Surprising celebrity Democrats/liberals?

Jesse Ventura is a libertarian who is more on the side of Trump than a liberal dem.

Warren Buffett

How are we defining “surprising?” Celebrities that seem like rednecks ?

Garth Brooks.

Tim McGraw & Faith Hill

The late Lauren Bacall was a liberal Democrat. Learned this from her appearances on Tom Snyder's show.

I thought Jesse Ventura was a Bernie guy? I know he was anti-gay marriage at one point until Gladix talked some sense into him. on the set of Demolition Man.

Billy Ray Cyrus Trisha Yearwood Garth Brooks

Post #3: Celebrities who seem very southern and/or quite macho.

*Glen Shadix

Larry Hagman is shocking to me.

Helen Lawson

Burt Lancaster

Garth and Trisha are liberals. Ditto Tim McGraw and Faith Hill.

Other country music libs, and God bless 'em all, are a lot less surprising. Emmylou, Willie, Mary Chapin, Steve Earle, Vince Gill, Rosanne Cash, Rodney Crowell, Eric Church, Brenda Lee, Kathy Mattea, Nanci Griffith, and on and on.

Hell, Steve Earle is actually a RADICAL lefty, if I'm not mistaken.

How can Jesse Ventura be a libertarian/Trump fan when he's a pro-union and a Bernie supporter? Trump is just a generic republican with a big mouth. If it wasn't clear before, it certainly is now.

Stallone makes conservative/right-wing movies, but has donated money to some democratic politicians. He even talked himself middle-of-the-road kind of guy in an AICN Q&A session from 2006.

Dave Bautista's parents are a lesbian couple so it would be weird if he wasn't a liberal. Obviously there are rabid homophobes who were raised by gay couples but that seems rare.

Kevin Costner.

Reese Witherspoon

Richard Dean Anderson

Larry Hagman scoping out his naked daughter's labia was a pretty clear clue

r21 you are implying liberals commit incest? I think that is reserved for slack jaw red neck republicans who marry their cousins - fucktard

Lee Marvin

Vince Gill surprises me. Isn't he married to super Christian Amy Grant?

I am more surprised when Celebs are dumpsters. Celebs are usually pretty liberal given the industry.

Poor deluded souls. And none of them as sexy as I was.

M.

Tim McGraw

Didn't Christian Amy Grant fuck Vince Gill when they were both married? I actually don't think she's a super conservative Christian. Not all Christians are bad.

I remember when she was having all those pop hits in the 90s, several of my ultra conservative relatives were very upset that she had gone down that route. Luckily, I quit speaking to them years and years ago, so I don't know what they thought when it came out that she was an adulteress.

Axl Rose

Brandon Flowers

Barry Switzer

Vince Lombardi was a Dem who was also pro-gay. Pretty cool for a football coach who was born 100 years ago

R22:Apparently you forgot that Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were cousins, but please keep On with your stereotyping

[quote]Vince Gill surprises me. Isn't he married to super Christian Amy Grant?

Please don't put all Christians in Trump's camp. There are many who reject him for obvious reasons.

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were fifth cousins once removed, R34.

R14, Yes Steve Earle is a huge liberal as was his son Justin Townes Earle. Another Southerner who is a big Democrat is Park Overall. She considered running for some office in Tennessee a few years back. She seems like a pretty decent person too.

Jello Biafra from the Dead Kennedys.

"Brandon Flowers" -- wow, a liberal Mormon. Hoo-da-thunk.

R35 - Can you tell me where in that sentence I placed the Gills in the Trump camp? Some conservative Christians sat out the election rather than vote for him. I don't even know if she's that conservative anymore.

R29 - That was the gossip back then, but they said that they didn't start the relationship until the end of their respective marriages. I don't know what the state of Gills' marriage, but the singer Grant was married to (I think his name was Chapman) was in the middle of a raging dug addiction and were in divorce proceedings, IIRC.

Ladd Drummond

Marie Osmond, the lone Democrat among her sickeningly right wing family.

In the case of Brandon Flowers, it’s that his whole extended family is hardcore Trumpist with a couple of exceptions.

They’re not Utah’s typical “white and delightsome” Romney Republicans; not even close.

