Republican Celebs

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OK, I have this odd interest in finding out what celebs are Republicans, and I came across this article. Now I know for a fact Dennis Hopper is NOT a Republican, unless a commercial for the Nation magazine that I saw him in years ago was a figment of my imagination. Are there any other names in this article that don't belong? I know Kelsey Grammer is a Republican, and I would believe Kid Rock is one, too. However, my b.s. detector went off the charts upon seeing Stephen Baldwin (!?) and Steve Tyler. So help a brotha out.

 

Oh, yeah -- OMG WASHINGTONSLIMES LOL2004!...

 

Republicans will do the flag-waving, boot-scootin' boogie when the curtain goes up on their national convention on Monday, with Madison Square Garden being declared a Springsteen-free zone.

 

Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie said yesterday that the final entertainment lineup for the event includes honky tonk, country, a little gospel, Christian rock, and some Southern-fried favorites. Sophisticated jazz, urban R & B and headbanger indie music will be in short supply.

 

Though the Republican brand of celebrity has little to do with Hollywood elites or East Coast cool, the party's showbiz instinct is very much intact.

 

Republicans "will 'play the Garden' this month," said Ed Harris, chief operating officer of the Republican National Convention, which will showcase the "momentum and excitement of the Republican Party."

 

But the down-home touch that the Bushes love is there.

 

Fresh from a "Red Dirt Road Tour" and a new album called "Steers and Stripes," country music superstars Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn headline the festivities.

 

Brooks & Dunn have had 22 No. 1 country hits, including "Boot Scootin' Boogie" and "Only in America," a tune about the American dream, which the duo most recently performed for 35,000 U.S. Marines — complete with the comely Coors Twins in camouflaged miniskirts.

 

The convention program also features country girl Lee Ann Womack, Latin artist Jaci Velasquez, Christian rock band Third Day, Texas pop band Dexter Freebish, country singer Darryl Worley and gospel vocalist Donnie McClurkin.

 

"I haven't really heard of a lot of these people, but I have an open mind. We'll have a good time. You'd be surprised how Republicans can party," noted one determined woman who was headed to the convention.

 

Other celebrities include Michael W. Smith, Daniel Rodriquez, Daize Shayne, Ron Silver, the Gatlin Brothers, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Sara Evans and Dana Glover.

 

Singer Wayne Newton, actor Stephen Baldwin and actress Bo Derek add to the Republican brand of star power — a topic that has come under much scrutiny in recent days.

 

"Some stars have GOP stripes," noted the Philadelphia Inquirer last week, which offered an overview of glittering big names who openly support the Republican Party, despite Democrats' claims that Republicans are both anti-celebrity and downright frumpy.

 

The Republican A-list includes comedian Dennis Miller, wrestler/actor The Rock, and actors Freddie Prinze Jr., Bruce Willis, Dennis Hopper, Tony Sirico, Robert Duvall, Jason Priestley, Shannen Doherty and Kelsey Grammer.

 

Other performers in President Bush's corner include musical performers Lynyrd Skynyrd, Chaka Khan, Kid Rock, Ricky Martin, Lee Greenwood, Britney Spears and Steven Tyler.

 

"We've got a unique celebrity lineup that will bridge generations and keep people on the edge of their seats, wondering what will happen next," White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. said last month.

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

Alice Cooper and Ted Nugent I believe.

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Alice Cooper's my new hero after reading this...

 

No more Mr. Nice Guy: Alice Cooper, a shock rocker back in the old days and now a fan of President Bush, says rock stars who've jumped on the John Kerry bandwagon -- Sheryl Crow, Dave Matthews, James Taylor and Bruce Springsteen among them -- are treasonous morons.

 

"To me, that's treason. I call it treason against rock-and-roll, because rock is the antithesis of politics. Rock should never be in bed with politics," the 56-year-old told the Canadian Press news service as he embarked last week on a 15-city Canadian tour.

 

Never one to avoid self-examination, Alice (aka Vincent Damon Furnier) added: "If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal." (We think he meant watching C-SPAN's "Washington Journal," or maybe he meant perusing the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, but either way you get the idea.)

 

"Besides, when I read the list of people who are supporting Kerry, if I wasn't already a Bush supporter, I would have immediately switched. Linda Ronstadt? Don Henley? Geez, that's a good reason right there to vote for Bush."

 

Meanwhile, the GOP announced Monday that the country duo Brooks & Dunn will headline the entertainment at the Republicans' convention next week in New York. Other talent includes country singer Lee Ann Womack, Christian rock band Third Day and gospel vocalist Donnie McClurkin. Party on!

