[beckett]

Rob Reiner (aka Meathead) shilled for Dean on Charlie Rose last week, touting a Dean/Clarke ticket on the theory that Clarke can compensate for Dean's rabid hatred of all things military. If Reiner is a bellweather for the mood of Hollywood -- a not unlikely assumption given his respected position in that community -- it bodes well for Bush, because it means Hollywood will be wasting its campaign dollars on a thoroughly unelectable candidate.