Some of them may surprise you. I don’t even recognize about a quarter of them.
Bear in mind, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re right wingers.
They’re missing a few, although maybe they’re just conservatives not registered Republican. I’m assuming they mean celebs famous for something other than political involvement.
Dennis Miller
The blond from SNL circa late 1980s
The actress who played Everybody Loves Raymond’s wife
The brunette in Designing Girls
The guy who played Captain Stubing in Loveboat
The guy who played Gopher in Loveboat
The guy who played Cliff Kleibin (sp?) on Cheers (two renowned conservatives on Norman Lear’s last series – irony)
Ted Nugent
David Lynch (I think)
The Jewish guy in all the liberal movies who converted on 911
Steve Largent
Rober Staubach
And how could they leave out Arnold? Maybe they left out people who’ve been elected to office, which would account for the omissions of Gopher and Largent.
By the way Bruce Willis has been campaigning for Republicans much longer than 2000. He and Schwarzenegger toured for Bush in 1992.
There are only a few surprises for me on the list. James Earl Jones because he associates with radical directors like John Sayles and has associated his name with a number of liberal causes, including People for the American Way. I guess Meat Loaf is the only other real surprise.
Ramone once said that Punk is inherently right wing, and to tell you the truth, I don’t necessarily disagree with him.
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November 27, 2010 at 11:44 am
Erasmus
The list had 40 names. Some, like Drew Carey, are libertarians who are only nominal Republicans. Isn’t Barry Bonds a Republican also? Wasn’t Dennis Hopper a Republican toward the end of his life?
November 27, 2010 at 12:03 pm
Michelle
Oh, no, not Meatloaf! Maybe Fran N Furter was right to chop him up.
November 27, 2010 at 12:12 pm
pathetic actually
When I was growing up, I learned at some point that my Dad was a liberal Democrat, and although my Mom acted and talked like one, she was a registered Republican. At some point, I asked her why she registered that way because it seemed odd to me. I was surprised by her response–she told me she did that so they’d collect our trash. The local government was totally dominated by Republicans, and apparently the appearance of being a Republican in that community was important. I don’t think she made that up simply to appease my youthful curiosity–the subject came up as she and I were actually helping out local Democratic candidates.
November 27, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Anonymous
The Jewish guy in all the liberal movies who converted on 911
Oh him! You must mean the guy who was wearing the white shirt in that movie about the thing.
November 27, 2010 at 12:59 pm
Anonymous
They can have Shannan Doherty! Has she been in jail for assault and battery lately?
November 27, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Joel Mielke
The right seems to be incapable of producing a good actor or a funny comedian.
November 27, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Eric Kirk
Miller used to be funny, when Al Franken was writing his lines.
November 27, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Chris Crawford
Don’t forget Ben Stein, Robert Duvall, Raquel Welch and Jon Voight.
And I respectfully disagree, Eric … Dennis Miller is funnier than hell.
November 27, 2010 at 1:43 pm
Eric Kirk
All of them are on the list Chris, except Raquel.
And maybe I’m just missing his good lines, but I see him on Fox News trying to be funny, and even Hannity and O’Reilly seem to be forcing laughs. He doesn’t seem to have the joy he used to have. He actually seemed upset and offended over the fact that the Giants beat the Rangers, and I think it’s really hard to be funny when you take life that seriously.
November 27, 2010 at 2:02 pm
Michelle
BTW, “Gopher” is Fred Gandy.
November 27, 2010 at 5:58 pm
Anonymous
I thought Mel Gibson was Australian.
November 27, 2010 at 6:35 pm
Eric Kirk
No, he just plays one in the movies. Probably confusing as he was Australian in the Mad Max movies and coincidentally was able to put his accent training to use in The Year of Living Dangerously – which is my favorite Gibson movie of all time.
November 27, 2010 at 10:20 pm
Anonymous
Isn’t Angelina Jolie a Republican?
November 27, 2010 at 10:54 pm
Eric Kirk
She is John Voight’s daughter, but I don’t know anything about her politics.
