Jonathan Last points out the Battlestar Galactica angle on the Republican slate:

Watching Palin’s introduction it became immediately clear that she looks uncannily like a young Laura Roslin.* This can only bode well for Palin. But the parallels don’t stop at her looks. Like Roslin, Palin was basically a private citizen (Roslin was a teacher, Palin was a reporter) before being pulled into politics. Neither seems to have had any larger ambition, until events pulled them into prominence. And both were immediately discounted by outside observers as being unequal to the demands of their new positions.

Jonathan, you’re such a geek. (And I say that very fondly, as I have all of season four on my DVR and am going to use every wile I have to not let Comcast make me change DVRs when I move next week.)

Like Adama and Roslin, McCain and Palin should complement each other well. I eagerly await the moment in the VP debate when Palin is asked what she would do with Osama bin Laden if he were captured. One assumes her answer will be some variation of, “Put that thing out the airlock.”

It’s a slam-dunk.

I’m getting emails from Hillary supporters telling me they’re now going to vote for McCain. Now we can shoot for the SF fan base.

Hat tip: Chris H.