Conservative Celebs: 50 Stars You Didn’t Realize Had Republican Leanings

[solarstorm]

Look what I've found:

http://www.vh1.com/celebrity/2014-07-03/50-politically-conservative-celebrities/

Do any of those Republican celebrities surprise you? Do any even disappoint you? And does your extended knowledge about them change your mind (positively or negatively) about your idols?
Update:

I found another list of Republican celebrities - without a slide chart (however from 2010):

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/40-celebrities-who-are-republicans

Guess who I found there:

Meat Loaf and Johnny Ramone

[solarstorm]

The biggest surprise for me is 50 Cent (which I'd already known before).
It just doesn't make any sense why he's a Republican; especially as he's even pro-SSM. Nevertheless, no one can tell me that he didn't vote for Obama (at least) in 2008.
The same goes for LL Cool J (who I'd already known is a Republican).

Alice Cooper, Big Boi, Sam Hagar and Jon Cryer plainly disappoint me; and Nick Lachey, The Rock and Jenna Jameson and Freddie Prinze Jr. are legit stunners.

Btw, I don't know three out of four of those "celebs".

[politicus]

The biggest surprise for me is 50 Cent (which I'd already known before).
It just doesn't make any sense why he's a Republican; especially as he's even pro-SSM. Nevertheless, no one can tell me that he didn't vote for Obama (at least) in 2008.
The same goes for LL Cool J (who I'd already known is a Republican).

Alice Cooper, Big Boi, Sam Hagar and Jon Cryer plainly disappoint me; and Nick Lachey, The Rock and Jenna Jameson and Freddie Prinze Jr. are legit stunners.

Btw, I don't know three out of four of those "celebs".

At least Jameson's argument: "As a rich person I prefer a Republican in office" is honest.

They include a couple of Libertarians and some (like Hillary Duff) are categorized on a very thin basis.

Also, like you said, lots of unfamous "celebs".

[politicus]

Most of them are white, rich, and good-looking. Not really surprising once you think about it based on demographics alone.

So good-looking people are more likey to vote Republican? Any stats to back that up?

[politicus]

Most of them are white, rich, and good-looking. Not really surprising once you think about it based on demographics alone.

So good-looking people are more likey to vote Republican? Any stats to back that up?

I can try to rationalize it, if you'd like:

The current definition of "attractive" that is propogated by the media and entertainment industry (heavily based in Europe and North America) generally considers light-skinned, light-haired, light-eyed, tall people to be attractive (or some combination of those traits). Who predominantly has those traits? White people. White Americans tend to vote Republican based on exit polls going back to 1968.


Transitive property of demographics, my friend

Nah.. now you are making it too easy for yourself. You said white, rich and good-looking.  Equalizing white and good-looking makes it a truism.

[Lief 🗽]

A lot of this list is dumb. Like Big Boi is not conservative at all; he's basically a true leftist. And David Lynch supported Obama in 2012.

If the visionary mind behind DUNE or Daddy Fat Saxxx desire legal representation, I would happily take up a pro bono libel suit on their behalves against VH1 once I have passed the bar later this year.

[solarstorm]

Most of them are white, rich, and good-looking. Not really surprising once you think about it based on demographics alone.

So good-looking people are more likey to vote Republican? Any stats to back that up?

If Clarko associates "good-looking" people with people who pour their millions into brand-name fashion, cosmetics and plastic surgery, I agree with him.

At least Jameson's argument: "As a rich person I prefer a Republican in office" is honest.

She's brutally honest, yes, but it is doubtful whether she'd ever have become rich if the tea baggers had put their manifesto into action.

[Hatman 🍁]

Damn, Alex Trebek? I guess all the conservatives get the heck out of Sudbury

[solarstorm]

Damn, Alex Trebek? I guess all the conservatives get the heck out of Sudbury

What? I didn't know that he was born in Canada...

