Aug 30th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
The Tina Fey Factor
Atrios is surprised that this is an official McCain-Palin campaign product; he thinks it “looks like something from a bad Hollywood sitcomish movie about a presidential campaign.” But what it really looks like — exactly like — is something from a movie where the joke is that Tina Fey is John McCain’s running mate. It’s the part she was born to play.
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August 30th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Let’s list some of the problems:
Comical font size changes for “TICKET” and “AMERICA” that make this look like an MS Word production. Reinforces that they haven’t really thought through how to brand this pick yet because they went so vague here.
Awkward picture that is clearly a photoshop of the two of them together. They look like they’re staring at different things in different places in different years.
Emphasizes McCain’s short stature by having her beehive hair do end up higher on the graphic than his head.
Though fine from a “red, white and blue” standpoint, the thing behind them looks like it’s part of a county fair. In fact, that’s the dominant theme of this, it looks like an ad for a local car dealership’s tent sale.
On the plus side, I do like the McCain-Palin font and there’s something attractive about both names ending in “IN,” even if the two words together do sound like a disease or syndrome.
August 30th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Somehow I don’t think Palin will be a very good advocate for the Supertrain. I am totally dumbfounded by that choice.
August 30th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
The resemblance really is quite striking. If she can equal Carvey doing BushOne SNL should bring her back at 10x her salary.
August 30th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
The Palin font is the worst part of it to my eyes, though there are many bad parts. The font is fine for McCain because of the little “c,” but all those big, thick letters in “PALIN” just don’t work together.
August 30th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
I actually think she is a dead ringer for the naive and overly earnest Peggy Hill on King of the Hill.
August 30th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Wow. She makes McCain look even older. The McCain campaign would probably be better off *not* featuring them at events together.
August 30th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Optima Black is actually a good choice here– an outdated and ugly font for an outdated and ugly party.
I’m not sure if they intended it that way.
August 30th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Patricia Heaton people! Come on. Not Fey.
August 30th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
“But what it really looks like — exactly like — is something from a movie where the joke is that Tina Fey is John McCain’s running mate”
John Stewart got there last night…
August 30th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Hmm, ever since I read this, now it looks horrible to me. Looked nice to me before, but now it does look thick and weird to my eyes. Oh well, I guess it’s like discussing art.
August 30th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
I can’t believe nobody else has picked up on this, but it inspired me enough to start a new blog of my own just so I could write about it:
This whole pick is so much like the TV show starring Geena Davis, “Commander In Chief,” that I am totally frightened by it. Apparently, all things put on TV are destined to happen. No flights out of Australia for me…
Anyhow! In the show, a presidential candidate chooses a female running mate in a pandering attempt at gaining more votes… and it works! Alas, he dies after winning the election, but not without first telling his VP that nobody ever intended her to ACTUALLY lead the nation.
Oopsie.
video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoXEeQPVDDI
plot info, etc.: http://greystateblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/match-made-in-hollywood.html
August 30th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
I doubt it is a coincidence that these images look like a promo for the local news. I suspect the slightly amateurish and familiar style is meant to be reassuring. Local new stations are not completely oblivious to how they look, I am sure ad agencies sell them the style based on lots of focus groups. It probably is a “people you could know” approach to marketing.
August 30th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
It makes me think of nursing homes. McCain is the elderly patient and she’s his solicitous, cheerful nurse.
August 30th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Because I know you’d enjoy a good Battlestar Galatica reference… http://i33.tinypic.com/f9lhy0.jpg
August 30th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Obama is the inexperienced blank slate who appeals to the Stuff White People Like crowd.
Palin is the inexperienced blank slate who appeals to the people whom the Stuff White People Like crowd despises.
McCain and Biden are both garrulous old-timers, but McCain was a POW and has passed some big legislation across party lines, while Biden’s just been in the Senate forever, and is kind of a bozo to boot (”My IQ is much higher than yours!)
The Democrats ought to win easily this year, but these two candidates just might blow it.
August 30th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Sailer is right in the way that he often is – he has a point which obscures more than it tells.
Of course, Obama *is* the candidate of young, painfully hip whites who like to think (maybe sometimes correctly!) that they have diverse friends.
