It appears that the George Soros money is beginning to pay off, at least in national ideas outreach. George's son, Jonathan, is going to coordinate with various entertainment industry figures to select and broadcast an ad targeting President George W. Bush.

I held my nose and went to the organizing website to dig up just who all the judges were:

Jack Black
Benny Boom
Donna Brazile
James Carville
Margaret Cho
Hector Elizondo
Al Franken
Janeane Garofalo
Stan Greenberg
Ted Hope
Michael Mann
Moby
Michael Moore
Mark Pellington
Tony Shalhoub
Russell Simmons
Michael Stipe
Gus Van Sant
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Eddie Vedder

Link omitted because I don't want to get charged with violating various decency acts.

In regards to this list, you have got to be kidding me. Hopefully for Democrats, there's some sort of weighted vote for Carville and Brazile, because a lot of these other types don't strike me as being capable of figuring out what the Electoral College is, much less performing the level of analysis necessary to find a good anti-Bush ad that will resonate with the undecided voters and make them vote for whoever the Democrats nominate.

If I was a Democratic pundit instead of a Republican-voting conservative pundit, I'd be burning up the lines to Terry McAuliffe or someone with an ounce of sanity and trying to convince them to keep nitwits like these away from our already troubled 2004 effort. I'd almost be curious if this is more of a vanity project for the celebrity types, as opposed to being a real political effort. Sure, the final product may be an excellent piece of Hollywood art, but that's not what sways voters.

Obligatory Derbyshire-style gloomery: There are probably plenty people in this country who're stupid enough to be swayed to the message of the ad simply because of who's on this panel. Someone remind me why we made suffrage universal again, please.

Tip of the Wisconsin hat to Daniel Moore at Blogs for Bush.

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