In the HQ inbox this morning:

John Wayne & Bill McNally for Ron Paul 2008
Apart from the early morning chuckle I got out of the picture, Bill's idea got me thinking. For years now, I have jokingly advocated the creation of what I like to think of as a Founding Fathers Resurrection program: take the writings and speeches of great American patriots, feed them into some sort of artificial intelligence software, and finally get to ask James Madison what he thinks of Social Security. If you could get him to stop cursing and weeping, it would make great copy.

Now I'm thinking the concept needs to be expanded... Let's reconstitute all sorts of American icons and sub them in for the electoral college. Give me John Wayne and Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater and Davey Crockett, Patrick Henry and--hell, I'll take a live one--Clint Eastwood. Give me a room full of men Americans love and respect, and I'll give you President Paul.