This is a fantastic idea. What the US needs right now is a grassroots movement that doesn’t involve either patchouli-drenched puppeteers or bluenosed prohibitionists spitting scripture like it’s liquid brimstone.
Slogan: “This is my country. Nothing left to talk about.”
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h/t BH
I’d be proud to make an ASP of myself.
official hand gesture to accompany slogan, as described by Peggy Noonan:
Unfortunately, I’m not old enough to run for president on my own party’s ticket. I am, however, open to suggestions for a good figure head.
I nominate Stephen Den Beste, but he probably wouldn’t accept. Then we could move to Victor David Hanson, but he has a raisin farm to run.
Let’s just ask Bill Whittle and call it even…..
Beck, Lileks has a good-sized head….
I was thinking Steve Green would be a good nominee, but I think he got a little scared of the reality of the whole situation.
I tell ya, you can’t find a good figurehead these days for even the noblest of causes.
Either that, or I’m extraordinarily drunk. Take your pick.
Retrospect: yep, extraordinarily drunk. Completely incapable of orchestrating a coherent marketing regime. That means it’s up to you “people who get read by the powers that be” to get the message out. At least until I sober up.
Call it a fantastic idea all you like, it won’t ever get past the “clever blogger post” stage unless the residents of ludicrous land actually decide to embrace it. Call your congressman! Call your pet labrador retreiver! You’d be amazed how far a silly notion can translate itself into a genuine force for change.
I can’t help but notice that no one is clamboring for me to act as some sort of figurehead.
It’s the hair, isn’t it?
“You see, where we are right now, the US economy can continue to grow strongly for basically an indefinite period of time.”
you just can’t buy smart things like that.
Economics 101: it’s like, totally possible to have growth for indefinite periods of time. That is wicked smaht.
Jeff,
I’m afraid there isn’t a position within this new party worthy of your attention. What would be more helpful would be if you would simply eliminate all the other parties, thus saving us the trouble of the whole “election” formality.
Can’t you like push a button or something? Snap your fingers and WHOOSH! no more Democrats?
Try using that wand thingy.
But, Jeff, we don’t want everyone to know that Jooos control the world.
You can be the man behind the curtain, pulling the strings.
I’m still discovering bits of damage all across the internet from last night’s drinking binge. What fun!
And Jeff, I figured from the pictures of the Colorado Blogger Bash that you weren’t yet 35.
Mike: obviously the business cycle will continue, but there’s no reason to think the economy won’t have a generally upward long-term trajectory under current government policies.
Interestingly enough, the number of new claims for unemployment has not decreased, and the average length of unemployment has *increased*. We are still in the worst job recovery since the Great Depression, and even the reports from the Labor Department earlier this month don’t put quite the dent in unemployment that people seem to believe.
I’d love to believe your theory, don’t get me wrong…I just don’t.