Original title is "Dump Obama: So I’m lying in bed this morning, and find myself thinking, “Hey, what about a Matt Damon for President facebook page?” , but it won't fit at DK!
Yesterday, Jane Hamsher posted a new diary TMZ: Matt Damon for President, Says Michael Moore on FDL
So I'm lying in bed this morning, and find myself thinking, "Hey, what about a Matt Damon for President facebook page?"
So, I bring up facebook in my trusty Google Chrome browser, and type in "Matt Damon for President", and lo and behold! I've been scooped! Here's what pops out (after weeding out a few)
Matt Damon for president
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64 people like this.
Matt Damon for President
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27 people like this.
Matt Damon for President 2012
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22 people like this.
Matt Damon For President-2020
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9 people like this.
1,000,000 People that want Matt Damon to run for President 2012
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3 people like this.
MATT DAMON FOR PRESIDENT!!!
Just for Fun
7 members
Matt Damon for President!
Common Interest
53 members
Matt Damon For President!!!
Common Interest
60 members
Matt Damon for President
Common Interest
29 members
Matt Damon for President
2 members
Well, alright, this is a start. But, what next? Well, here's a thought that I had: Matt Damon could run for President as a documentary movie project. This could be partly serious - because he would propagate serious political messages, in a serious manner, and so just might win - but also be a fun project. His job is to incite creativity and joyful, mass participation to defeat the $$ of the Citizens United corporo-Dem (read Obama) and corporo-Repub candidates. E.g., maybe he'd get his adoring fans/political supporters to enlist the humble squeegee in a revolutionary way. And what about tapping the legions of amateur singing and dancing talent across the country, to create "democracy carollers" complete with tap dancers, who can propagate political messages to insulated suburbanite dwellers. (See my updates in Conyers spills the beans on Obama & SS & jobs bill; call for WH protests)
To multiply the political impact 435x fold, Damon would embrace jeffroby's Full Court Press, and ask 435 of his adoring fans to run for the House in each District. These would be lovingly referred to as "Matt Damon Democrats", or "MaD Democrats", for short. You know, conveying a revolutionary spirit + divine touch of madness + not taking themselves too seriously.
Craigslist could be used to recruit these 435 candidates. Documentary film footage would be shot of their campaigns, and this would be folded into the feature film "Matt Damon's Mad Democrats vs. the corporatized US Government". If it's legal to pay the candidates a small salary, maybe only the unemployed would get the nod.
Their platform could be modeled on jeffroby's original platform, but with 2 key additions (or perhaps substitutions; I'll let Damon and his script writer make the call.)
1) All MaD Dems must like Matt Damon's movies, and support him at Oscar time
2) All MaD Dems must love teachers as much as Matt does.
From a movie studio's perspective, this is sort of a dream opportunity, because getting footage from the 435 candidates' runs, as well as Damon's, won't require much more $$ than a reality TV show. Also, assuming Damon knows lots of sympathetic Hollywood types (Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, Harry Belafonte, etc.), who, in turn, know lots of sympathetic rock and roll types (Bruce Springsteen and Rage Against the Machine, maybe...), they could also drum up large crowds at combo political rallies/rock concerts, where they can do lots of low cost interviews, and not have to pay for extras.
Plus have a blast, themselves.
10:40 AM PT: The TMZ website has a poll re Damon for president, that got over 58,000 responses. Damon is polling 58% approve.