RIP Justin Townes Earle

Really, R40? That would be the only news to me on this thread and I’d be pleasantly surprised. Rhee is a guilty pleasure of mine.

Gill and Grant either left their respective spouses for one another, or got married once the divorces were final. (This was sort of shocking at the time, as Grant, at least, had a rep for being a rather straightlaced, conservative Christian.)

Either way, they totally pissed off DL Faves and the only "saved" people on the planet (heavy sarcasm being employed here, kids,) the loonies at Westboro Baptist "Church."

The Westboro asswipes started doing some of their tiresome "protests" at Gill and Grant concerts. Because God Hates Divorcees / Remarrieds ALMOST as much as God Hates Rhymes-With-Rags.

Little did they expect Gill to call their bluff after one of his concerts, when he went outside and confronted the twats directly to their inbred faces.

"Are any of you even Phelpses?" he demanded, referring to Westboro founder and reputed closet case Fred Phelps, as well as his satanic spawn.

Gill then turned to one protester he apparently recognized and opined, "You're a big dipshit!"

Which is why Vinnie Gill is one of my all-time heroes.

Reese Witherspoon is NOT liberal. Not even at all.

Ben Affleck, for all his drunken fuckery is a very left leaning Dem. he actively campaigns (or tries to when he’s not plastered) and donates a lot of money. Same w Matt Damon. Leo is a big environmentalist. Where private jets and yachts fit into that vision, I’m not sure, but he tries.

Reese Witherspoon isn't a Republican, r46

Reece Whiterspoon is actually a Know-Nothing.

Rex Chapman was a University of Kentucky basketball star in the 80s, so probably well known to people outside the state, but he’s a good liberal with a very active Twitter that gets linked to everywhere. Coming from Ky. I was really pleasantly surprised when I started seeing his name and confirmed it was the same guy. He must be hated now by the Trump loving basketball fans in the state.

Canadian born actor Stephen Amell who works almost exclusively in America took out American citizenship claiming he wanted to be able to vote in American elections. He's a Democrat. A bit weird that he would care so much about politics and go through the hoops of becoming American.

Don’t equate Ventura with Trump.

VERY different characters.

Paul Lynne was a Whig.

Richard Marx, of all people, is very outspoken and entertaining on Twitter.

R50 I've heard other Canadian-Americans say the same thing.

r50 I know, right!

[quote] Vince Gill surprises me. Isn't he married to super Christian Amy Grant?

I'm not sure where anyone is getting the idea that Amy Grant and Vince Gill are Democrats. They may hate Trump, they may be moderate, and they may be gay-friendly. But they are most definitely Republicans. Amy Grant has donated lots of money to politicians, ALL of it to Republicans, over the years -- including to George W. Bush, Lamar Alexander, Bill Frist, Bob Corker, Fred Thompson, Marsha Blackburn, and Katherine Harris. NOTE: There are several Amy Grants at the link, so you have to look for the ones that are specifically her. I know Vince Gill has donated to Republicans, too, but I can't find a link.

And here is a link to a story about Vince Gill and Amy Grant singing at a GOP fundraiser in 2002. They were -- literally -- big Bush supporters. I suppose their views may have changed since then (they probably hate Trump like the Bushes do), but I doubt they've become Democrats.

Pro wrestler Kevin Nash

Larry Hagman surprises me because he was homophobic toward gay co-stars Dack Rambo and Timothy Patrick Murphy. And I once read he made his family do "flag parades" around their Malibu property.

Stone Cold Steve Austin.

I think James Garner was the only popular TV western actor of his generation who was a liberal. All the rest were big right wingers.

Andy Griffith - he even did tv commercials supporting Obamacare when the Tea Party was at its height.

Gregory Peck, a very liberal and committed Democrat.

I'm pretty sure Ronald Reagan was a liberal Democrat (his father benefited from FDR's New Deal) -- until he met Nancy.

R58 despite his limitations and his legendary laziness, Big Sexy Kevin Nash might be the funniest most charming man alive. I see how he got his money and talked his way into a position of authority.

Probably hesitate to call him anything but broadly liberal, though. He has liberal social attitudes (vocal support for gays, for example), but economically he skews more libertarian (“fuck you, I’m getting mine”).

