Headline in Need of an Article

I flipped over to the "Notes" function on my iPhone and found a note I apparently wrote a couple of weeks ago and forgot about. It reads simply "Populism With Results: What the GOP Could Learn from Hamas and Hezbollah." Talk about a grand new party!

Comments

If you weren't a progressive, I would say that this was plumbing Jonah Goldberg-scale depths of inanity.

But you are a progressive, so I laughed.

Posted by lampwick | June 28, 2008 10:17 AM

"wrote a couple of weeks ago and forgot about" = "wrote after drinking a bunch of High Life and Jim Bean"?

Posted by donald | June 28, 2008 11:40 AM

You probably should have written the article, and then subtly attached the headline in the usual way. Then we could have all remarked on what a clever title that article had. Now you just look like a narcissistic freak.

Really, Friedmanesque at his rhetorical worst.

Posted by aleks | June 28, 2008 12:21 PM

I do think the Republicans would increase their appeal with a flag and some sort of headband.

Also, directly providing social services seems to have worked for Hamas and Hezbollah. It would be a little counter to their message, but I imagine if Republicans started offering low cost healthcare and religiously inflected schooling (more congenial to the platform), they'd do pretty well.

Posted by southpaw | June 28, 2008 6:04 PM

I'd say the Democrats ought to be emulating Hizballah more than the Republicans.

As in, be willing to stand up to the enemy a little more.

Posted by Richard Steven Hack | June 28, 2008 7:13 PM

Maybe work the Party Of God / God's Own Party angle?

Posted by aleks | June 29, 2008 6:35 AM