Glamour.

This item, posted by Mr. Oliver Willis, truly gladdened our hearts.

Mr. Cheney, quite the pin-up in his lily-white Stetson, can grace your wall for a mere twenty-five dollars.

"Keep track of important dates with the Official 2007 RNC Calendar filled with full-color photographs of President Bush, the First Lady, Vice President Cheney and Lynn Cheney. Each month features fascinating, little-known, GOP Presidential "firsts" with which you can stump your friends and family. This must-have wall calendar is 11" x 17" fully displayed. Makes a great stocking stuffer. Order today! Quantity is limited."

(For a moment a vision popped into our heads of Lynne Cheney wearing short-shorts and cowboy boots, sponging soap across a sports car, her head turned provocatively toward the camera. The moment we had this vision we knew that we must share it with you, our Readers.)

We ourselves do not particularly endorse any political party -- at least until one of them agrees to adopt the Pessimist Agenda. (Before you say anything: no, fearmongering is not the same.) The GOP seems to have more of a penchant for idol-worship these days -- let us not forget the Roman glories of the Reagan funeral -- but is anything more ridiculous on either side than political hero-worship?

Politicans, for most of us, remain a despised breed of hypocrites whom it is our business as Americans to distrust, mock, and degrade. This is as it should be. We have nothing to gain and everything to lose by doing otherwise. The candidate honest enough to acknowledge this, and to present him or herself an as intelligent lesser evil than as a glittering celebrity of virtue, has the best chance of scoring our vote.