R14 I'm pleasantly surprised to read about Vince Gill, which means Amy Grant is more likely the same. Well they have to be since they're both "adulterers" lol. I can now listen to Amy's music even more now.

OP Jim Cornette is terrifying. He’d probably go far in politics.

Jesse Ventura was the worst governor that Minnesota ever had.

I think Martina did a trick on Chrissie because Chris had always been a proud regular republican: so many pics of her with Reagan or Bush father. So I didn't want to see her tweets. I finally gave in to my curiosity and OMG she's retweeting Nancy, Kamala and Joe like you would not believe it. No AOC (yet) though.

Chelase handler surprises me, she was nothing pc in her E Chelase lately show, now she's putting out cringey specials about how her whiteness privilege and shit. Still better to have more allies than enemies.

Gay porn stars who are anti-Trump (shocking I know!):

Chad Hunt

Atticus (Sean Cody)

Andrew Justice

Robert Harris

J.T. Denver

I read that R10 and thought maybe you knew him and that was his nickname!

A friend of a friend knew Glen well, I always wish I'd met him, he seemed like an eccentric hoot.

Garner got a lot of guff for it too, R61. He and Ed Asner were probably two of the most attacked leftie actors for decades.

Asner spoofed all the accusations of him being a leftist extremist in a cameo in MOON OVER PARADOR.

Jesse Ventura is absolutely anti-Dump and pro-mask.

It's kind of weird that Ventura is anti-helmet but pro-mask, but he's never been the most consistent guy.

Stallone is not a Democrat. I saw footage of him at a Trump fundraiser.

R30 Axl was among the first to protest Trump using his music at rallies. Whether this is down to political affiliation, or just indignance due to licensing issues, is still unclear.

Axl has gone on off on MAGAts a few times since, though. Considering he started out as a bigoted delinquent little whitetrash so-and-so from Lafayette, he’s made quite the turnaround.

[quote]Garner got a lot of guff for it too

I would've told 'em all to kiss my big, bountiful, perfectly round ass.

R64. A college friend of mine reported that Kevin Nash has a big cock.

Axl W. Rose is a strange one. When Pet Shop Boys played Hollywood Bowl (1990 or 1991 when "Behaviour" came out), Axl went backstage with a big bouquet of roses (like the one on the cover of "Behaviour") and gushed like a fangirl, how he was a huge fan, it was his favorite album at the time, etc. They (PSB) found the whole episode quite amusing in a good way.

R56: OK, NO! If Grant gave money to Marsha BITCHburn, she is NOT gay-friendly.

Richard Widmark. I guess because he usually played heavies I assumed he was a conservative asshole. Lifelong Democrat who hated gun violence and was majorly in support of gun control

Bette Davis. Considering she was "old" Hollywood, she remained a Democrat until her death.

R16 Stallone has done several appearances on the 700 Club with Rat Robertson & kissed up to the host's ass each time.

No democrat in today's world does that.

Stallone kisses up to libs when he could get a top award or needs financing from a major studio but goes right wing when his career isn't in the award winning category or can depend on sequels to fund his lifestyle.

W. Beatty

K. Costner

M. Ali

M. Bolton

R. DeNiro

A. Agassi

C. Chse

E. Asner

T. Danson

B. White

M. Ross

M. Gilbert

H. Ford

D. Hoffman

N. Grace

E. Harris

T. Lee Jones

J. Nicholson

R. Philbin

M. Sheen

R. Redford

S. Stone

R78 how did your friend verify that? He used to wrestle, or?

R79 imagine thinking Axl Rose is a stranger to cock lol

He hates beautiful women so much he threw one down a flight of stairs :/

[quote]It's kind of weird that Ventura is anti-helmet but pro-mask, but he's never been the most consistent guy.

Refuse to wear a helmet and it mostly affects just you. Refuse to wear a mask, you're affecting everyone around you.

Widmark was a liberal and a genuinely good guy

This thread just makes me happy 😊.

Not as happy as the Surprise Anal thread from several years ago...but happy nonetheless!

R85. It was a one night stand. He was still playing college basketball at the time. She was a beautiful woman, so I guessed he liked that sort of thing

R90 that manstealing BITCH. I hate her.

