earlier this week. Among her earlier penetrating analyses: "I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies."

everyone together in a sing-along, "all i want to do is have some fun, until the sun comes up over santa monica boulevard..."

6 posted on 10/31/2004 11:07:25 AM PST by ErnBatavia (Democrats: appear in September, leavin' November 3 - worse than a 1-night stand...)

Activist, philosopher and part-time rocker, Jon Bon Jovi spoke at an Edwards rally in Raliegh, NC last week. He said, "What qualifies John Edwards? I'll tell you what qualifies him. He's raised a family, he's worked for everything he's got and his daddy didn't give him nothin!" That's not an exact quote but it's pretty close. So here you have a millionaire rock star trying to personalize a millionaire trial-lawyer senator to a group of rich-hating Democrats. My mind is boggled.

7 posted on 10/31/2004 11:17:20 AM PST by silent_jonny (I voted on October 26, 2004---GO BUSH, BURR, BALLANTINE!)

When I think about how long it took toxic dumps and hair spray to collectively evolve into that New Jerseyite it always makes me smile. Bon Jovi talking, however, makes me puke. That guy is slimier than Oscar the Grouch's bedpan. How can people listen to him?

8 posted on 10/31/2004 5:44:56 PM PST by LibertarianInExile ( "[Y]our arguments are devoid of value. I, as a woman, have so declared it." -- BushIsTheMan)

9 posted on 11/02/2004 7:39:53 AM PST by Mike Bates (Just in time for your Halloween gift giving needs: THE book.)

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