A Political Ticket for Battlestar Fans

                                     Just about every woman that wears glasses and her hair up in a bun is getting compared to Sarah Palin and yes, there is a Laura Roslin resemblance. What I didn’t notice until someone else pointed it out to me is how much Palin and John McCain together look like Laura Roslin and Col. Saul Tigh of Galactica’s Colonial Fleet.

– Pictured: Mary McDonnell as Laura Roslin,Michael Hogan as Col. Saul Tigh –SCI FI Channel Photo: Carole Segal

The scary part is the pair have some things in common. Ok, so Roslin doesn’t sport the hairdo but she’s certainly got the rest of the Palin look and definitely the pit bull personality. If it comes down to humanity’s safety, there’s nothing Roslin won’t do. You want to talk about the Bush Doctrine? The Roslin Doctrine can be summed up in a single word:airlock. It’s as much a part of her political strategy as shaking hands and kissing babies would be for a normal politico.

She’s also a candidate that the religious right could get behind. Roslin is all about her faith in BSG’s deities. It was her visions that first started the humans on the path to Earth. Like Palin, Roslin was largely a political unknown. Nobody would have expected Roslin to get anywhere near the presidency as the Secretary of Education.

And of course, there are McCain’s similarities to Saul Tigh. Both could be correctly characterized, I think, as grumpy old men. And it’s hard to blame them as they were both prisoners of war. Neither has forgotten what that felt like. Both are prone to sometimes inappropriate bursts of humor. Who can forget Tigh telling Tory to get info from Gaius Baltar and cautioning her that she didn’t have to get on her back.

McCain is still trying to live down his “Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran” miscue. Both Tigh and McCain like the young blondes, Cindy McCain and Tigh’s baby mama Caprica Six. It remains to be seen if the “Battlestar” vote will help them at the polls, but stranger things have happened. But if Baltar shows up in the cabinet, be very afraid.