Fran Drescher for Senator Shmenator

She's a cancer survivor, we get it. Good for her. She beat it. She's a great fundraiser. She speaks Spanish, Yiddish and some form of English. The sound of her laugh gives that Sarah Palin turkey-in-the-background noise a run for its money.

Fran Drescher is a lot of things -- but the next Senator from New York?

It's been awhile since I've seen The Nanny, so I spent some time researching Frannie last night using old school methods such as TV Land and IMDB.

My conclusion on Senator Nanny: It couldn't hurt!

We know how you people like lists, so, with ALL deference to David Letterman, here are my top ten reasons why I'm supporting Frannie as our next U.S. Senator from the Empire State.

1. She's actually from New York
2. During his meeting with her, Gov. David Patterson probably wished he were deaf too
3. Tony Manero turned her down as a dance partner in Saturday Night Fever; although he did
filibuster with her quite often in the flick. (Say it aloud...it makes the filibuster line funnier)
4. Renee Taylor who played her mother on The Nanny would make a fantastic chief of staff
5. Latkes in the Senate Chamber on Chanukah!
6. Along with Chuck Schumer, New York's Senate team will combine to have the most annoying
voices in the U.S. history
7. After working with Snoop Dogg on a commercial, she knows how to shizzle her fazizzle
8. As a sitcom star, she's used to only working 13 weeks a year
9. She's from Flushing...home of the New York Mets
10. She looks like my wife and my wife's hot

Comments

[khofthe209]

Fran Drescher would make a brilliant choice! She's smart, self made, a tested and skilled negotiator (in business as a successful television show producer nonetheless), and a native New Yorker. Oh - - and a REAL person - - - we could use a few of those in the Senate.

[yerachm]

Hey - if Sarah Palin was given a shot at VP, with a good likelihood of ending up in the Oval Office by default, I say GO FRAN!
These days the number one qualification for high office should be decency, followed by intelligence.
Fran's got both.

[RRonin]

Franken had the opportunity to be on Air America and show he was more than a satirist (the MSM insists on calling him a "comedian", I'll bet the man has never done standup, but it DOES succeed in making him appear more lightweight). Drescher hasn't had the opportunity to show people that she's more than just a pretty face and a voice like a young Selma Diamond. It's quite likely she's smarter than a lot of people who currently hold seats in the Senate.

[NABNYC]

I don't understand the responses to Fran Drescher's announcement that she would like to be Senator. I don't recall hearing the same when Al Franken said he wanted to be Senator. Or did I just miss that part? Now that I think about it, I don't remember reading this level of dismissive comments about Ah-nold when he said he wanted to be governor. I don't recall hearing this level of ridicule about most of the privileged white men who decide to run for Senator every time there is an election. Why is that?

Isn't the fact that men are presumed to be intelligent and capable, and women are assumed to be not so smart and probably incompetent? What is the basis for that other than bigotry? We have the "connected" women who are accepted into the old boy's club: their father, brother, husband are big pols, so they're allowed into the club. But for all the other women, what an uphill battle they face.

I don't know if Fran Drescher would be a good candidate. But I'm concerned by the almost universal decision by the media to ridicule her because of a TV show she did decades ago. Didn't Reagan do something like Bedtime for Bozo? Wouldn't the better course be to simply look at her experience, certainly including her cancer education work, and judge her on that?

[jasonball]

Franken and Arnold were/are mocked.

In the case of Franken, he is nearly tied and might possibly lose to one of the most vulnerable Senators of this election cycle in a state that is so blue it's almost green. It is hard to say that in the face of a potential defeat or remarkably narrow victory to the likes of a Norm Coleman, that Franken's candidacy is widely supported. Remember Coleman only got in there to begin with because Paul Wellstone died shortly before election day, Coleman has racked up a reputation for corruption and mismanagement, and is generally disliked by Minnesotans. The fact that Coleman appears to be the lesser of two evils to half of Minnesotans means that even if Franken wins, he isn't exactly "victorious."

Arnold has been, is, and will continue to be mocked the world over. The only problem for those us in California is that people seem to derride him publicly and then pull the lever for him come election day.

To Franken's credit, he has focused his attention to a large degree on politics in a way that neither Franken or Arnold did.

[Witkacy]

>I don't remember reading this level of dismissive comments about Ah-nold when he said he wanted to be governor.

Whoa - you're joking, right? You missed the part where millions of better informed & more intelligent voters woke up in shock the day after Election Day to think that that Austrian muscleman was elected Governor by a bunch of shitheads? And because Arnold somehow took that office, you're all for a performer with a high-school education taking the Senate seat in one of the greatest states in the Union? For real?