[Guest Joshua A. Norton]

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[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

I don't believe a number of those names belong on that list, Arsenio for one, but I'll check this out. Oh, and Johnny Ramone is my f'n hero. I knew he'd be on that list...

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

Alice Cooper's my new hero after reading this...

 

No more Mr. Nice Guy: Alice Cooper, a shock rocker back in the old days and now a fan of President Bush, says rock stars who've jumped on the John Kerry bandwagon -- Sheryl Crow, Dave Matthews, James Taylor and Bruce Springsteen among them -- are treasonous morons.

 

"To me, that's treason. I call it treason against rock-and-roll, because rock is the antithesis of politics. Rock should never be in bed with politics," the 56-year-old told the Canadian Press news service as he embarked last week on a 15-city Canadian tour.

 

Never one to avoid self-examination, Alice (aka Vincent Damon Furnier) added: "If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal." (We think he meant watching C-SPAN's "Washington Journal," or maybe he meant perusing the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, but either way you get the idea.)

 

"Besides, when I read the list of people who are supporting Kerry, if I wasn't already a Bush supporter, I would have immediately switched. Linda Ronstadt? Don Henley? Geez, that's a good reason right there to vote for Bush."

 

Meanwhile, the GOP announced Monday that the country duo Brooks & Dunn will headline the entertainment at the Republicans' convention next week in New York. Other talent includes country singer Lee Ann Womack, Christian rock band Third Day and gospel vocalist Donnie McClurkin. Party on!

I got a kick out of his Staples back to school commercial.

 

I had also forgotten that pro athletes tend to be Republican.

 

EDIT: I looked it over a bit and Marilyn Manson's name really jumped out at me.

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Now I looked at a few, and some I'm calling b.s. on -- I don't believe Billy Bob Thorton is a Republican. Just because you send wipes to the troops you're aren't a conservative. Hell, Al Franken does a BUTT-load of USO Tours; doesn't mean he's a Bush fan.

 

But Sara Michelle Gellar? Steve Irwin? Damn...

[tommytomlin 0]

You forgot Bradshaw

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Back during this 2000 election I was surfing one of the thousands of wrestling Web sites out there that have since died and came across this story by the AP asking WWF wrestlers who they were voting for. If memory serves, every wrestler/McMahon said they were voting for Bush. Now a few weeks later I went back looking for that article and couldn't find it, and AP searches were in vain as well, so I have a doubt or two about the legitimacy of the article. But one quote I'll never forget was the Undertaker saying he wouldn't let his two girls anywhere near Bill Clinton. Real or not, that was a funny line -- the King of Darkness/American Bad Ass (or whatever he's called) not letting his kids go near Bill...

[bob_barron 0]

Norm Macdonald is also a big Republican.

 

Barbra: Well, that's just a taste of Norm MacDonald, who is very funny and slightly- slightly weird. But in the best possible and sweetest way.

 

Elizabeth: Hey, he likes Reagan.

 

Norm: Just because I like Reagan?

 

Barbra: No. Not at all! Not at all! That had nothing to do with it.

 

Norm: You know, there's a new book, there's a new book with Reagan's letters.

 

Barbra: Yes, and it's a wonderful book as a matter of fact. Yeah, anyway.

 

Joy: You're Canadian, what are you such a patriot all of a sudden?

 

Norm: I'm no longer going to be a Canadian, I'm going to, uh- uh, become an American because of Canada's, uh, just terrible, uh...

 

[People in the audience clap]

 

Joy: What? Spit it out. What? Terrible?

 

 

Norm: Well, Canada had a- a certain, uh- you know, they didn't help out in the unpleasantness.

 

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Stern and Norm talk politics. Norm goes as far as he’s ever gone in public by supporting George Bush and chastising Canada for not supporting the war in Iraq. Stern completely agrees with him and also supports Bush. It is interesting that NOW Stern is calling on his voters to vote out George Bush due to Bush only being a puppet for the radical religious right.

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Norm was also invited to the 2000 Inauguration

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Wow, Norm isn't on that list -- you're right.

 

Sad thing about Stern is that he makes a lot of good points in regards to political/social issues, but he's so off-base with his recent "fight" with Bush it's sad.

 

EDIT: Norm's on that list -- I missed him...

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That particular brand of Baldwin is a born-again so i would assume

he took the GOP route.

