Hillary Can't Be Geena (Just as Howard Couldn't be Martin)

John Fund has an article in today's Wass Street Journal comparing the new Geena Davis show Commander in Chief with Hillary Clinton's 2008 Presidential bid.

I think Fund misses a central point. The fact just can't compete with the fiction.

Geena is an athletically gifted, beautiful woman whereas Hillary isn't. Davis will be protrayed in a positive light with everything literally scripted. Hillary will have every yawn, mis-step and nose pick magnified.

A perfect example of the truth not coming close to the fiction was seen in this last Presidential election. We had a highly educated liberal governor of a New England state who holds a doctorate and whose wife is an MD coming from obscurity to become the front runner in the race for president. That's the backstory to both Martin Sheen's character Jeb Bartlett in The West Wing and of Howard Dean. The problem is - the truth couldn't match the scripted fiction and the Dean campaign fell apart.

Hillary will likewise not look good in comparison to Geena Davis' character just as Howard Dean came up way short in comparison to Jeb Bartlett. The comparison will be fun to make for a while but in the end it will probably harm Hillary more than help her.