PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ... TAKE THIS ADVICE

Via Ahab at If I Ran the Zoo, I see that John McCain is getting some campaign tips:

Sean Hannity just offered some advice to McCain on Hannity & Colmes. If he wants to give an inspiring speech, the senator ought to look at Mitt Romney's CPAC exit speech and Fred Thompson's exit speech; they were both fantastic, conservative, uplifting speeches....

Romney's CPAC speech? You mean the one with lines that clearly sounded better in the original German?

Europe is facing a demographic disaster. That is the inevitable product of weakened faith in the Creator, failed families, disrespect for the sanctity of human life and eroded morality....

The threat to our culture comes from within....

...we are not dissuaded by the snickers and knowing glances when we stand up for family values, and morality, and culture....

And Thompson's speech -- you mean the one in which he mumbled thank-yous and Reaganite bullet points into his lectern for ten minutes, occasionally remembering to look up?

Here's what people who actually like Thompson consider praise:

They say he had no "fire in the belly." ...

When he was on Meet the Press a while back, Claremont's Seth Leibsohn said, admiringly, "Fred came off like his hour there was not the most important thing he had to do that day." There’s something attractive about that....

Yeah, that's the model John McCain should emulate in running against Barack Obama -- and I mean that sincerely.