Female President Impeached

At the beginning of the TV season, no show had as much promotion or positive spin as "Commander in Chief", a show featuring a female President of the U.S. The debut ratings were huge and the reviews glowing...and it sunk like a rock after that. ABC has finally pulled the show from the schedule.

Could this have any repercussions on the 2008 race? Newsmax thinks it might:

"Commander in Chief” started out as the season’s most talked-about new show, but the initial hype didn’t translate into solid ratings – and ABC has shelved the White House drama.

The network announced over the weekend that it is pulling the show – which stars Geena Davis as the first female president – until spring to make way for a new comedy, "Sons & Daughters.” The "Commander" show will be off the air for at least six weeks, the New York Post reports.

That can’t be good news for Hillary Clinton. NewsMax columnist James Hirsen has called "Commander in Chief” a "series-style Hillary campaign commercial.”

ABC insiders denied there’s any connection between Hillary and "Commander.” But the show’s lead writer, Steve Cohen, served as the then-first lady’s deputy communications director in the 1990s.

In October, NewsMax reported that disgraced former national security adviser Sandy Berger had signed on as an adviser to the show, joining fellow Clintonistas Cohen and Capricia Marshall, the former social secretary for the Clinton White House.

I don't think you can draw direct correlations between TV shows and real life, so I discount the effect on Hillary's campaign. For one thing, Geena Davis is far more likeable than Hillary, so I would expect Hillary to do much worse than Davis.