The thought of vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin becoming president strikes Academy Award-winner Matt Damon as ineluctable, scary and “absurd,” just like “a bad Disney movie” – should John McCain be elected president.

In a very straightforward interview with the Associated Press, “The Bourne Ultimatum” star Matt Damon said John McCain winning the November presidential election would soon lead to Sarah Palin becoming president. And no good could come of that, added Damon.

“You do the actuary tables, there’s a one out of three chance, if not more, that McCain doesn’t survive his first term, and it’ll be President Palin,” commented Damon.

He likened this possibility with “a really bad Disney movie” which could bear the title “The Hockey Mom.”

“‘Oh, I’m just a hockey mom from Alaska,’ and she’s president. She’s facing down Vladimir Putin and using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. It’s absurd,” the 37-year-old thespian said.

Damon further said voters need to know more about Palin’s views on creationism and censorship and to keep in mind that “she was a mayor of a really, really small town” and “she was governor of Alaska for less than two years.”

“I think the pick was made for political purposes but in terms of governance it’s a disaster,” said Damon.

The actor is endorsing Barack Obama, having donated $4,600 to Barack Obama and $28,500 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee this year.

The interview took place this week in Toronto, during the Toronto Film Festival, where Damon was promoting ONEXONE, a Canadian children’s charity expanding to the U.S.

Palin’s camp was prompt in answering to Damon’s comments. Maria Comella, a spokeswoman for Palin, told the AP that the actor’s expressed views amounted to “little more than blatant name-calling.”

Comella was just as incisive as Damon, saying the Democratic presidential nominee and his “celebrity supporters” are clearly “threatened by a candidate who actually has a record of achieving reform and change, while Barack Obama just talks about it.”

Matt Damon was only 27, in 1997, when he received not one but two Academy Award nominations, of which he won one: Best Actor and Original Screenplay, together with Ben Affleck, the latter his own trophy to keep.

“Good Will Hunting” catapulted Damon into stardom and he has well kept his place there.