Resistance Is Futile: Alec Baldwin for OH Guv!

There is no way I’m going to resist the link traffic forthcoming from a howler like this ….

Movie star ALEC BALDWIN has been given the opportunity to launch his political career in Ohio by a local law firm keen to back a bid to make him the state’s next Governor.

The Cooler star has often spoken about his political aspirations and now he has gone public with his plans to retire from acting in 2012, a group of leading Ohio businessmen want him to consider running for office there.

He tells Playboy magazine, “A law firm in a liberal Democratic bastion in Ohio state politics sent me a binder with a cover letter that read: “Mr. Baldwin, here’s who we represent, the kinds of cases we handle, our credentials in Ohio state politics. We want you to move to Ohio and run for Governor. We will launch your career.’”

Lawyers at the law firm Dewey, Cheetum & Howe, apparently worn out from stealing a US Senate seat in Minnesota for Al Franken, were apparently unavailable for comment.

Gee, I wonder what Baldwin’s party of choice would be?

Baldwin’s bio at Wikipedia shows no evidence that Baldwin has any meaningful connection to Ohio (unlike other celebrity state governors Schwarzenegger and Ventura of CA and MN, respectively).

But the Wiki entry does have these nuggets, and many more:

• Ohio’s farmers will be pleased to know that “Baldwin is an animal rights activist. He is a strong supporter of PETA and has done work for the organization including narrating the video entitled Meet your Meat.” Andy at BuckeyeAg, call your office.
• “When interviewed by the New York Times, Baldwin was asked what public office he would consider running for, he replied: ‘If I ever ran for anything, the thing I would like to be is governor of New York.‘” New York, Ohio, whatev.
• “During his appearance on the comedy late night show Late Night with Conan O’Brien on December 12, 1998, eight days before President Bill Clinton was to be impeached, Baldwin said ‘if we were in another country… we would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families, for what they’re doing to this country.’ Baldwin apologized, and the network explained it was meant as a joke and promised not to rerun it.” I’ve seen it plenty of times. Dude was not joking; dude was angry. God help us if he ever got any real power.
• “(In an) editorial, Baldwin compared the ‘damage done’ by George W. Bush’s controversial victory in the 2000 election to that of the damage done by the September 11, 2001 attacks.” Because soooo many innocent people died during Florida 2000.
• “On a May 12 Late Show with David Letterman appearance in 2009, Baldwin made a joke about getting a ‘Filipino mail-order bride…or a Russian one’ in order to have more children. Baldwin was targeted by members of the Filipino community who were offended, including Senator Ramon ‘Bong’ Revilla, Jr. of the Philippines. Baldwin later apologized for the remark via his Huffington Post blog; the Philippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs has not lifted the ban on the actor from entering the country due to his status as an ‘undesirable alien.’“

Let me suggest that Baldwin would also be an “undesirable alien” in Buckeye State politics — which would of course make him the perfect Democratic Party candidate.