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Ron Silver Called “Ron, Ron, The Neocon” by West Wing Castmates
Ron Silver has written a great piece for Pajamas Media in which he describes what it’s like being a Bush supporter in Hollywood. The actor says on the set of The West Wing, his castmates would chant “Ron, Ron, the neocon.”
It’s very refreshing to see someone in Hollywood not drinking the Kool-Aid. He’s taken quite a bit of heat ever sense speaking at the 2004 Republican Convention.
Since speaking in support of George Bush at the 2004 Republican convention I’ve become increasingly disadmired by members of my profession as well as many others. As of this writing my family tells me they still love me. I believe them, but stay tuned, as another presidential cycle is upon us.
I find myself increasingly amused as folks extrapolate my support for the Bush Doctrine and our battles in Iraq and Afghanistan to how I feel about everything. When backed into a corner I often describe my politics, quite snarkily I admit, as a little bit to the right of the left of center.
As far as I can tell, my politics, with regard to American foreign policy and projection of American power haven’t changed very much from what they’ve always been—what I would call revolutionary liberalism. I have always resisted reactionaries from the left or right, Democrat or Republican. At the moment, the reactionary forces on the left, the Democratic netroots and their supporters—Mickey Colitis from the Daily Cuss, MoveOn.org and the Moores and Sheehans—are more fearful to me than the traditional reactionary forces of the extreme right. And the Democratic Party seems to be listening to them.
Senator Joe Lieberman, the Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate only eight years ago, gave an extraordinary speech on national security last week that the mainstream media did not cover. It’s a shame. And it’s a shame the Democratic Party shunned Lieberman and tried to defeat him in a primary. They made it clear that there is no place for him in the party he’s dedicated his life to. I’m a Joe Lieberman Democrat.
I don’t think it would be possible for me to agree any stronger in everything that Silver says in the above quote. Joe Lieberman is a great American who represents the ideals that the Democratic party once stood for.
The new Democratic party is made up of pessimistic, whiny, anti-war, wimps that belong in a hippie commune instead of the halls of Congress.
-Chris Jones
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It’s amazing that you cry about the Democrats opposing the war … the one issue on which they are right … or at least what they say is right. What they do makes it apparent that they have fallen for the neocon bs.
Try to imagine the Iranian invasion of the United States, you idiot! Where are they going to get weapons? Where are they going to get ships? How is it that a two-bit third world shit hole is now “the most formidable threat America has ever faced”? Without even having any sort of industrial plant?
Their tiny little president may WANT to be Hitler. If he does, he’s going to have to get elected in Germany, because the pissant country he’s got now is no threat to anyone.