November 28, 2010 at 4:57 pm
Anonymous
Conservatives have claimed Denzel Washington as one of their own, but that’s based on false reporting of an interview with Katie Couric.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/denzel.asp
November 28, 2010 at 7:11 pm
jendocino
The Rock? For reals? Oh, man. My worldview’s a mess now…
November 28, 2010 at 7:41 pm
Eric Kirk
Well, I found the following list of conservative celebs, and they differentiate between actual Republicans and other categories such as those who “committed conservative acts.” Denzel Washington is listed, but no explanation is given for his “act.” Maybe it’s based on the legend, and they removed the explanation thanks to Snopes but couldn’t bring themselves to take him off the list.
http://www.mypalal.com/aboutalan/ConservativeCelebrities.cfm
I love that the most common “conservative act” was to appear in An American Carol, which was a very trite slam of Michael Moore from the portion I’ve seen (about the first half hour). But by this standard, the following otherwise conservative actors have committed “liberal acts” by appearing in liberal-themed movies.
Charlton Heston – Planet of the Apes, Solyent Green, The Omega Man, and a self-parody on SNL
Jon Voight – Midnight Cowboy and Coming Home
Victoria Jackson – SNL (I listed her as the blond whose name I couldn’t remember)
Lara Flynn Boyle – The Road to Wellville
James Woods – Salvador, Nixon, The Way We Were, Contact, Citizen Cohn, and True Believer (playing a character based on Tony Serra)
Craig Nelson – Silkwood, The Killing Fields, And Justice for All
Danny Aiello – Do the Right Thing, Radio Days, Purple Rose of Cairo, and Jacob’s Ladder
Rip Torn – The Insider, Canadian Bacon, The Man Who Fell to Earth
Robert Duvall – MASH, Apocalypse Now, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Conversation, Belizaire the Cajun, The Handmaid’s Tale, Phenomenon, A Civil Action, and Thank You for Smoking
Sarah Michelle Geller – Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Southland Tales
Emily Proctor – West Wing
Dennis Quaid – Traffic, The Day after Tomorrow, Enemy Mine
November 28, 2010 at 7:42 pm
Eric Kirk
Jendocino – on the other hand, he did commit a “liberal act” by playing in a liberal movie – Southland Tales. A weird post-modern movie to boot, way outside the interests of his fan base. He played well out of usual character too.
November 28, 2010 at 7:50 pm
Eric Kirk
Oh, and Ron Silver is the Jewish guy who moved right on foreign policy issues after 911 was in West Wing and other movies like Silkwood.
November 28, 2010 at 8:08 pm
mresquan
I believe that Shirley Temple became a influential Republican in her adult life and was appointed to some sort of ambassador position.Gary Cooper was a devout Republican who campaigned against FDR during a few of his runs.Clint Eastwood switched from Republican to Libertarian sometime in the early 1990′s and has played in a few liberal oriented films during his time,I won’t take the time now to go into them.It seems like nowadays,he’s become more of a left leaning libertarian and I have had a few people who had the opportunity to deal with him when he was the mayor of Carmel tell me that is how he was at that point in his life,although I’m sure that could be contradicted.
Sly Stallone has always been a staunch Republican,and I dare say that “Rocky” could have been seen as a liberal.I guess I’ll have to go back and watch the films again to further back up or dismiss that perspective.
November 28, 2010 at 8:18 pm
Anonymous
Eastwood directed Bird and his movies have liberal themes.
Ron Silver voted for Bush in 2004 but voted for Obama in 2008 calling the selection of Sarah Palin a “deal breaker.” He still considers himself a liberal except on national security issues and Israel.
November 28, 2010 at 8:25 pm
mresquan
Hmmm…forgot to write that I don’t actually know if Eastwood ever switched party affiliations despite his dislike of Bush I’s administration and the direction the Republican Party was headed at the time.It seems that he finds a way to stray all over the map with his politics as he was a supporter of Gray Davis,then became a bit of a thorn in Micheal Moore’s side,and then made some sort of what some viewed as a strange campaign donation to Randy Eastwood in the state of Washington,and more recently has been a critic of Obama’s,but not so much in the same light as the neocon Republicans have.
November 28, 2010 at 8:38 pm
Anonymous
Leslie Nielsen made it on the second list for being in American Carrol.
He died today.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/28/actor-leslie-nielsen-dies-of-complications-from-pneumonia/
November 29, 2010 at 12:31 pm
Erasmus
Ron Silver died over a year ago.