 

You guys can have Steven Tyler. Maybe he'll tie scarves around the

mics at MSG. Yik-gik-gik-gik-gow!~

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

If his Liv is part of the package, well then sure, even if she is knocked up...

[bob_barron 0]

He also once called Clinton and Gore murderers on the View when he was talking about the 2000 Election.

 

This weekend, veteran news anchorman David Brinkley apologized to Bill Clinton for an election night commentary in which he called the president, quote, "boring and uncreative." Admitted Brinkley: "There was certainly nothing uncreative about the way you moved Vince Foster's body." [mixed and mild reaction from the crowd] ... President's a murderer, you didn't know that?

[Guest TJH]

I thought Lynyrd Skynyrd died in a plane crash about 30 years ago...

 

Other performers in President Bush's corner include musical performers Lynyrd Skynyrd

 

Steve Irwin said John Howard was the greatest leader in the world, so he would be a Republican.

[Guest SP-1]

Good to see Third Day will be performing. Unexpected, but good.

 

And Cooper is right. Taking your political views from a celebrity is ludicrous. They're normal people who either act, sing, or play an instrument. I know people like that here on campus (some better than most celebrities at what they do), but I don't take my views from them. I read, I research what I need to know, and I choose based on my independent study.

 

I was close to being an Edwards supporter until I figured out that he took the party line on abortion.

[Guest MikeSC]

Most celebrities are less educated than the average person. Let's be honest.

-=Mike

[bob_barron 0]

Norm Macdonald was an 8th grade dropout and he's a pretty smart guy

[Guest BDC]

Anyone mention Chuck Norris?

 

*TWANG*

Cuz the eyes of the ranger are upon you, when you're in the voting booth you'll see. When you pull that lever look behind you, cuz that's where the ranger's gonna be.

[Guest SP-1]

Anyone mention Chuck Norris?

 

*TWANG*

Cuz the eyes of the ranger are upon you, when you're in the voting booth you'll see. When you pull that lever look behind you, cuz that's where the ranger's gonna be.

CE Post of the day, people.

[Guest Olympic Slam]

Alice Cooper's my new hero after reading this...

 

No more Mr. Nice Guy: Alice Cooper, a shock rocker back in the old days and now a fan of President Bush, says rock stars who've jumped on the John Kerry bandwagon -- Sheryl Crow, Dave Matthews, James Taylor and Bruce Springsteen among them -- are treasonous morons.

 

"To me, that's treason. I call it treason against rock-and-roll, because rock is the antithesis of politics. Rock should never be in bed with politics," the 56-year-old told the Canadian Press news service as he embarked last week on a 15-city Canadian tour.

 

Never one to avoid self-examination, Alice (aka Vincent Damon Furnier) added: "If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal." (We think he meant watching C-SPAN's "Washington Journal," or maybe he meant perusing the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, but either way you get the idea.)

 

"Besides, when I read the list of people who are supporting Kerry, if I wasn't already a Bush supporter, I would have immediately switched. Linda Ronstadt? Don Henley? Geez, that's a good reason right there to vote for Bush."

 

Meanwhile, the GOP announced Monday that the country duo Brooks & Dunn will headline the entertainment at the Republicans' convention next week in New York. Other talent includes country singer Lee Ann Womack, Christian rock band Third Day and gospel vocalist Donnie McClurkin. Party on!

When I heard these quotes on Glenn Beck on Tuesday, I quoted it to everyone and anyone who would listen the following day. So awesome!

[Jobber of the Week 0]

I don't believe a number of those names belong on that list, Arsenio for one, but I'll check this out. Oh, and Johnny Ramone is my f'n hero. I knew he'd be on that list...

He's considered a Republican because he supported Bush six months after 9/11?

 

I mean, maybe he is, but that's a pretty poor period for judging people's politics, since we all suddently turned into a nation of flag-salutin' motherfuckers for a while there after the attacks.

[Guest BDC]

I don't believe a number of those names belong on that list, Arsenio for one, but I'll check this out. Oh, and Johnny Ramone is my f'n hero. I knew he'd be on that list...

He's considered a Republican because he supported Bush six months after 9/11?

 

I mean, maybe he is, but that's a pretty poor period for judging people's politics, since we all suddently turned into a nation of flag-salutin' motherfuckers for a while there after the attacks.

B/c we fear the Republican fury of Chuck Norris~!

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

He's considered a Republican because he supported Bush six months after 9/11?

I know you're not talking about my boy Johnny.

 

Hey Ho LOL 2004...

