Actor Alec Baldwin is a “card-carrying Democrat” who plays an “über Republican” on TV, said Jeremy P. Jacobs in The Hill. And it looks as if he is auditioning for new role: politician. In an interview with Playboy, Baldwin says he’s been asked to run for governor of Ohio, and would “love” to take on Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, but would probably run for office in New York, if at all. “He said it is all ‘fantasy,’ but I would pay to watch a Baldwin/Lieberman race.”
You’re out of luck, said Alec Baldwin in The Huffington Post. “I am not moving to Connecticut to run against Joe Lieberman.” Lieberman is “an enormous letdown” to the Democratic Party, but “running for public office involves among the most sacred trusts that one can enter into,” and it will take a lot of thought before I make that commitment to “the voters I would potentially serve.”
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