Wonkette

Something sort of familiar about scary old McCain and shrill Mrs. President Palin? Yes, they are the space monsters from teevee’s Battlestar Galactica — the doomed leaders of a spaceship filled with frantic losers running for their lives from the PLANET THEY DESTROYED … we think. We have not actually watched this show, but we vaguely recall the terrible original version from 1942. You people, in the comments, will very quickly display an encyclopedic knowledge of the show, and how it proves McCain-Palin will destroy our planet, too. [Tigh-Roslin 2008 via Cryptogon]

Here’s some breaking campaign 2008 news: John McCain is still an alcoholic godless fascist 9th-generation military creep, but he is also a space monster. We learned this from an Ivy League College Newspaper:

The Wonkette writers were too close for comfort when they wrote: “John McCain Running for President of Death Star.” I would argue it’s a little more Babylon 5 than Star Wars, but the point is well taken. In fact, as I watched the clip , I realized why the cranky, alcoholic Colonel Tigh of Battlestar Galactica seems so familiar: He looks just like the esteemed Senator from Arizona.

A Series of Unfortunate Events [Harvard Independent]