Of course, he is also the candidate of, um, actual black folks, and real live hispanics, and of the reality-based community (scientists, librarians, and similar radicals).
Palin, on the other hand, has two constituencies. Evangelicals who know what she stands for, and low-information voters who like her story, who don’t care about what she stands for.
Food for thought: those of us who are (in one limited way or another) interested in the influence of various diasporas, including African and Jewish, on American thought probably have a hope. I know I do. Obama isn’t the blank slate: America is.
In Sailer’s tradition of racist thought, it’s impossible to imagine a Black person as an agent (hence the relentless need to frame Black people as unintelligent, as incapable, etc.). That racism is a terrible thing, but very occasionally it can a source of power to Black people.
Your ideology makes you blind, Sailer. Obama seized control of a political party, from scratch, in four years. You’re underestimating him, and I think it very likely that your ideology — even for you — doesn’t have long to last.
Palin would be a good comparison to Obama – if she had taken over the Republican party from within. No comparison.
August 30th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Once again, without some statistical polling or focus group analysis, Matt’s opinion is not worth much.
Besides, how many people actually vote based on one campaign poster? So who cares?
Once again, this is Matt concentrating on matters of no substance – because he doesn’t know anything about matters of substance to be able to comment on them.
Matt should be concentrating on why McCain is even still in the race against Obama, let alone closing the polls gap – and what the Dems should be doing about it. This kind of fluff – e.g., Alaska fun facts – he spent the last two days on is useless.
August 30th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Get ready for the Lara Croft Vice-President. Hat tip: A Daily Dish reader.
August 30th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
If this whole Presidential run thing doesn’t work out for them, I’d say McCain and Palin have a bright future ahead of them as anchors on the local evening newscast in Sedona.
August 30th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
wow.
my friends and i had the exact same conversation today, pretty much word for word.
except we went on to amend the conclusion:
“sarah palin was born to be played by tina fey.”
that seems more appropriate.
August 30th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
By far, the funniest McCain Palin video to date is this by JedReport.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RN5xbWtNSU
Believe it or not, this is a compilation of scenes featuring McCain sneaking glances at Palin’s ass, while fidgeting with his wedding ring.
August 30th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
get Lorne Michael to play McCain alongside Fey
August 30th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Yesterday I felt this was such a curveball, I wasn’t sure how to react. Sure she’s absurdly unqualified but who knows how it’ll play, all things considered?
This morning I awoke refreshed, contented, and a little excited. This choice was a catastrophe for McCain. He just handed Obama the election on a silver platter. He has made a clownish unforced error and neutralized his best lines of attack on Obama. He has made himself and (unfortunately for her) his running makes the object of ridicule which will, I’m sure, peak weeks or months from now.
It is incredibly exciting, this period between the announcement and the first of Palin’s many pop quizzes on Turkmenistan and Kurdistan and Bolivia. It is like foreplay. It’s killing me.
August 30th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Puts “Not ready for prime time” back into vogue.
August 30th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Palin fought the crooks and nepotists in the Republican Party of Alaska, which is one hell of a lot more than Obama did to clean up Illinois, a notorious political cesspool.
In contrast, Obama’s predecessor in the U.S. Senate, Peter Fitzgerald, brought a pit bull of a federal prosecutor named Patrick Fitzgerald (no relation) to Chicago, where he put away Republican governor George Ryan and bipartisan fixer Tony Rezko (and Scooter Libby in his spare time). The Republican Party abandoned Sen. Fitzgerald for this, so the seat was open for Obama to waltz in against joke candidate (Alan Keyes) sent by the GOP. Obama never made Fitzgerald’s mistake of doing anything substantive to clean up Illinois politics.
Indeed, Obama played ball with Rezko, helping Rezko get a veto over all hospital building in Illinois by recommending to the Illinois Senate floor as the Chairman of the Health and Human Services committee Rezko’s bill cutting the number of members of the Health Facilities Planning Board from 15 to 9. Not coincidentally, Rezko had 5 board members bought and paid for. That’s one of the major things Rezko went to prison for.
August 30th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Arnold Evans – That JedReport video is simply incredibly funny. I have not seen that before.
