A Republican Mount Rushmore

A stock question at every presidential debate is: Who are your heroes?

We have, in New Hampshire a nice granite surface, recently transformed from the Old Man of the Mountain into a blank palate.

With Republican majorities in the House of Delegates and the state Senate, we ought to consider whose faces might be carved into the stone.

For sheer, unbridled veneration, surely Ronald Reagan will get the nod.

As the man who most clearly enunciates the Republican gospel and as a man who inspires all Republican politicians and provides the phrases and the style to Republican values, Rush Limbaugh belongs up there.

And for pure gamesmanship and model behavior, Mitch McConnell, too long neglected deserves his place.

And one more thing, now that we are talking symbols. Do we really want an elephant? I mean, elephants have long memories and the last thing we want is to remember things. The Depression and how we got there, the rescue from the Depression and how that happened, the great Recession and how we got there, and how Obama averted it. Republicans live in the present. We have been called vulture capitalists, but you know, vultures eat only the dead. So we ought to consider a better pack animal, one who derives his strength from falling in line and coordinating attacks: The hyena, a better idea.