Tigh/Roslin Ticket Will Provide Strength and Purpose in Defeating Democrats Cylons

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mojo-photo-caprica.jpgThe presidential campaign has officially headed for outer space. As all of MoJoBlog as well as everyone everywhere is currently discussing, John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin for VP was kind of kooky. But it all makes sense if you’re deep in Battlestar Galactica fantasyland: sci-fi blog io9 has a breakdown of the McCain=Colonel Tigh/Palin=President Roslin “meme,” as they call it, noting the similarities aren’t just physical: Col. Tigh was tortured by the Cylons, and Roslin was Secretary of Education (I guess that equals PTA).

Now we already have a Tigh/Roslin campaign website, which is mostly amusing just for its visual nose-thumb at McCain’s site, although the idea of Roslin winning “Most Likely to Airlock a Cylon” in the Miss Caprica beauty pageant is pretty amusing. Unfortunately, io9 says we can’t laugh about it any more, since “it took less than five hours for the meme to go from funny to tired.” Gods damn it! Can we still be amused by Palin’s resemblance to Tina Fey?

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