Celebrity Shocker: Matt Damon to run for President in 2012

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Hollywood, CA (TSN) – In a surprise move, Matt Damon declared his intention to run for President in 2012. Damon, who announced his bid on Youtube, cited Sarah Palin as an inspiration.
“Look, it just makes sense. If Sarah Palin can run for Vice-President, which is like a really bad Disney movie, then why not me running for President? Crap, I’ve actually made some really bad movies, so I’m even more qualified than she is.”
Damon, who is an Obama supporter, said he would only run in 2012 if Obama fails in his bid this time around. Damon explained, “I think I could take him, but Obama is the most qualified in this race to hold the nuclear codes since he doesn’t know when life begins but he probably knows when dinosaurs were on earth. You know, Palin thinks dinosaurs were on earth, like 4,000 years ago. I wouldn’t trust anyone with nuclear codes who thinks that.”
Damon, who has criticized Sarah Palin as being just a hockey mom, said he is infinitely more qualified to stand up to world leaders, like Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
“Hey, I took Sarah Silverman away from Jimmie Kimmel so I figure I can stand up to Putin.”
Damon is willing to use his own resources to fund his campaign, saying, “I would have paid like a million dollars to get Kerry elected in ’04, so who knows how much I’ll spend on myself.”
In an unconventional move, Damon says Arianna Huffington would be on his Veep short list.
On the web: Matt Damon speaks out about Sarah Palin

13 thoughts on “Celebrity Shocker: Matt Damon to run for President in 2012”

  1. Karen,
    Or what Pink thinks – which is an oxymoron.
    Is this an example of the compassionate, thoughtful and caring Christian attributes you seem to tout so loudly?
    Matt Damon is hilarious! 🙂

  2. ken, I think the overall message of Warren’s post is – who gives a rip about what Matt Damon thinks about Sarah Palin? Or what Pink thinks – which is an oxymoron. Or what Pamela Anderson thinks – ditto.

  3. Ever since the McCain pulled Palin out of his hat the real news has become more absurd than the Onion.

  4. So apparently Warren you’re only interested discussing the easily dismissed political exaggerations about Palin. Or talk about how the press is picking on poor Sarah. But when someone actually brings up valid concerns about her, you want to make jokes and try to laugh it off as nothing. You’ve learned your political dodges well.

  5. Thanks Ken, but I know that about the voting thing.
    Where I used to live in Delaware, the only way to vote in a primary was to declare a party and vote for candidates in that party. I understand from the courthouse clerk here in Wisconsin that one can vote for either party’s candidates in the primaries by declaring so that day. And you may change that at will in any future primaries. If I understood that correctly, I really like it, since I was registered as an Independent from 1968-1994.
    I smiled tonight when Charlie Gibson suggested Governor Palin’s positive answers about her readiness and qualifications for the VP were “hubris.” How would he have preferred she answer? “No, I really don’t think I’m ready and I’m actually unqualified for the job. But you know what? I’m going to do it anyway.”
    That would be hubris.
    What Palin demonstrated tonight – as she has all along – is confidence. It’s a shame Charlie Gibson can’t tell the difference. Or, maybe that ole devil sexism is still alive and kickin’. The liberal media seems to have a death wish in regard to women voters. Gibson just put another nail in the coffin.

  6. I don’t understand Reps. They could have easily swept the stage just by giving a call to Chuck Norris. They had to come up with this old veteran guy and his female copilot (she does look a bit like a flight attendant, though…).
    Maybe they’re keeping the big guns for the next elections, when Damon’s gonna run. Makes sense.

  7. Karen Booth said in post 126181:
    It was a personal thrill to discover that I could register to vote in Wisconsin – even the primaries – without having to declare a party!
    You can register to vote in a general election in any state without having to declare a political party. However, whether you would be allowed to vote in a primary varies among the states.

  8. Damon questioned whether Palin believe dinosaurs were on earth 4000 years ago and then made some connection to nuclear codes. He also was infamous for being a nemesis of Jimmie Kimmel in a spoof involving Kimmel former girlfriend Sarah Silverman. But this is a spoof, sorry if the attempt failed with you.

  9. Warren asked in post a href=”#comment-126189″>126189:
    Ken – Did you ever read the Onion? Or The Spoof?
    No, I haven’t. Are you saying you must made those things up in an attempt to be humourous?

  10. I hadn’t been paying much attention to the Presidential race until Palin came on board. The cynical and apolitical side of me agrees with one of the posts I read earlier this week – that the election campaigning in many ways is a lot like “Alien vs. Predator,” with none of us coming out better for it in the end. (It was a personal thrill to discover that I could register to vote in Wisconsin – even the primaries – without having to declare a party!)
    One word keeps coming to me, though, over and over again and particularly as left-dominated media folk respond to the Palin pick.
    Hubris.
    Thinly disguised – or boldly proclaimed – it’s “excessive pride or self-confidence, arrogance.”
    Yes, folk on the right manifest it, too. But Matt Damon epitomizes it. (And so does Joy Behar.) The scary thing is, there are folk in America who would actually vote for him.

  11. Warren,
    what is your source for these quotes:
    You know, Palin thinks dinosaurs were on earth, like 4,000 years ago. I wouldn’t trust anyone with nuclear codes who thinks that.”
    “Hey, I took Sarah Silverman away from Jimmie Kimmel so I figure I can stand up to Putin.”
    and this claim you made.
    In an unconventional move, Damon says Arianna Huffington would be on his Veep short list.
    They are not in the video clip or the text you link to. In fact the video clip makes it pretty clear Damon isn’t claiming Palin believes dinosaurs lived 4000 years ago. He says he wants to know if she does believe that or not, i.e. does she believe in creationism. Frankly, I’d like to know the answer to that as well. And what her stance is on banning books.

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