How many of these celebs did you know were Republicans?

[Locut0s]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/40-celebrities-who-are-republicans

Most I knew or didn't care one way or the other. But one or two surprised me.

[Aristus]

1. All of them.

I'm pretty well attuned to the political leanings of most public figures.

I'm glad that Clint Eastwood hasn't let the thudding cloddishness of Republicanism prevent him from making some movies of rare beauty and sensitivity.

For a few of them, like Shannen Doherty, Scott Baio, and Steven Baldwin, conservatism is evidently a second career, after their acting jobs dried up...

[bluesbassman]

2. I guess doing the voice for Darth Vader pushed James Earl Jones to the Dark Side...

Breaks my heart though, I did not know he was a R.

[progressoid]

19. I'm not sure about him.

He seems to hold his cards close to his chest. But I heard an interview with him on Tavis Smiley where he called the tea party racists. So, that's a good thing.

[orleans]

25. yeah, i didn't know he was either.

i also didn't know meatloaf was.

[trueblue2007]

3. some of those people surprise me. ADAM SANDLER???? WHAT???

[Aristus]

4. I know, right?

At the end of The Chanukah Song, Part II, Adam wishes "Peace and love to everybody!"

I thought: "Peace and love, Adam? What the hell kind of Republican are you?"

[Locut0s]

7. I suspect he's the type who finishes the song with "peace and love..."...

Then off stage asks, now where my fucking money, and no I ain't paying no tax on it.

[FredisDead]

5. Not all Republicans

are Conservative assholes, but many are.

[Locut0s]

6. I have no doubt about that. My issue would be...

That when the party that is supposed to represent your interests swings SO far to one direction it kind of speaks poorly of yourself if you keep voting for them if your own point of view is now so vastly different.

For example I know there are fiscal conservatives who fully 100% support gay marriage, are pro choice, pro drug legalization and more. If I were this type of conservative though I'd find it difficult to vote for the current Republican Party. And doing so really only furthers that agenda. In some ways even more so if you are a celebrity.

[monmouth3]

8. Meat Loaf??? How disappointing...n/t

[femmocrat]

10. How could you ever forget Meat Loaf's duet with Mitt?!

http://www.tmz.com/videos/0_abvjlr8y/

[magical thyme]

12. Oh. My. Dawg.

I'd read about it, but never took a second to listen before now. Gaaaah. Excuse me while I go try to lure my ears back out from wherever they managed to hide so I can nurse them back to health. Gaaaaaah. were they thinking? Cripes, I almost feel sorry for mittens...

[monmouth3]

14. Thank Gawd I missed that..Well I guess "Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad.".....LOL..

[sharp_stick]

39. He looked like he was on Angel Dust

or meth. I mean it, that guy was out of his gourd on one chemical or another.

[B Calm]

9. There were some that surprised me. A lot of them

I already knew that they voted for republicans. Some of these actors I like, but most of them are not that good.

[rug]

11. Johnny Ramone? I need to be sedated.

[progressoid]

17. Yup...

Johnny was known within the punk rock community as one of its notable conservatives, and was a staunch supporter of the Republican Party. Johnny made his political affiliation known to the world in 2002, when the Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. After thanking all who made the honor possible—clad in his trademark T-shirt, ripped blue jeans and leather jacket—he said "God bless President Bush, and God bless America".[10] He said in an interview, when questioned on his conservatism, "I think Ronald Reagan was the best President of my lifetime." This was evident in 1985 when the band released the UK single "Bonzo Goes To Bitburg"; Johnny pressed for a name change, finding the title insulting to Reagan, and the song was retitled on American releases as "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)" after a line from the song's chorus. In this same interview he claimed that "Punk is right wing".[11]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Ramone

[rug]

18. Amazing information.

I guess you just can't judge a book by its leather jacket.

[Tom Ripley]

21. I blame it on that curb-stomping that Johnny received in the early 80s

brain damage

[frogmarch]

13. Robert Duvall was quoted

as saying that the party of Abraham Lincoln was good enough for him.

