The Hair Club for Governors

Poor Roland Burris, turned away at the Capitol door got me thinking about everyone's favorite governor, Rod Blagojevich.

More specifically, it got me thinking about Gov. Blagojevich's hair.

His hair has been discussed before, sure (Salon wrote, "Blagojevich may not be bright, but he's good looking," which I have to disagree with, but I assume they couldn't look beyond that massive think mane of his.), but it's also been SEEN before. Where? On just about every other governor in the U.S. of A.

Why, just look at Texas Governor Rick Perry:   

That is some hair, am I right?!? And his posture, his smile, it all seems very familiar, like another Texas governor from the past. No! Not that one! THIS ONE.

In fact, there is quite a string of thickly coiffed governors in this great nation of ours:

 
That's NM Gov. Bill Richardson on left, Alabama Gov. Bob Riley (which was unfortunately labeled "photo-sexoffender[1]" from the state's media site when I downloaded it)  in the center, and the best governor name EVER, Butch Otter, governor of Idaho on the right.

BUT WAIT! There's more!

     

Other members of the Hair Club for Governors include, from left to right, Florida's Bill Crist, Utah's Jon Huntsman, West Virginia's Joe Manchin III, and--in a picture so perfectly angled, it's as if the hair gods were watching over me--South Dakota's Gov. Mike Rounds.

The hair similarities are uncanny, no? Thick, sweeping, parted (except for Manchin, whose hairline puzzles me), the kind of hair you can run your hands through while working late nights on education reform, etc. (?!?) This survey, conducted by a hair restoration company so take it for what it's worth, found that 65 percent of 1000 respondants felt that "good hair" equals success. Hey, it worked for JFK.

It's almost as if the hair has some sort of star power in of itself. Of course, the epitome of governor hair that's good enough for the silver screen belongs to none other than the Governator himself.

One more example.

I don't know how they did it, but along with the thick hair, Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe  is a freakin' DEAD RINGER for Bill Clinton, don't you think??

Which makes me wonder, is it the actual hair or is it the memory of the hair that makes its wearer so successful?

Sing it with me, "Memories, like the corners of my mind. Misty, water-colored memories, of The Way We Were."

God, Redford's hair was amazing. He could've totally been governor.