Whoa . . . I never even knew Megan Mullally was a Republican

I mean . . . ?

Come on, don't pretend like I was the only one who initially thought John McCain had chosen Megan Mullally, the actress who played Karen Walker on Will and Grace, as his running mate.

OK, so maybe it is a little ludicrous in hindsight. But when the announcement that McCain had named his No. 1 was made last week, I was overly tired, decompressing from another hundred hour work week at the toilet paper factory, kind of comatosely staring at the TV, possibly buzzed off a novelty liqueur . . . you get the picture. Not to mention that I hadn't actually heard the name Sarah Palin mentioned yet -- all CNN kept saying was that McCain had made this left field pick, and that the person was a woman. So in my jacked up state, I thought for a split second I saw Karen up there at the podium, rockin' some cleave and drunkenly waving an American flag around. And I was like, "What the fuuuuuuuuck . . . ? When did Megan Mullally get all political?"

And even though I was consciously aware the whole time that Karen had just been a persona Mullally played, not . . . . an actual . . . person . . . I still half expected her to tip back a martini, turn to Laura Bush, frown at her outfit and say in that absurdly high-pitched voice, "Honey, what's that, what's going on, what's happening here?"

Aww, hell. I'll admit it -- as far as sitcom reruns on Lifetime go, for my money it doesn't get much better than Karen Walker. Shit, I love her so much I (tried to) dress up like her for Halloween a couple years ago. So imagine my disappointment when, on closer inspection, I saw the vice presidential nominee was actually this four-eyed Walker wannabe from Alaska.

Still though, note Gov. Sarah Palin's hairdo, her bone structure, her clothes . . . if those glasses ever came off, the resemblance to Karen would be uncanny, wouldn't it?

WOULDN'T IT????

Mmm. Mmm. Mmm.

I know I'm not alone here when I say the only thing this foxy politico from the Igloo Sate is missing from her repertoire is a gay sidekick, an El Salvadoran servant and a bottle of Bennies.