Separated at Birth

A friend of mine wrote me a note the other day about how the conservative pundit William Kristol (who, it must be noted, has an impressive track record of being wrong) has been pushing for a conservative 3rd party candidate to run, as an alternative to Donald Trump.  (In fairness, look out the window and the first person you spot is an alternative to Donald Trump.

The person who was been mentioned as the likely Kristol candidate is a fellow named David French, who is a lawyer, writer, Bronze Star recipient and has zero chance of getting a single electoral vote, but conceivably could draw some conservative votes from Trump.  What my friend noted, however, has nothing to do with politics, but rather the uncanny resemblance he felt that David French had with veteran character actor Bob Clendenin, who was a semi-regular on Scrubs, The Closer and has a great many more credits in his long career.

The reality, of course, is that Mr. Clendenin has about the same chance as Mr. French, though as I noted that isn't William Kristol's goal here, but to siphon conservative votes.  It's a good goal, I think, though even that would seem to have as little chance of success as most of William Kristol's lamebrain ideas.  I'm not sure if David French used an industrial-strength sucking device he will siphon off many votes.  But who knows?  Godspeed.

​Mainly, I'm just impressed that my friend know the name of Bob Clendenin...