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Secret Confessions of a Hollywood Movie Star

that is a definite read.

And he was way ahead of the curve writing this article in 2005:

“Help! I’m a Hollywood Republican”

http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=627B40F1-F7F6-4C15-B190-045C40A1B21F

In 1980 (and again in 1984), Ronald Reagan won in significant part because traditionally Democratic voters abandoned their party to vote for him. Those same “Reagan Democrats” have shown up frequently in the news today. Indeed, McCain is specifically…

Sounds rather amoebic to me. You can consume poison, but if it stays within your system, it will still kill you. What does it profit a man if he achieves unity but suffers the loss of his soul??

So now I drive around my university town–to the organic market, the Whole Foods, and the recycling center–with my pro-life bumper stickers and my organic food cloth bags, and just to further just stump people, I let them know I’m a vegetarian (yet, at the same time fervently praying that my profs won’t find out about my extra-curricular activism before my qualifying exams, and cringing when my colleagues would ask for rides). The pro-life stuff might be fobbed off on my being a Catholic (obviously brainwashed, since “thinking people” wouldn’t actually believe stuff like absolute truth), but do I dare put a McCain sticker on my car or a sign in my window? I’ll keep my car un-keyed, thank you.

I judged others too. I was appalled by smart people I knew who held Conservative views. I couldn’t hear them. It was a process of years, and it started with me learning and understandning the issues. Now I can explain why I think the way do. rarely is there a Liberal who wants to hear it.

I know many people who are unaware that the positions they support are conservative. I have been tempted to reply to an acquaintance who sent me an article, “Are you aware that Krauthammer (article’s author) is a leading conservative thinker and that the reason that you had to send his article is because there is no one in the party which you religiously support who is willing to say the same thing?” But, what’s the point? She despises Bush, still has a Kerry bumpersticker on her car ( and what does that mean? I believe it is a sign of Bush protest but also a sign of lack of support for Nobama).

It is sad, Helen, that I would not be willing to dissent in a staff meeting where my tolerant co-workers would categorize me and verbally attack me. Why bother? In a small gathering I might, depending upon who was there, but Helen, if people do not feel safe expressing their views to their progressive colleagues and friends, something is seriously wrong. I am tired of Conservatives being portrayed as the equivalent of the KKK. The tolerant left will tolerate no dissension. Irony.