August 30th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Steve, at the time that McCain announced his candidacy for presidency this election, Palin’s greatest accomplishment was her mayorship of a tiny flyspeck town in Alaska. That was during this election cycle, Steve.
August 30th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
That Daily Dish reader is a complete moron who has absolutely no clue what he/she is talking about. First of all, it’s Lara Croft, not Laura Croft. Laura Croft is a playmate. Second of all, the “Seth Rogen” generation or whatever she calls it will not switch votes because she’s hot. They’ll make crude and sexist jokes about nailing her, and move on. The person who thought of that had to be at least 55 years old.
August 30th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
I want to say that that video of McCain staring at Palin’s ass is absolutely incredible and devastating. Every liberal blog should post it, and every reader should send it to their friends. This could turn McCain/Palin into a complete joke overnight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RN5xbWtNSU
August 30th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
“Matt should be concentrating on why McCain is even still in the race against Obama, let alone closing the polls gap . . . . ”
Uh, except he isn’t.
“Palin fought the crooks and nepotists in the Republican Party of Alaska”
LOL! Except Palin *is* one of the crooks (she was for the “bridge to nowhere” before she was against it) and nepostists (trying to get a man fired for the benefit of a relative).
McCain has jumped the shark on this one.
I love it!
August 30th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
8/12
That’s the over/under on how many hours before MattY starts discussing this breaking McCain scandal.
August 30th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
We’re not dealing with ordinary people here. Most people with Palin’s limitations would have run from the proposition.
We’re dealing with insanity.
August 30th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
I want to say that that video of McCain staring at Palin’s ass is absolutely incredible and devastating. Every liberal blog should post it, and every reader should send it to their friends. This could turn McCain/Palin into a complete joke overnight.
Put Bob Dole on saying (a la his Viagra ad) “Down, boy.”
August 30th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Sarah Palin is qualified to chair the Board of Selectmen in all but the largest New England towns.
August 30th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
The best part of the McCain/Palin video is the awkward body language when he makes her embrace him at the end.
He looks like her creepy uncle. Her great uncle.
August 30th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Tina Fey is young and hot but much much much too smart for McCain’s taste.
August 30th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
I had wondered when we’d see a McCain/Palin logo. I noticed there were Obama-Biden signs all over the place at the announcement of the Democratic choice when I watched it on TV, but I was at work for the Republican one and I have only seen pictures. There didn’t seem to be McCain-Palin signs, and I wondered if the pick was more tentative than it seemed.
August 30th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
The ad looks more like something corporate advertising experts would dream up than it does the usual staid political ad. The Dems are still stuck on just having some graphic artist throw together something that looks good to him, maybe based on a suggestion from a politician. They’re still locked into (stupidly) treating details like this like they’re not important– but that’s not what the (especially post-9/11) Republicans are like.
My bet is that there is a theory to this ad– that it represents applied psychology and a method. You can deride it all you want, but if you do, it’s probably because the ad is designed to appeal to someone who isn’t from your social class– the average voter who might vote Republican, instead of the rare person with very finely attued aesthetic taste (who tend to be a little more likely to be blog-consuming politics junkies).
August 30th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
The fact that the ad sucks is all just a clever ruse.
John McCain must be the cleverest ruser ever.
August 30th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
The notion that Palin fought off the Alaskan sleaze-bags is ridiculous. Palin’s backers are already making a mint off of her administration.
http://www.alaskajournal.com/stories/060808/oil_20080608034.shtml
Palin arranged a $500 million dollar subsidy for the natural gas company TransCanada. Alaska has a population of 660,000 so the give-away cost each tax-payer approx. $1600. Fortunately the money came out of a windfall tax on other energy producers so tax-payers didn’t know their money had been given away.
A better description of Palin’s battle with other Alaska republicans is a turf war between rival gangs. With energy prices where they are, there are a great many very powerful players who have an interest in Alaska’s resources.
August 30th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
If we are going with appropriate campaign posters, I think this one fits the bill:
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/johnmccain/ig/John-McCain-Pictures/Anna-Nicole-Palin.htm
August 30th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
The critics of McCain’s choice of Palin are forgetting one important thing: He was a POW.