[mucifer]

34. So he's not the brightest bulb.

[rurallib]

15. Bo Derek is still a celebrity?

[progressoid]

16. I thought Drew Carey was a Liberatian?

Not that it makes any difference.

[nirvana555]

20. Thank God no one was on there that I didn't already know about...

It freaks me out when I hear a rumor that someone I really like is a repub...

[Tom Ripley]

22. I prefer dead celebrity republicans (William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Mitchum)

they are the best kind

[davidpdx]

23. There was a similar thread recently

Most I knew were Republicans. Sarah Michelle Gellar was surprise. I bet she gets shit from Robin Williams who she works with.

The one that disappoint me is Adam Sandler as I like him a lot.

[TBF]

33. Those are 2 that dissappointed me as well -

especially Adam Sandler. Live and learn.

[Aristus]

35. I'm really enjoying "The Crazy Ones".

I hope SMG is getting schooled well by Robin Williams. You never know; she might come around...

[davidpdx]

40. Me too

I believe in one of the outtakes in a show earlier this year he was doing some impressions of republicans (Reagan and Arnold, fitting since he lives in California).

I hope the show gets renewed for another season.

[RebelOne]

24. None of them surprise me,

but James Earl Jones and The Rock disappoint me. I always thought they were human.

[yuiyoshida]

26. Some of them I don't know but

The ones I do know, I knew were Republicans. Why is an another question.

[BobUp]

27. I sold

all of my Squint and Gisbon videos on eBay.com after Gisbon made some slurs, and Squint's after his empty seat rambling, too bad, I once liked these actors, but I have a 0 tolerance for bullshit.

http://www.marwenmedia.com/articles_images/MelGibson.html

snippet
A top advisor to former governor and erstwhile presidential candidate Mitt Romney (R-MA) was reportedly so horrified at 2012 Republican National Convention keynote speaker Clint Eastwood’s bizarre “empty chair” speech that he threw up backstage when it was over. The speech was a last-minute gamble, and the aging actor’s rambling address to an invisible President Barack Obama went poorly, leaving many viewers and commentators baffled.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/02/romney-advisor-vomited-in-horror-after-clint-eastwoods-empty-chair-speech-says-book/

[Locut0s]

28. Oh man lol...

To have been there to whiteness that vomit

[BobUp]

29. But

I didn't feel the need to vomit, I felt like telling the old fart (if I were there) to go change his depends.

[Locut0s]

30. I had the same reaction...

It really did come across as senile rambling to me.

[BobUp]

31. I especially disliked

the photos of people lynching chairs after his meaningless drivel.
That pissed me off even more. For him and teabaggers that must have been a "mission accomplished" because it sure got people riled up. I was mad as hell.

[Locut0s]

32. Lynching chairs....

Didn't know this happened, not surprised, but I am disgusted.

[BobUp]

36. Oh yes,

some people couldn't control themselves or their emotions after President Obama was elected in '08, and some were downright nasty after he was reelected, to me, I was disheartened and it made me sick to think people were like that.

I was even fearful for the President's life after seeing news stories of people carrying firearms to town hall events. I was afraid some nut would try to do something to the President or his family. And seeing all the signs with Obama being painted as a Nazi, all over the internet. I had an open mind when Obama was elected, and had thought America had come full circle in the matter of acceptance and race relations, but some people in America took me back to remembering the way things were in the 1960's. America still has a long way to go.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/25/1164628/--President-Barack-Obama-Is-the-Most-Threatened-President-In-History

[Sheldon Cooper]

37. The only surprise to me is the number of AA folks who are Republicans.

It's the proverbial 'chickens voting for Col. Sanders' phenomenon.

[Iggo]

38. I didn't even know Rachel Hunter was an American.

Other than that, I guess Heather Locklear was mildly surprising. But really, I should never be surprised to find out a rich person is Republican.

[geardaddy]

41. Don't forget Robert Downey, Jr.

is republican now. Fitting if you ask me. It's all about him.

[LissaMac]

42. Oh sadness....