 

For 100 nights a year over three decades, punk-rock guiterrorist Johnny Ramone stood with his head down, face in an intense scowl of concentration, legs shoulder-width apart, hammering at his blue Mosrite with a blurry right hand. The cacophony was pure bliss, a white noise ringing that punched holes in all that was peaceful, shards of the power chords busting into little aural stars, like the lights you see when you smack your head, only in your ears.

   

It was such good, loud pain.

 

Johnny dropped his job as a construction worker in 1974 and held down stage right for 22 years as the guitarist for the most influential rock band of the last 30 years. The Ramones fertilized the punk-rock scene first in their hometown of New York City, then in England. Eventually — who knew? — that sound would form the chassis for what the corporate rock industry later dubbed "alternative" and, eventually, infiltrated top 40.

 

He was a rebel in a rebel's world, though. Johnny Ramone was a fiercely Republican-voting, NRA-supporting musician in a milieu that is remarkable for its embrace of all things left.

 

Johnny went worldwide public with his partisanship in 2002, when the Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. At the microphone to give props to the people who made it all possible, he offered his own version of a Michael Moore moment.

 

"God bless President Bush, and God bless America," he said, clad in his trademark T-shirt, ripped blue jeans and leather jacket.

 

"I said that to counter those other speeches at the other awards," Mr. Ramone says in a phone interview. "Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves."

 

Johnny Ramone is at an easy point in his life, where "Blitzkrieg Bop" can be heard at sporting events as rev music and where the Ramones are widely cited as one of the most influential bands in the history of rock 'n' roll.

 

They never had a hit single, and none of their 14 original studio albums ever went gold. The Ramones did it because they loved it and had something to say.

 

"It was a job, and I was just doing my job," Mr. Ramone says now.

 

The Ramones were so far ahead of their time that Johnny Ramone makes more money each year, thanks to Ramones tunes used in advertisements, discerning record buyers paying their debt to history and the increasing number of Ramones reissues.

 

"I'm just honored that people still like us and people are still nice to me," he says, 55 years old and very retired in Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife, Linda, and their three cats.

 

He sold his guitars and amps when the Ramones finally got out of the van after 2,263 live shows.

 

L.A. is 3,000 miles from Queens, N.Y., where he was raised as John Cummings, but he is never far from his legacy. People still know him when they see him, even though he disputes his own celebrity.

 

"I really can't believe that my career has gone like it has," he says. "I don't need much more money, and I thought that when I retired that nobody would want to talk to me anymore. Then I did, and people still want to talk to me." He pals around with Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and John Frusciante from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, tooling about in his black Cadillac DeVille, "a good American car," Johnny says proudly.

 

He is an avid film buff, and he watches two flicks a day — sci-fi, horror or anything intense — and his private collection numbers 4,000.

 

He reads mostly books on film and baseball. He still buys music, "old rock 'n' roll, '50s is my favorite," he says. "I also get some early '70s stuff, punk stuff, but I think I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel now." He won't play any Ramones, but Linda does.

 

"Constantly," he says, with a weary resignation.

 

"Yeah, the first five albums," she says. The two click on politics though.

 

"I grew up a Republican," she says. "My family was the only Italian family in Queens that voted for Nixon instead of Kennedy."

 

Johnny was driven right by a youthful revulsion against, um, face-ism. "It was in 1960, the Nixon-Kennedy election," he says, recalling his first inclination toward the right. He was an only child of Irish heritage in a working-class neighborhood. Families on his block voted left, pro-union. "People around me were saying, 'Oh, Kennedy's so handsome,' and I thought, 'Well, if these people are going to vote for someone based on how he looks, I don't want to be party to that.' "

 

his news now, he hits the Drudge Report and Newsmax.com, Fox News' "Hannity and Colmes," and "The O'Reilly Factor." He listens daily to Rush Limbaugh and Michael Medved. In L.A., people spend a lot of time in their cars, and he uses that time to educate himself, he says.

 

His list of favorite Republicans should humble the Republican National Committee, or at least get him invited to a GOP fund-raiser: Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Charlton Heston, [actor and close friend] Vincent Gallo, Ted Nugent, Messrs. Limbaugh and Hannity, Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Wayne and Tom DeLay.

 

He relishes agitating his left-wing peers — and has since the band started in 1974.

 

"Oh yeah, they really get upset," Johnny says. "I remember in 1979 doing an interview for Creem magazine with [famed rock and roll scribe, now deceased] Lester Bangs and telling him that Ronald Reagan will be the next president. He was really mad that I liked Reagan, who was the greatest president of my lifetime.  turned it around on him and asked to see his commie card. In fact, ever after that, I would ask him for his card. I think he had one, really."