August 30th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
This is all a bit too reminiscent of the Olympics for me. The thinking behind Palin is the same as that behind the Olympic architecture: flashy and impressive for a couple of weeks, but incoherent after that. (And showing a lot of contempt for citizens, besides.) The pick suits McCain’s message the same way the stadiums fit the layout of Bejing.
August 30th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
self-call, but this has to be shared:
http://stanleyjewbrick.blogspot.com/2008/08/sarah-palin-final-obvious-conclusion.html
August 30th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
1) Others may have mentioned this but I thought I would point it out in case it has not come up.
2) I overheard two middle-aged women discussing McCain’s choice of Palin today. They seem relatively independent –neither strong Republicans nor Democrats.
3) One of them noted that she thought it strange that Palin would sign up for Vice President given that she is a mother who has 5 children –including a young child with Down’s Syndrome. It not that a woman shouldn’t be Vice President — it’s that this particular woman at this particular point in time already has too much on her plate. That she needs to fulfil her committments to her family before she takes on heavy responsibilities in politics. Vice President is a big step up from Governor of Alaska.
4) The other woman thought it was VERY IRRESPONSIBLE of John McCain to choose Palin in lieu of a far more experienced person GIVEN THAT MCCAIN is 74 and could die at any time.
Which I thought was a very good point. PRESIDENT Palin is a STRONG possibility if McCain wins the election. Is that what the country wants?? Because that is what the country is likely to get if it votes for McCain.
5) But then THAT in turn raises the issue of Obama’s lack of executive experience. You can’t criticize Palin’s shortcomings without keeping the issue of inexperience –Obama’s Greatest Weakness — FRONT and CENTER. And also keep the questioning of line-jumping Hubris and Ambition front and center. But if you think Palin is too big for her britches, can’t the same argument be made against Obama. She is young –about the same age as Obama.
6) It’s Rovian Jiu Jitsu. McCain chose Palin — and she will be ENCOURAGED to make scatterbrained immature remarks — so that McCain’s staff can repeatedly point out that she is Obama’s doppelganger. She is the Republican Obama.
And if you don’t like Palin for Vice PResident, why would you like Obama for President?
I strongly support Obama — but Palin is a more fiendish choice than people realize.
August 31st, 2008 at 12:42 am
No no no no. You don’t have the right Palin McCain announcement youtube at all. This is the winning entry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qUVQDmLf7s
August 31st, 2008 at 12:43 am
Don’t panic, Hack. I think the first thing to do is what the Obama campaign will almost certainly do – be polite, focus on McCain, and (in your numerical spirit)
1) Hope for Palin to spontaneously combust
2) Hope for the MSM to turn into a school of piranhas.
Let’s not forget the paradox of the fundies. They are numerous, they are powerful, and yet they can’t get anything done. Look at Huck, as talented as accessible as he was.
We’ll see, but I bet McCain overplayed his hand on this one, knowing too little about her. She’s done and said some stupid stuff and, bluntly, the MSM doesn’t like fundies or hicks. The High Broderites will not see this as a serious choice, and that’s going to be a problem.
If she implodes — say, if the ethics investigation goes badly, or if people start to zero in on her opposition to abortion in cases of rape & incest, and she sticks to that (which, being a fundie, she might) — it’ll be a feeding frenzy.
This isn’t Rovian Jiu Jitsu as McCain trying to be Rove. I bet it won’t work.
This is exactly the kind of crap that might make High Broderites and wavering corporate types decide that Obama is the lesser of two evils. You think Wall Street wants Palin at the helm?
August 31st, 2008 at 1:00 am
Best headline of the campaign so far:
McCain may give speech from disaster zone.
One way or the other, yes he will.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:00 am
Is it just me? or does a lot of the disgust from liberal bloggers of the Palin pick stem from a real concern of how she will shape this race.
It’s a curve ball and it brings a lot of uncertainty to the race. And that freaks a lot of Obama supporters out (Andrew Sullivan for one).
August 31st, 2008 at 1:22 am
I love the way Gigolo John impulsively grabs his wedding ring finger when he looks at Palin.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:33 am
Envy-green is not an attractive colour on my favourite progressives. Please don’t be upset that the old guy out manuevered The One. Barack’s inexperience showed – in glaring detail. He fell for McCain’s baiting and picked anything BUT an agent of change, Joe Biden.
