Jane Fonda: The Gift That Keeps On Giving (To Republicans)

Just when you thought we might have a Congressional election based on the actual issues facing the country, actress-and-60s-anti-war-activist Jane Fonda is handing the GOP a thoughtful gift:

Herself.

On a bus.

Next March.

Crossing the country.

In an anti-war tour.

That’ll be a huge issue on talk radio.

That’ll probably be used as a wedge issue (”Harry Reid should repudiate her now!”) against the Demmies. Here are the details (you can see THIS big controversy with all the talk radio, cable talk show, media coverage and counter rallies coming, can’t you?):

SANTA FE, N.M. – Actress and activist Jane Fonda says she intends to take a cross-country bus tour to call for an end to U.S. military operations in Iraq.

“I can’t go into any detail except to say that it’s going to be pretty exciting,” she said.

Oh, yes, we’re sure it will be! (Sean and Rush and the RNC are salivating right now..)

Fonda said her anti-war tour in March will use a bus that runs on “vegetable oil.” She will be joined by families of Iraq war veterans and her daughter.

They plan to return to the Santa Fe area, where she was promoting her book, “My Life So Far” on Saturday.

Wait a minute? You mean, Jane, your life hasn’t been peppered with controversy, people spitting in your face, people yelling at you with red faces because of your trips to Hanoi? Do you think YOU can convince people who don’t already agree with you? Or do you think you will enrage them and make them to the polls to vote for people who will totally repudiate you (guess which party they will belong to)?

Prompted by a question from the audience, Fonda said war veterans that she has met on a nationwide book tour have encouraged her to break her silence on the Iraq war.

“I’ve decided I’m coming out,” she said.

Hundreds of people in the audience cheered loudly when Fonda announced her intentions to join the anti-Iraq war movement.

“I have not taken a stand on any war since Vietnam,” she said. “I carry a lot of baggage from that.”

You have so much baggage, Jane, that TSA is waiting at your door to inspect it right now…

Fonda incited controversy in July 1972 when she was photographed sitting on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun while on a tour of the country to drum up support to end the war.

Among other things.

Question: who’s planning this trip? Karl Rove?