The moronic fad by which the husks of pseudo-celebrities present themselves as political candidates has almost no novelty left to it. And yet it still fascinates: The overt positioning that turned Schwarzenegger into a governor and Al Franken into a serious Senate candidate, the kind of tidal-wave-of-stupid that saw a publicity-starved creature like Gary Coleman declare himself a candidate for Governor of California.

All of which puts me in something of a bind, because the greatest B-actor of his generation is currently seeking a Senate seat from Kentucky, and I don’t know if I can oppose him. His name is Sonny Landham, and you may remember him as ‘Billy’ from the movie The Predator.

I don’t know if I can stress enough that The Predator is one of the greatest films ever made, and that Landham’s character was one of the most perfect images to ever be projected onto a screen. ‘Billy’ was some kind of hyper-stereotype of a Native-American, whose keen tracking instincts let him detect the murderous, invisible alien, on the wind. And then he challenged the Predator to a knife fight, and died horribly somewhere off camera. It was the role he was probably born to play.

I think I saw the movie for the fist time when I was about seven—thanks Dad!—and it’s still one of the defining, dumb moments in my life.

Landham is running as a Libertarian in a race that is pitting arch-conservative Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell against long-shot former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bruce Lunsford. Landham has yet to file the necessary signatures to get his name on the ballot, but the Libertarian Party of Kentucky is bullish on his chances.

The Landham platform is totally inconsequential (especially given that he appears not to have a campaign website), but it has something to do with getting us out of Iraq and a pledge to “Say what you mean, and mean what you say.” I think I’d be remiss if I didn’t note that the last time he said what he meant and did what he said, he went to prison for making threatening phone calls to his ex-wife.