Let the games begin!
August 31st, 2008 at 1:33 am
Is it just me? or does a lot of the disgust from liberal bloggers of the Palin pick stem from a real concern of how she will shape this race.
No, it’s just you. I see a total cipher. I see someone that anyone but the most hidebound social conservative would see as as a complete nightmare to be the back-up president. I’m so not scared that she picks up votes it’s not even funny. Maybe she shores up the Bush 2004 vote somewhat, I think she scares off the swing vote. McCain is old and he could die in relatively short order. There is your president: Mrs. Alaska.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:39 am
Let the games begin!
Err, Ok.
Watch what happens in the polls. This was really, really, stupid. It makes me want to open an intrade account right now. The problem is that for all the bullshit I hear in blogs, it never translates into action in the markets. Now, I’m not a believer in the perfection of markets, but goddamn if you guys were serious you could at least put your money where your mouth is. You are stupid enough to believe all this, but not stupid enough to bet on it. That pisses people off.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:42 am
No, it’s just you. I see a total cipher. I see someone that anyone but the most hidebound social conservative would see as as a complete nightmare to be the back-up president. I’m so not scared that she picks up votes it’s not even funny. Maybe she shores up the Bush 2004 vote somewhat, I think she scares off the swing vote. McCain is old and he could die in relatively short order. There is your president: Mrs. Alaska.
you really aren’t freaking out about the pick. I take my comment back. sure you aren’t.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:47 am
you really aren’t freaking out about the pick. I take my comment back. sure you aren’t.
What, you’re taunting now? Come on, get over yourself and go read the front page of talking points memo. McCain is cooked on this.
Eagleton.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:48 am
So bet me.
To hell with intrade (which would be way more up your ideological avenue than mine), what would you give me for odds on Obama vs. McCain?
August 31st, 2008 at 2:00 am
Ed Marshall, I agree with the Intrade 60/40 Obama advantage over McCain.
And like you said, the 60/40 intrade advantage hasn’t changed a bit since McCain picked Palin.
Yet, it seems like many liberal bloggers argue that this is a disastrous pick for McCain. That’s simply wrong. And the pick is vastly better than the boring Romney or Pawlenty options.
It’s a good political pick.
August 31st, 2008 at 2:10 am
Then it should have done something right? Watch that ticket auger down. That pick sucked and as people see her it’s gonna get worse. Joint functions where John McCain can’t resist staring at her tits? That’s what I saw today, and I won’t be the only one. This is something that future campaigns will study to avoid.
August 31st, 2008 at 2:12 am
The problem with bringing Obama’s experience front and center is that it demands McCain’s experience be brought front and center. Sure he’s been around since before Alaska was even a state, but what has he done that justifies his being President? He’s not exactly demonstrated much knowledge about foreign policy, domestic policy, or tax policy. Once you are ignorant about those things it doesn’t matter how long you’ve been using your wife’s money to get elected to the Senate.
August 31st, 2008 at 2:16 am
Then it should have done something right? Watch that ticket auger down. That pick sucked and as people see her it’s gonna get worse. Joint functions where John McCain can’t resist staring at her tits? That’s what I saw today, and I won’t be the only one. This is something that future campaigns will study to avoid.
Come on now Ed. If liberals associate and speak of Sarah Palin as a dumb bimbo (and sadly they have), it will drive women to her camp.
Stay on topic. Speak of her lack of experience. Speak not of anything personal about her. Stay classy.
August 31st, 2008 at 2:31 am
Everyone I talked to today noticed that. From your Limbaugh conserative to your guy selling Cuban cigars for the CPCUSA noticed that. McCain had to cut down his options and what he decided on was the MILF. Watch the video again, that’s all it boils down to.
August 31st, 2008 at 2:41 am
If liberals associate and speak of Sarah Palin as a dumb bimbo
Oh, shit, they would just be speaking the truth.
That’s about what she is. Maybe I’m crazy, but I’d imagine most women would pretty much agree.
August 31st, 2008 at 3:02 am
And the photo of Quaylin is a clear violation of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.
