(note to unbelievers: Gibson was born in upstate New York, so does not suffer the Arnold flaw. The Passion probably put somewhere north of $100 million in his pocket alone. And we all know that he, like Tancredo, is dead set in his convictions. And he has the money to do something about it, without resorting to cheap deals with the money-changing class. So it would work. Besides which, the last time the Republican Party ran a conservative actor, things worked out OK, right?)