As someone who has had to help out in not one but two emergency motorcycle crashes where there were no helmets worn either time, R87, I have to say I disagree quite a bit with that assessment.

R66 Corny is my favorite nutcase talking-head. His rants are poetic fits of apoplectic beauty.

Jesse Ventura is not a Democrat, but neither is he a Republican. He is an Independent, and served as Governor of Minnesota as an Independent.

He is actually often a thoughtful man when it comes to politics, but he has a ridiculously oversized ego and a ridiculously thin skin, which was an enormous liability when he was in office. He complained endlessly about the criticism he received from "the media jackals" (as he called them) newspapers and media stations in the Twin Cities, and it interfered enormously with his ability to govern.

What he has in common with Trump is that both men wanted to govern other people but never be criticized by them. He is much, much smarter than Trump, but like Trump he had no business being in politics.

[quote]I think James Garner was the only popular TV western actor of his generation who was a liberal. All the rest were big right wingers.

I've always loved him. Just adore him

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall were both liberal lefty types - hated McCarthy - supported Adlai Stevenson when he ran against Eisenhower

I was surprised about Gregory Peck. I thought he would have been an old school conservative type, but he was actually really liberal.

Also was surprised to learn that Gerald Ford was pro-gay post-presidency.

Harrison Ford is a surprising Dem. He is very dry and is into a lot of hobbies that don’t come off as liberal. Same with his film resume. He had a lot of choice things to say about Trump and the way he used to be in the eighties, vs the way he is now. Harrison said Cheeto used to be a lot of fun when he knew him, but now he is a moron.

Frank Sinatra’s tastes, attitude, and lifestyle all screamed republican but he was always a staunch democrat.

Back in Ol' Blue Eyes' day it was the Republicans who were tough on crime and always talking about going after mobsters. You can imagine why he might have supported the Democrats.

Streisand. Everything about her is entitled, selfish, self-absorbed, narcissistic Repig.

A question for the people who are just posting names: The FUCK is your problem? Can you be more specific? I'm looking at you R84.

What about Dolly?

[quote]Please don't put all Christians in Trump's camp. There are many who reject him for obvious reasons.

Exactly!

R72 I recall hearing or reading that Ed Asner is a homophobe.

[quote] Also was surprised to learn that Gerald Ford was pro-gay post-presidency.

Could that have anything to do with Steven?

Robert Vaughn

Vaughn was a longtime member of the Democratic Party.[3] His family was also Democratic and was involved in politics in Minneapolis.[22] Early in his career, he was described as a "liberal Democrat".[23][24][25][26][27] He was opposed to the Hollywood Blacklist of suspected Communists on freedom of speech principles, but Vaughn also was opposed to Communism as a totalitarian system.[28] Vaughn campaigned for John F. Kennedy in the Presidential election of 1960 for U.S. President.[12] He was the chair of the California Democratic State Central Committee speakers bureau and actively campaigned for candidates in the 1960s.[12][22]

Vaughn was the first popular American actor to take a public stand against the Vietnam War and was active in the peace group Another Mother for Peace.[29] With Dick Van Dyke and Carl Reiner, he was a founder of Dissenting Democrats.[30] Early in the 1968 presidential election, they supported the candidacy of Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy, who was running for president as an alternative to Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who had supported President Lyndon Johnson's escalation of the war in Vietnam.[30]

Here's 71 of them from old Hollywood.

I'm surprised by Lucille Ball and Gene Kelly. Not sure why...

Elsa Lanchester's parents were weird - practiced witchcraft during her childhood - I mean, I guess she was telling the truth. British Eccentrics. Anyway, hardly surprising that she'd lean left. But some of them - I mean, Ava Gardner was from South Carolina I think.

*oops Gardner's from North Carolina.

Another surprise: Johnny Carson.

r108/r109, Ava Gardner was dirt-poor in North Carolina growing up during the Great Depression, and a lot of the dirt-poor, especially in the South, had enormous gratitude to the Dems and FDR for giving them jobs then. The South was very pro-Democratic until the Civil Rights Movement, and then after the Civil Rights Act of 1965 Nixon used the so-called "Southern strategy" to start wooing racist Southern whites away from the Dems to vote Republican.

