Honestly, if voting for McCain and Palin means we get to see Tina Fey doing Palin impersonations for four years, then I’m all for it. Fey makes Palin likable beyond reason, and when I sit to watch and re-watch all the SNL clips with Fey playing Palin, I sometimes forget which is who and what any of it has to do with the government, which excites me a great deal. So much so that I’m wanting to get out the vote and make rock. Or get out the rock and make voters. Something with a rock and a vote and comedy.
I have no idea how elections are won and what one thing has to do with another when it comes to campaigning and mind washing, or why celebrities think they make a difference with their online viral videos. No idea at all. But I do idea that the candidate who is better parodied is the candidate who America chooses. Maybe it hasn’t always been like this, but it’s been this way for two decades, and I imagine it will continue to be this way. People like to laugh at jokes they understand.
Tina Fey plays the role of Sarah Palin. Tina Fey is Funny. Thus, Sarah Palin is funny so we should all vote for her. (Maybe it doesn’t work exactly that way.)
All I can say is that I’m planning to know what I’m voting for when the time comes. Hopefully it’s a bear in a tree safely removed from a harmful situation. (Ambiguity.) One of those endangered species types that suffers from strangely-hot weather.
It makes me smile.
Update:10/9/08
Just received (via snail mail) the latest edition of a weekly I subscribe to, and one of its comics is a total rip off of my Fey/Republican joke. How dare they! Okay, okay. Clearly they didn’t steal the idea from me, but the joke was obvious. I’m slipping.
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Tina Fey Wins The Election For Republicans was first posted to justinll.com on October 7, 2008.
I don’t like Tina Fey. Not because she’s not funny but because I hate anything associated with Jimmy Fallon. There I’ve said it. SNL is not funny. I don’t mean it doesn’t have moments. It does. Not funny moments. They toss around bad skits like so much volleyball. Oh, the days of Phil Hartman. “Fire bad!”
I’m also voting Black in ’08. Sorry Repub-lick-cats. I can’t in good con-science vote for McCain. I was all for him in 2000 versus Bush in the Primary, but time changes thangs’ and it changed Mickey McCain-ity for the worse. Plus I would rather have a black male president than a women any day. This ain’t no Falklands War this is the Iraqi/Afghani/Irani/Saudi/Qautari/Omani/Yemeni/Stani War fool. Best recognize.