Sean Penn is now the spokesperson for the Democratic Party? Guess I missed the memo.

I always get a kick out of the venom that conservatives spew about Hollywood....considering how starstruck Republicans become upon discovering a celebrity that embraces their view. A celebrity aligns him or herself with the party that bashes Hollywood as part of its platform and the Republicans are falling over each other to convince the said celebrity to run for higher office. Aside from President Ronald Reagan, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and NRA President Charlton Heston, the GOP has actively sought out Bo Derek, Dennis Miller and Kelsey Grammer to run for office in California. And notice the B-list celebrity lineup they trotted out at last year's convention (Rick Schroeder, Elizabeth from Survivor, and my personal favorite, Ron Silver).

And how about Britney Spears and Kid Rock? They're both Republicans! But they're also both in the bullseye of Republican culture warriors...or at least they were before they publicly supported George Bush. What's a conservative to do? Do they invite Kid Rock and Britney Spears to respectively run for the Mayor of Detroit and the Governor of Louisiana? Or do they quietly shift the focus off of Britney and on to a Democratic celebrity who wears too few clothes? Or do they distract the faithful simply by mentioning the name of Sean Penn and Michael Moore, instigating an instant culture war feeding frenzy and providing instant amnesia about the party's conflicting relationship with Hollywood.