 

The other day, when Stray Cats bassist Slim Jim Phantom was complaining about his tax bill, Johnny reminded him that the charges would be higher if President Bush hadn't gotten his tax cuts passed. "I told him he needs to vote Republican to keep his taxes lower ... and donate to President Bush's campaign," he says.

 

"I try to make a dent in people when I can," he says. "I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is."

 

He has found few allies in show business, but one stands out as a fellow renegade and conservative: Mr. Gallo, an actor, director and musician. "What's radical about saying you are for the poor?" Mr. Gallo, 41, demands. "Johnny Ramone has never been like that. He is incredibly authentic as both a musician and a person. I respect him not because we agree on a lot of things but because he is an individual." They bonded over [former New York Yankees star pitcher] Ron Guidry, cinema and politics.

 

Not that Mr. Ramone's friends must pass an ideological litmus test. He still holds ideological hopes for the relentlessly liberal Mr. Vedder. When the Pearl Jam singer impaled a mask of Mr. Bush and slammed it to the stage at a Denver concert on the heels of the Iraq invasion last April, Johnny Ramone let him know that he thought it was a stupid move.

 

"I got serious with him and told him that he was alienating people," Johnny says. "And I got him to see the point." When Johnny Ramone tells you something is uncool, well, it is.

 

Harnessing chaos, humor and danger, the Ramones created the template of the rock 'n' roll revolution that was punk rock.

 

Even then, though, Johnny's conservative side showed. When the band wanted to record "Chinese Rocks," a song co-written by bassist Dee Dee Ramone, Johnny disapproved of the reference to a strain of dope that was prevalent at the time.

 

Ditto when the other guys in the band came up with "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg," a tune disparaging Johnny's beloved Mr. Reagan. (Sample lyric: "You're a politician / Don't become one of Hitler's children.") Both times, he lost. After all, a band is a democracy.

 

"But I really enjoyed upsetting them," Johnny says of his former and mates. "They called me the Rush Limbaugh of rock 'n' roll one time in a Village Voice interview. But, hey, they were just old hippies." Two are dead now: Singer Joey succumbed to cancer in 2001 and Dee Dee to a heroin overdose in 2002. Longtime (but not original) Ramones drummer Marky still plays around in the underground scene.

 

Like so many other right-wingers. who are fed up with the media establishment, Johnny tunes in to the radio every day for some roiling rhetoric and to the Web for some news that doesn't seem to make the local newspaper.

 

"Hey," he says, perusing Newsmax.com as he speaks on the phone, "what's going on with these illegal aliens now?"

[Jobber of the Week 0]

his news now, he hits the Drudge Report and Newsmax.com, Fox News' "Hannity and Colmes," and "The O'Reilly Factor." He listens daily to Rush Limbaugh and Michael Medved.

 

Wow. Poor guy really is ignorant. Drudge usually at least links to real articles on other sites, but Newsmax is almost honest about being propaganda.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

As opposed to the rest of the Entertainment industry?

 

He may be crazy, but he's all mine...

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3. Dre Performs For The Republician Party

Many fans are in disbelief as Dre of Outkast, has plans to perform at the GOP convention in New York City. On Sunday, August 29th, Andre will be shaking it like a poloroid picture for the Republican party.

 

http://www.sohh.com/thewire/read.php?conte...ghlight=Outkast

[Guest GreatOne]

I thought Lynyrd Skynyrd died in a plane crash about 30 years ago...

 

Other performers in President Bush's corner include musical performers Lynyrd Skynyrd

 

The current Skynyrd is Johnny Van Zant, Gary Rossington, Rick Medlocke, and a shitload of other players.

 

Ronnie Van Zant and Steve and Cassie Gaines were the ones killed in the crash

[Guest Anglesault]

Was there a real need to give us Alice Cooper's real name? That's just wrong.

[Guest Crazy Dan]

Another Republican actor is Ron Silver. I see him on talk shows supporting Bush and the War.

 

Another is Don King, who is actively campaigning for Bush this election.

 

But here is the greatest intellectual entertainer known to man. That's right, its our favorite MTV newleywed, Jessica Simpson. I can't wait to turn into her interviews, man talk about being thrilled. I heard on the Beltway Boys last night that she will be at the Convention trying to woo younger voters to the Republicans. And if they keep her mouth shut, she should help, and at least she has big boobs to look at.