Hipoisie for Romney (only here it means "hip replacement")

The SC political blog The Garnet Spy, which self-deported from the blogdom the other day, posted many memorable comments.

Most probably weren't memorable in the way they were intended, but they were good for a giggle, and an occasional guffaw.

Waldo's favorite was a screed in which TGS waxed eloquent about how in the world of political intellect, fame, glamour and the like, the right's got it all:

CPAC also emphasizes how striking it is that there are so  many conservative political rock stars.  Liberals don’t have philosophical rock stars; they have to go to Hollywood to get people who pretend for a living to shill for them. Actors and actresses – who depend on scriptwriters to tell them what to say and directors to tell them how to say it – come out in masses to support President Teleprompter.

Where are the Left’s versions of Herman Cain, Ann Coulter, Mike Huckabee, Andrew Breitbart, Carly Fiorina, Sarah Palin, Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, Laura Ingraham, Allen West, Connie Mack and Oliver North.

Who do the Left have?  John Kerry? Nancy Pelosi?  Harry Reid? Al Sharpton? Rachel Maddow? Keith Olbermann? There are rock stars and then there are garage band losers. Will the voters hear the music?

You'd have thought TGS might have left it up for generations yet unborn to wonder over, like an ancient stela bearing witness, Ozymandias-like, to the greatness that was The Garnet Spy (alas, spylike to the last, TGS has scrubbed itself from the blogdom. The obliteration of the site is positively Carthaginian).

Waldo has been thinking of Republican rock stars as Mitt Romney's campaign soars on wings of dark money toward its inevitable end. Romney's a bit of a rock star himself: who can forget his deathless rap in 2008?

His California beach pad is in a neighborhood so cool six gay couples live in the same multimillion dollar enclave as his planned car elevator.

That's hip.

So who's Romney getting from Hollywood and the entertainment machine to support his manifest destiny?

Clint Eastwood, age 82.

Jack Niklaus, who designs golf courses for people like Romney to play on, 72.

Pat Boone, 1950s-era singer, 78.

And now, with the election only days away, the campaign has rolled out....

Bart Starr.

Yep, the 78 year-old former pro footballer, whose career ended 41 years ago.

Other Romney rock stars (from one century or another) include dry eyes pitchwoman Janine Turner; Mike Rowe (this campaign is almost surely his dirtiest job ever)...

...a 71 year-old game show host:

Chuck Woolery @chuckwoolery

Definition: Obama, problem maker. Romney, problem solver. DONE

Orson Bean, actor, 84.

Brad Pitt's mother.

And, finally, jailbird Lindsay Lohan, the kid of the lot, mostly famous for being famous.

Of course, there's more, but  you get the picture. If your demographic is near-death voters, then conservatives really are Hollywood conservatism's rock stars.

Still in doubt? Consider this!

Farewell and adieu, Garnet Spy....