Ah! A "Star Trek" solution?
I was never one to watch the series regularly, but didn't William Shatner, like, melt down half a dozen cybernetic adversaries over the course of that three-year mission simply by proposing a paradox—you know, like "This statement is false," followed by spectacular electrical failure of the computerized foe? Seems to me that something like this is happening out in Red America. In my spare time (far from copious these days, alas, with multiple drop-deadlines looming at work) I've been lurking in the bleak wilderness of Right Blogistan, and I gotta tell ya, [link|http://blogometer.nationaljournal.com/archives/2006/05/516_missed_oppo.html#5|their heads are exploding]. Poor Dauphin, trying to reconcile the implacably opposed imperatives of his nativist greaser-hating "base" and his cheap labor-loving corporate masters. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
cordially,
