The National Republican Senatorial Committee has somehow managed to find five "celebrities" of such high stature that you wouldn't even elbow your friend on the street to say "Hay, wasn't that…" if you passed them on the street, to endorse Norm Coleman vs. Al Franken in Minnesota.

Look, I'm not a huge Al Franken fan, but trying to pretend that Robert Davi (who?) and Victoria Jackson (wha?) are on equal footing with Franken (or "in Hollywood") is preposterous and, more to the point, sad. Why didn't you get The Iron Shiek on board? Or the guy who stood next to the "Where's the Beef" lady?

C'mon, clearly, there must be better people to woo the people than the guy my grandmother used to think wasan acceptable enough level of "not black" for her to listen to.

All I'm asking is that you don't make us all too depressed.