Elite Anti-Charisma Rescue Team Assembled

James Wolcott's blog
Vanity Fair

I can already feel the excitement leaving my body. From CNN:

"GOP to launch rebranding effort"

Is that a coma I feel coming on?

CNN has learned that the new initiative, called the National Council for a New America, will be announced Thursday.

It will involve an outreach by an interesting mix of GOP officials, ranging from 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain to Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor and the younger brother of the man many Republicans blame for the party's battered brand: former President George W. Bush.

In addition to Sen. McCain and Gov. Bush, GOP sources familiar with the plans tell CNN others involved in the new group's "National Panel Of Experts" will include:

• Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a former national GOP chairman
• Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal
• Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney

Well, hell, if Haley Barbour's aboard, this boat is sure to be rockin'.

(More here.)