August 31st, 2008 at 3:08 am
The image looks like the front view of a two-headed turkey with a red, white and blue tail.
August 31st, 2008 at 3:18 am
Is it just me? or does a lot of the disgust from liberal bloggers of the Palin pick stem from a real concern of how she will shape this race.
Damn right. It’s a real test of how venal the electorate is.
August 31st, 2008 at 3:40 am
Re. the Palin announcement video (which is hilarious) I second the awkward body language between her and McCain. Looks like this picture captures the moment just after she finished her speech. McCain really has that Pepé Le Pew thing going.
August 31st, 2008 at 4:05 am
It’s pretty goddamn ridiculous that the choice of a 44-year old attractive woman sets the left tittering off like comedy writers at best and buffoons at worst. Alaska is the largest state in the union she’s it’s elected Governor. She’s got a raft of strengths and flaws like any candidate. You know damn well that if Obama picked Gov. Schweitzer of Montana the left would have been doing cartwheels over his energy policy and touting his “experience” overseas installing irrigation projects in Saudi Arabia and the fact that he speaks Arabic. Like you can’t get a language course for $3000 and be stone wrong on foreign affairs if you speak the language.
The only joke on the GOP ticket is McCain, who told America again and again what qualities he was looking for in a VP and then picked somebody with different qualities. If this was Romney/Palin or Huckabee/Palin and the pick was rolled out the day after the Biden pick, not the day after Obama’s convention speech, the reaction would be far different.
Focus on McCain. Not who looks like Tina Fey. A few thousand words on why Obama/Biden reminds people of Tayshaun Prince/Ted Danson might be fun but I’m not sure there’s much of value to be mined in that vein unless you secretly aspire to be Billy Bush.
Why not instead focus on reports that the two McCain VP finalists Candidate X (Lieberman) and Candidate Y (Palin) have literally nothing in common on the policy front, meanign McCain believes in his “gut” even more than Bush.
August 31st, 2008 at 5:58 am
I’m sorry, but bad internet armchair casting is a pet peeve of mine. Aside from the fact that they are both dark-haired women who wear glasses, Tina Fey and Sarah Palin do not look much alike. Tina has a more distinctive chin, thinner nose, patented crooked smile, and smaller eyes. Sure, you *could* cast Tina Fey as Sarah Palin, and it would probably be fine, but by no means are they separated at birth. If one or the other didn’t wear glasses, I doubt anyone would connect them.
Gah!
Mariska Hargitay would probably be a better choice.
August 31st, 2008 at 6:48 am
Alaska is the largest state in the union
In land area. In population it’s 47th (Excel sheet).
August 31st, 2008 at 7:59 am
Considering how the polling done so far has her turning off women, independents and cross-over Democrats, I’m not too worried. thehova is just being a jackass.
August 31st, 2008 at 8:16 am
Aside from the fact that they are both dark-haired women who wear glasses, Tina Fey and Sarah Palin do not look much alike.
The main point of resemblance is that Palin favors a hairstyle that Tina Fey often wears in publicity shots. Frequently, hair and glasses are enough to make people see a striking resemblance.
Palin also gets compared to Mary McDonnell as President Roslin on Battlestar Galactica, who resembles neither Palin nor Tina Fey except that she has dark hair and sometimes wears glasses.
Now, John McCain’s resemblance to Michael Hogan as Tigh… that’s another story.
August 31st, 2008 at 9:40 am
She supported for Buchanan way back when, so she is an anti-Semite. Wait till AIPAC gets a hold of that information.
August 31st, 2008 at 12:34 pm
I wonder why “TICKET AMERICA” is so prominent, are they planning on a drive 55 campaign?
August 31st, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Not that she’s a dead ringer or anything, but Sarah Palin reminds me of Nancy Pelosi.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:00 pm
They’ve pasted in a new picture of her in the logo at McCain’s website. She’s facing the camera squarely now and has a big grin with wide eyes. I didn’t notice any changes in McCain’s half of the logo.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:11 pm
John McCain looks like a post-tramp Charlie Chaplin.
http://lopezbooks.com/images/kl/017958.jpg
August 31st, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Ha! When you noted the resemblance, this picture immediately leapt to my mind:
http://robkendt.com/Fotos/Dc1.jpg
But in looking for it, I couldn’t help but notice this gem:
http://www.charliechaplin.com/images/photos/0000/0031/akinginnewyorksquare_big.jpg
I hope we get to see a matching McCain picture for that in short order. Maybe if (when?) Governor Palin says something colossally stupid on the stump?
