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Rambo Adds Muscle to McCain CampaignPosted on Jan 24, 2008
What is it with the, shall we say, seasoned action stars endorsing Republican presidential candidates? First we had Huck ’n’ Chuck, and now Sylvester Stallone has come out in support of Republican front-runner John McCain.
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By Bill Blackolive, January 31 at 8:35 am # Silvestor, stop it, mixing your craft with real world. Go to patriotsquestion9/11 and understand we do not have time for this.
By xyzaffair, January 31 at 8:29 am # Sly Endorses McCainGee, now my mind’s made up; I’m voting for McCain. How can I argue with such an insightful intellectual as Rambo?
By Ann, January 29 at 12:52 pm # HazardousCaution, steroid use can be hazardous to your brain… Just what we need...another delusional war mongering jerk supporting a delusional war mongering jerk… Hey Sly...you gonna send your kids and grandkids to Iraq to fight?
By SouthernYankee, January 27 at 3:01 pm # I am a 60 yr old woman and even I think we need fresh blood in the white house. Someone who can really try to unite this country for a change. Hillary, Bill, McCain are all over the hill now. Its time for a new man who really cares to unite this country and that is Obama. He really moves people and gives us hope. Yes he is young but I am sure he will get the right people around him to make the right decisions. He will at least listen to everyone. That includes republicans and democrats. We must break this extreme from both left and right or our country is in deep trouble.
By FrostedFlakes, January 26 at 1:23 pm # Stallone backing McCain..hmm.... One old man still bitter about his Vietnam experience endorsed by another old man who gained fame portraying a man embittered by his Vietnam experience. 0+0 still equals zero.
By SuaSponte, January 25 at 5:39 am # Stallone for McCainThis must have crushed the posturing Rambo Giuliani, who possibly was planning to strut about wearing a headband and disclosing his plans to make the World behave.
By SuaSponte, January 25 at 5:32 am # Re: Draft Dodger VoteWell, it’s interesting to know that your idols, the Chief Draft Dodger Cheney, Wolfowitz, Gingrich, Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Kristol, Gibson, Boehner, and plenty of other ultra-right vermin beating the drums and waving the flags while sending others to do the fighting will, according to your vacuous mental state, vote for Hillary.
By deang, January 25 at 12:09 am # Isn’t Stallone the one who lately has been too terrified to travel internationally because of “terrorists”? But I’m not surprised that yet another action movie figure is publicly supporting a right-winger. In the 80s, Stallone, Schwarzenegger, and several others in their stable publicly supported Reagan and Bush, and Schwarzenegger has at times expressed admiration for those paragons of right-wing virtue, Nixon and Hitler, the former back when Nixon was still publicly reviled. In any case, action films tend to appeal most to people with an excess of testosterone, who love the martial imagery of right-wing politics. I recently noted to a friend that there seem to be more bodybuilders among right-wing parties like Republicans and Libertarians than in other groups. Has something to do with their love of exaggerated male gender stereotypes, I guess. Add Your Comment |
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