The scene is a VFW Hall somewhere in Louisville. In the middle there stands a lone podium with a spotlight shining on it. Around it are tables with men in suits seated at them. The room is silent until a masked speaker walks to the podium. AS the light shines on his covered face, people begin to politely clap for unmistakeable mask of the Phantom Republican, dressed in a fine, three piece suit.
GOP: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming out to this fundraiser for the local branch of the Republican Party. We've taken a beating in the last few years, but it's not because of loyal people like all you here today. It's because America has been enticed by the Siren's song of handouts, of getting something for nothing. Because we've lost our drive to be self-reliant, we are now stuck with a President and Congress working together to take our debt and exponentially increase it so that even more crack addicts can abuse the food stamp system, so that people who've recklessly gotten AIDS can get free medical treatment, thanks to the moral and hard-working taxpayers.
We're here at this fundraiser to ask you to give money of your own free will to help mount the offensive against federal thievery. We ask you to give your money so that we can stop having our money taken. We're here to ask you to help us rebuild, to make a comeback. Just as I stand before you, right now, in need of rebuilding, in need of a comeback.
You see, I stand before you now a man with a chip on his shoulder, a man whose home fed would rather close than give him another chance to regain what he never lost, a man who saw another fed he wrestled in open and not even send him so much as an invitation to sit in the front row, a man without a contract offer... a man who has to rebuild his shattered career in an open invitational tournament. Here I am, one of the best wrestlers in the entire country, the whole world even, and I am reduced to competing in a tournament where they let such nobodies as... well, the nobodies who lost in the play-in round compete.
And why? Because I was vocal in campaigning for our Republican candidates this past fall. Because I dared campaign for John McCain. The promoters I went to for work, they told me they didn't want any more political gimmicks. They didn't want any more polarizing figures. Unity, they cried. Hope and change. Everyone knows that wrestling is a conservative man's business in the ring, but once you get to the front offices, there are liberals everywhere. It wasn't about not having a polarizing figure on camera. It was about keeping a McCain supporter off camera, letting the fans out there become brainwashed by that illegal alien Obama's message of free money.
So now, I'm here, looking to rebuild my brand, looking to rebuild my name, looking to rebuild our party's stronghold in the squared circle. While I stand here to ask for your money for our party, I don't ask the same for me. All I ask is for your support, your support in this, the 2009 TEAM Invitational Tournament. I ask you to come out en masse and watch me, cheer me as I destroy Biff Busey, a cheap, knock off of a movie character, from the minds of the liberal airheads in Hollywood. I ask you only for your support.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is time to bring conservative morals back to America. We will start here in Louisville, both in our local elections and in the square circle. Thank you and God bless America!
The crowd applauses as GOP gives the Dick Nixon salute. The camera fades to the TEAM logo.