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Sarah Palin’s Battlestar Galactica ties
Yourish.com — 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 ...

Adama-Roslin '08
Ross Douthat — Jonathan Last comes through with the perfect pop-culture analogy.

It's the Battlestar Galactica ticket
dustbury.com — Frakking seriously. Think about it for a moment: Watching [Sarah] 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, ...

Chicks Who Love Guns
The American Scene — You’ve no doubt heard about Palin as BSG’s President Roslin, but this Daily Mail image makes me think of Lt. Ripley learning to shoot in Aliens. Aside from her overt conservatism, Palin comes across as a nearly textbook-perfect Cameronian superwoman. Don’t mess with that gun-totin’ mama! I’m also reminded of this classic bit from Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown. (No doubt the first thing Tarantino said when hearing about her nomination was, “But ...

Life imitates post-apocalyptic pop art
Ben Smith's Blog — ... And, as Jonathan Last notes, Sarah Palin looks like a young President Laura Roslin -- the former Secretary of Education who became president of the human race out of nowhere after the robotic Cylons killed almost all of them in a surprise nuclear strike. ...