In welcome relief from the news that Sarah Palin is quitting her job, her SNL co-star, Alec Baldwin, announced he now wants one just like it.
With a performance of scenery-chewing bravura so deftly delivered in NBC’s ’30 Rock,’ the famously liberal Hollywood star has subtly rebooted a stagnant career, and now wants to turn all the new-found attention into a Congressional bid for mid-2012. “The desire is there, that’s one component,” he told a reporter for Playboy. “The other component is opportunity.”
Asked if one option might be to take over when that other Hollywood actor vacates Sacramento, Alec was quite clearly reluctant, “But I would have to live in California,” he said, clearly choked by the thought. “And who wants to live in California??”
As for who would be his ideal opponent, Alec’s first choice is Joe Liebermann, the former conservative Democrat. But Joe’s from Connecticut, and the 51-year old actor’s roots and first love are firmly focused on his hometown of New York. “Here anything can happen,” he said. “People get offered lucrative deals and want to make money for their retirement – They mess up. Unfortunately, an opportunity for me may mean bad things for someone else.”
And the man knows about messing up – During a bitter custody battle with ex-wife, Kim Basinger in 2002, Kim’s lawyers leaked a voice-mail in which Alec called his 12-year-old daughter a “thoughtless little pig.”
On the upside, his fitness for politics is just as unvarnished; When his SNL tenure gave him the chance to meet Sarah Palin, he unofficially re-christened her, ‘Bible Spice’ – but was quick to admit he wouldn’t want hers to be the finger that got close to the button.
With SNL teammate, Al Franken now in the Senate and ‘House’s Kal Penn [Dr. Kutner] being released from the show to promote the arts in the White House, Alec is certainly on the cusp of a trend. But this is the man who, on his Huffington blog, called former-VP, Dick Cheney, ‘a lying, thieving Oil Whore,’ and ‘a murderer of the US Constitution.’
So his sense of diplomacy might just need a tweak before he reaches D.C.
Source: Times
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