Ah that makes sense. The Dixiecrats kept the South solidly Democratic till, like you say, the Civil Rights Movement and the Southern strategy. But maybe, Ava's contacts in Hollywood were also the Democratic type: Sinatra, the Kennedys, Peter Lawford, etc. so I'd like to think she wasn't the racist Dixiecrat type but who knows. I think there were rumors she was mixed-race. Anyhow, loved her in Night of the Iguana. Don't know much about her otherwise - except didn't she marry that ugly midget Mickey Rooney? Weird.

It's interesting to me that some of the loudest and staunchest Hollywood liberals during the Golden Era of Hollywood, like Charlton Heston and Frank Sinatra, became right-wingers at the end of their life. Sinatra changed for incredibly petty reasons: he was angry at JFK for piddling little snubs during the latter's presidency, and by that time Sinatra was such an egomaniac that he changed parties just to snub the Kennedys. Heston's change has never been clear to me.

Wikipedia has a lot about Heston's change - said he didn't change, the Democratic Party changed... during a speech at Brandeis University, Heston stated, "Political correctness is tyranny with manners" - and it was so sad that white men suffer reverse discrimination yada yada.... poor widdle Chawwie never hadda chance...

Ed Asner is gay.

I don't think you'd call him a dem or a liberal, but at least based on his Instagram feed, Troy Aikman is a not a Trumper. I don't think you'd see him out there campaigning for Biden, but he doesn't seem to be Team Trump the way Jerry Jones is. If TX could actually run a reasonably competent dem that could win (sorry Beto) against Cruz, I could see Aikman supporting that person

Everyone is surprised when they find out Angelina is not a liberal/registered Democrat.

Oh I forgot to mention Ed O'Neil is at least a Democratic ally despite being from Ohio. He campaigned for a few Democrats.

Tom Colicchio surprised me recently. He's apparently friends with purple-haired queer congresswoman Rosa DeLario and on his twitter he was very committed to electing Democrats. Padma was always an obvious Lib, but Tom seemed the sort to be a closet Rethug.

I always take my political views from gay porn stars, R70. So thanks for that. Does anyone know Bo Sinns' views as a Canadian on the pipeline? Is he a big Trudeau supporter?

As to Ventura. I think he was independent but Libertarian leaning way back when Libertarianism was sorta cool and just meant independent-thinking for a lot of people. Sounds like he's moved into mainstream Democratic territory of late, perhaps in response to Trump.

I'm surprised Sean Penn is a leftie considering that he's always been a tough guy and big gun fan (though he has recently stated that Charlize Theron talked him out of it). On the flip side, Sylvester Stallone is fairly anti-gun despite leaning right and making a few right-wing action movies. I guess it does, indeed, take different strokes to move the world.

R116, that is the least surprising thing in the world. She’s always struck me as an entitled, empathiless, self-centred cunt. The endless kids are a mask.

Ventura isn't a "liberal."

You know Republicans are fascist when anyone who takes issue with Trump's crimes, pathological lying, dictator ambitions and psychopathic behavior is branded a "liberal."

What a debauched, Fake News, fascist cesspool the Republicans have become!

Larry Hagman evidence: An interview in the 2000s where he was trashing Reagan.

As for Reagan: his turn to to the right was mainly a couple of things: The guy from GE as well as some Cold War book (I can't remember the name) heavily influencing him.

Pro wresting:

I know Kevin Nash liked Obama and endorsed Biden in 2020. Although, I remember a comment he made in one of his shoot interviews that came across as kind of sexist.

Jim Cornette is/was a Bernie guy. I also remember a rant he went on about Vince and Linda McMahon being Republican.

Mick Foley is a loyal Democrat.

I think the Rhodes family are Democrats? At least Cody is.

Mamie Van Doren, still sharp at 90, is very liberal. I follow her on Twitter. She's like an opposite-world Brendad Ickson.

Nancy Sinatra is another sensible liberal.

I'm surprised to see so many people say Garth Brooks is a Democrat when he is absolutely, admittedly a Republican. He most recently said so at the Biden inauguration when he joked he was the only Republican to play at a Democratic president's inauguration.

He may have been anti Trump but he's not a Democrat.