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Rambo Adds Muscle to McCain Campaign

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Posted on Jan 24, 2008
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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.


AP via Breitbart.com:

Stallone said of McCain, a Vietnam war veteran who spent more than five years as a prisoner of war, that “there’s something about matching the character with the script.”

“And right now, the script that’s being written and reality is pretty brutal and pretty hard-edged like a rough action film, and you need somebody who’s been in that to deal with” it.

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By Thomas Billis, February 1 at 2:59 pm #
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Rocky and Punch Drunkie

I hear that Stallone is one more Rocky film.In it Rocky fights a grueling 12 rounder with a clerk at Social Security trying to get his benefits.Yo Adrian I got the mental benefits.

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By Bill Blackolive, January 31 at 8:35 am #
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Silvestor, stop it, mixing your craft with real world.  Go to patriotsquestion9/11 and understand we do not have time for this.

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By xyzaffair, January 31 at 8:29 am #
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Sly Endorses McCain

Gee, now my mind’s made up; I’m voting for McCain.  How can I argue with such an insightful intellectual as Rambo?

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By Blackspeare, January 30 at 12:28 pm #
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P.T.----interesting comparison.  Draft dodgers suffer from one human emotion----that of fear!  Draft resisters openly oppose a war effort and their fear is a bit less since their views are made public.  But there is another kind of military avoidance that is barely touched upon----that of “safely” serving and meeting military obligation.  That is precisely what Bush did through his connections.  How much time he actually spend on duty is open to argument, but that is immaterial----he’s on record as having served.  Probably if he had dodge the draft as had Cheney, John Kerry would have been president!  I, too, had political connections and was told that building deferment upon deferment may not look good on a resume (depending on your career path) and that safely serving was a better route.  And so it was, though drafted, I never left stateside----was it luck of the draw or intervention----I never heard from the “connection” and some things are better left unvisited!  The question is how many others in high places received such favors during war periods???

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By Frank Cajon, January 29 at 7:16 pm #
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Well, I was dead set against McCain because he will get us into several more wars, is an idiot on economics, and represents only a slight improvement over the Bush/Cheney Reich. But, now that I see that the star of ‘Cobra’ ("You’re the disease, I’m the cure") has endorsed him, I was way off. This guy must really be the answer, or at least a burned-out, roid-ravaged has-been actor thinks so. I thought McCain was pushing to clean steroids out of major league baseball. How about cleaning them out of Sly Stallone?

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By Macu Naima, January 29 at 2:33 pm #
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Rambo was a Chickenhawk

I find this so amusing as Rambo/Stallone spent his draft-eligible years - of the Vietnam War-teaching physical education in a private girls school in Switzerland.

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By Ann, January 29 at 12:52 pm #
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Hazardous

Caution, 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?

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By SteveL, January 27 at 9:16 pm #
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Clarification

Just how many years did John(I don’t know much about economics)McCain want to have troops in Iraq?  Was it a thousand or a million?

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By SouthernYankee, January 27 at 3:01 pm #
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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.

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By DennisD, January 26 at 4:14 pm #
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Typecast

Is McCain on steroids too?

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By FrostedFlakes, January 26 at 1:23 pm #
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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.

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By troublesum, January 26 at 10:54 am #
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Stallone is too old for the parts he plays and McCain is too old to be president.  They both have fantasies about America’s role in the world.

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By homovivens, January 25 at 4:27 pm #
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Another Reason Why Steroids Are Bad

Stallone’s muscled ape of McCain is another reason not to do steroids. Tell your children.

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By SuaSponte, January 25 at 5:39 am #
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Stallone for McCain

This 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.

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By Frank, January 25 at 5:09 am #
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P.T., I think Hillary has the draft dodger vote wrapped up, since she is married to one, and the chairman of her political party is one.

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By P. T., January 25 at 11:38 am #
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Re:

John McCain also has picked up the Draft Dodger Joe Lieberman endorsement.

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By cyrena, January 26 at 12:46 am #
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Re: Re:

Humm..I’d be willing to bet that Hillary probably ‘endorses’ him too. As DennisD explained so well on a different thread. These folks (McCain, Hillary, Leiberman, etc, etc) are the difference between pepsi and coke, and we should dump them all in the Harbor, and get on with the revolution.

P.T., thanks for articulating the difference between draft dodgers and draft resisters.

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By P. T., January 25 at 8:58 am #
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Re:

That depends on their track records.  There is, of course, a big difference between draft dodgers and draft resisters.  The former is to be condemned and the latter lauded.  Draft dodgers avoid and they even support, not oppose, imperialist wars.  Draft resisters work against imperialist wars.  The struggle continues!

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By SuaSponte, January 25 at 5:32 am #
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Re: Draft Dodger Vote

Well, 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.

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By deang, January 25 at 12:09 am #
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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.

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By G.Anderson, January 24 at 10:54 pm #
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Let's put them in the ring and see

wouldn’t that just be perfect…

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By Louise, January 24 at 10:29 pm #
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Desperate in L A

Who’s ever made the mistake of believing the, shall we say, aging action stars are smart?

However, they do have an uncanny ability to smell camera lights!

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By P. T., January 24 at 8:05 pm #
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McCain Chasing Draft Dodger Vote?

Draft dodger Stallone has jumped on the McCain bandwagon.

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