Berlusconi: I’m Christ of politics
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has compared himself to both, prompting the open scorn of his political opponents and even the quietly raised eyebrows of his coalition partners. “I am the Jesus Christ of politics,” Italian media quoted him as saying at a dinner with supporters on Saturday night. “I am a patient victim, I put up with everyone, I sacrifice myself for everyone.”
My initial reaction when I heard Berlusconi’s claim was that he’s out of her ever-lovin’ mind…and he may well be. Still, he got me to thinking. If Silvio Berlusconi is the Jesus Christ of politics, who would be the alter ego of other political figures? Of course, I’m just a cynical, Liberal bastard, but here’s my take (this is why I love Wikipedia):
George W. Bush: the Timothy McVeigh of politics
Dick Cheney: the Tomas de Torquemada of politics
Condoleeza Rice: the Mary Stuart of politics
Tom DeLay: the Niccolo Machiavelli of politics
Bill Frist: the Josef Mengele of politics
Dennis Hastert: the Bob Keeshan of politics
Karl Rove: the Joseph Goebbels of politics
Pat Robertson: the Roy Cohn of politics
Laura Bush: the Eva Braun of politics
Arlen Specter: the Robert Blake of politics
Grover Norquist: the Albert Henry DeSalvo of politics
Bill O’Reilly: the Osama bin Laden of politics
Sean Hannity: the Macaulay Culkin of politics
Rick Perry: the tabula rasa of politics
Rush Limbaugh: the Vidkun Quisling of politics
Ann Coulter: the Dennis Rader of politics
Michelle Malkin: the Monroe Andrew Perry of politics
Kathleen Parker: the Paris Hilton of politics
Roger Ailes: the Oliver Cromwell of politics
Laura Ingraham: the Nicole Ritchie of politics
Ken Mehlman: the Oscar Wilde of politics
Tony Blair: the Jerry Lewis of politics
Tommy Thompson: the Harpo Marx of politics
Donald Rumsfeld: the William Wallace of politics
Scott McClellan: the Pee Wee Herman of politics
John Boehner: the Jeff Skilling of politics