August 31st, 2008 at 9:01 pm
No, it is NOT going to be a “feeding frenzy”, no matter what gaffes Palin makes on the campaign trail.
Look, the MSM is OWNED by people who WANT McCain to win the Presidency! Get this through your heads, people! They are NOT going to do ANYTHING to screw with McCain or Palin! Period!
Obama is going to have to go “off the grid” – meaning do end runs around the MSM – if he expects to win this. He’s going to have to do things which, as Abbie Hoffman used to say, “MAKE NEWS” – rather than relying on being a mere candidate to generate MSM attention.
Abbie Hoffman and the Yippies did what they did because he knew that the MSM HAS to cover “news” that everybody is aware of. But if the media is against you, that’s the ONLY way you’re going to get covered – even if the coverage is negative.
The MSM are going to get McCain elected President – aided by a war with Iran and ginned up “Cold War” with Russia.
And I STILL don’t see one single Democrat addressing that probability. It’s total cognitive dissonance on the Democratic side.
As for that video that Arnold referenced, well, I gotta say, it was a let down. Obviously from the angle of the shots, you could easily say McCain wasn’t looking at her butt at all. It’s funny to make it look that way, but there’s no evidence he actually was.
What I DID notice about that video is that Palin didn’t seem to want to be close to him. Maybe she feels he really is trying to hit on her – which wouldn’t surprise me at all. He could easily be planning to dump Cindy for her, then get half Cindy’s money from a divorce settlement at some point. Except from the way Palin’s acting, I don’t think McCain has much of a chance with her.
August 31st, 2008 at 10:00 pm
It’s a curve ball and it brings a lot of uncertainty to the race.
But it’s a hanging curve. Certainly, Sarah Palin wasn’t the pitch Democrats were looking for – we just assumed McCain would keep throwing his heat, some big tough guy – but fundamentally, she’s a lousy pitch. Sarah Palin is lousy stuff. She’s really got no movement, and she isn’t exactly painting the corners. Barack Obama can hit this cheese. Joe Biden can hit this cheese. Hillary Clinton can hit this cheese. John Kerry can hit this cheese.
OK, enough with the painful baseball metaphor. John McCain just burned “his first presidential decision” on controlling one day’s media cycle, and now he’s got to live with the fact that he’s a 72-year-old man running a campaign on how he can be trusted to keep the country safe, who picked Gidget to take over as Commander in Chief in case he gets blown up by bin Laden.
September 1st, 2008 at 12:35 am
Let’s think back to all the past presidential elections in which the vice presidential candidates played a meaningful role in the outcome. Ok, I’m done. I’ll wait if you want to pretend to try to come up with an example.
I realize that on a blog you have to analyze the news of the moment, but those making sweeping pronouncements based on this pick are fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of the vice presidency. Cheney, a shockingly ugly (morally and physically) man of whom no one sane has ever approved, beat out the least liberal (to the point of being a Republican) Democratic senator of our time and the most handsome (to the point of being a pretty-boy) Democratic senator of our time. The insurance policy America bought on GWB dying or incapaciting himself in a freak pretzel accident was an old grumpy guy who hates talking to people, shoots friends in the face, and has no real policy positions other than those that benefit the oil industry.
Quick, who served as FDR’s vice president before Truman? Hurry up, name one effect of Dan Quayle’s occupancy of the VP’s office that would not have occurred had the office been occupied by a chimp who didn’t know how to spell “potato” (or is it “tomato”)? There’s a reason that we get these bogus VP candidates instead of Huckabee, Romney, Clinton and all the other bigger names that have been thrown around: no one with any sense and other job options wants to be the VP.
September 1st, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Let’s think back to all the past presidential elections in which the vice presidential candidates played a meaningful role in the outcome.
McGovern’s bumbling of the selection doomed his campaign.
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