Four Films Proving Sarah Palin is Exactly Like Peter Sellers

Yesterday, Gawker compared Sarah Palin to a political figure with overt Biblical metaphorical ties. No, not McCain (he's as old as Methusaleh), but rather Chauncey Gardener, the main character in the classic Peter Sellers' film Being There.

This isn't the first time that a complete unknown has come so close to the presidency—at least not if one includes Hollywood fantasies.The best of them is Being There, a movie made during the last period of national distress in which a mild-mannered and subnormal gardener played by Peter Sellers stumbles into the political spotlight. His bromides on the seasons are taken as reassuring economic wisdom; his television interviews test off the charts; and in the final scene the party establishment clutches at him as their savior much as the McCain campaign selected Sarah Palin.

I see how the metaphor is apt, but there are a few flaws. As slow as Chauncey Gardener may be, I bet he could define the Bush Doctrine. Also, Sarah Palin's TV interviews didn't exactly test off the charts, now did they?

Chauncey Gardener is more like Barack Obama, because I'm pretty sure they both can walk on water. Still, there may be something to this whole Peter Sellers/Sarah Palin analogy.

After the jump, I countdown four classic Peter Sellers films that serve as better metaphors for Sarah Palin's career.

First of all, this movie has two names. Similarly, you can call Sarah Palin by her two nicknames, Barracuda or How I Learned to Stop Blinking and Love Bombing Interviews. Pretty strong coincidence, huh?

In Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers plays three characters, one of which is the mousy President Muffley. Though Sarah dreams one day of becoming president, there is nothing mousy about her. The same problem arises with Sellers' other character, Colonel Mandrake. Palin wouldn't be feeding General Jack D. Ripper ammunition. She'd be pumping her own pellets, shooting at the Ruskies. She can snipe them from her house!

Palin is obviously a mirror image of the title character, Dr. Strangelove in that they are both made out of pure opportunistic evil. I don't even feel the need to further prove my case, because it's pretty clear they are the exact same person. Also, I am lazy.

In The World of Henry Orient, two teenage girls obsessed with Peter Sellers' character, Henry Orient, follow him around thwarting his advances with numerous women. This is obviously a 44 years-ahead-of-it's-time metaphor for Sarah Palin. All she wants is to fuck over the American people, but the pesky media, completely obsessed by her presence, is driving us away by reminding everyone she has a mustache. Oh, wait, Peter Sellers is the one with the mustache. They are so alike, I got them confused!

In the first of the Pink Panther series, Sellers plays the bumbling Inspector Clouseau, a man blissfully unaware of his own ineptitude. Need I say more? This may as well be the Sarah Palin biopic.

The only difference is Inspector Clouseau is more experienced in foreign policy.

The only thing connecting Casino Royale to Palin is that it's not a very good movie and she's not a very good Vice Presidential candidate. Nonetheless, as far as spoofs go, both Palin and Royale share some funny moments.

Despite it's charm, I'm pretty sure I don't want this movie to be my Vice President either.