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

A lot of those are well known, others are huge stretches, the biggest being Hilary Duff, was she even old enough to vote in 2005? Not to mention that was 10 years ago so her politics could've changed completely as often happens.

Also Occupy Wall Street had far better looking women in attendance than at Tea Party rallies:

[Hatman 🍁]

Damn, Alex Trebek? I guess all the conservatives get the heck out of Sudbury

What? I didn't know that he was born in Canada...

Yep. There are a lot of Canadian celebrities. In fact, I bet there are more Canadian celebrities than Republican celebrities. There's really not a lot of A listers on this list.

[The Mikado]

Is donating $1,000 to a Republican Senator you like enough to make you a conservative? I don't think they showed any real evidence that Alex Trebek is on the right.

[Beet]

Ugh, I hate it when sites make you click 50 times for the information advertised just so they can tell their advertisers they got more unique hits.

[solarstorm]

Is donating $1,000 to a Republican Senator you like enough to make you a conservative? I don't think they showed any real evidence that Alex Trebek is on the right.

The title actually bears upon Republican Leanings, so it's actually correct to list Trebek.
But agree with you on your other post:

Ugh, I hate it when sites make you click 50 times for the information advertised just so they can tell their advertisers they got more unique hits.

The Viacom Tag Container is plainly horrible and it scares potential users away.

[Libertarian Socialist Dem]

I was disappointed when I found out that Maureen Tucker from the Velvet Underground was a teabagger =(

[justfollowingtheelections]

I was disappointed when I found out that Maureen Tucker from the Velvet Underground was a teabagger =(

That is indeed disappointing.

I think there are are a lot more conservative celebrities than we think.  They just don't want to talk about their political views.  But I also think that a lot of celebrities that the media usually claim are Republicans, are not (or maybe they were once but not anymore).  Comedian Mindy Kaling for example read somewhere that she's supposedly a Republican and she was really surprised.

[Goldwater]

Does performing at a Presidential inauguration necessarily mean you have the same political views as that President? I doubt it.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

David Lynch is a literal Reagan Democrat. Yet another demonstration that the way that term is conventionally used is specious.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

A lot of those are well known, others are huge stretches, the biggest being Hilary Duff, was she even old enough to vote in 2005? Not to mention that was 10 years ago so her politics could've changed completely as often happens.

Also Occupy Wall Street had far better looking women in attendance than at Tea Party rallies:

Yeah, but they still couldn't organise a **** in a whorehouse.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

First, just because someone is registered as a Republican or attends GOP fundraisers doesn't mean that their personal beliefs lean that way.  And second, people talk about "liberal Hollywood" so much that we just assume that celebrity culture is dominated by leftists.  I think it's actually a fairly even split, but people think liberals dominate because they're more vocal.

[King]

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[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

One of my favourite parts of celeb-politics... the right screeches about "no-nothing liberal hollywood types"... but the moment they get one of their own. They actually elect them to office

[IceSpear]

One of my favourite parts of celeb-politics... the right screeches about "no-nothing liberal hollywood types"... but the moment they get one of their own. They actually elect them to office

It's not that they actually hate celebrities, it's just that they're jealous they don't get as many. Think of it like a hot cheerleader girl in high school rejecting one of the nerds. He then replies: "Well, I didn't want you anyway! You're ugly! Nyah nyah!" Same concept.

[DemPGH]

I knew about Drew Carey, but it surprised me; he really didn't seem the type to me. I had always heard that Trebek was an older school conservative, so no surprise there.

Yeah, 50 Cent and LL Cool J are big surprises. Alice Cooper as well. I mean, can't you just see him at the GOP national convention!? lol.

They're not on there, but I think Penn of Penn and Teller is a staunch libertarian, which was a little surprising. I don't know what branch of it he subscribes to, though.

[solarstorm]

Here's an article about African American Republicans:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/black-republicans-african-american-gop_n_1832892.html

It also includes another rapper: Eazy E.

There is also an article about Martin Luther King, but I honestly don't understand in how far he was associated with the GOP.