I think that the dums are hoping to cash in like we did with Fred Thompson Arnold and RR

No, wait a minute. This could be a win. I'm not from West Virginia (win!), I'm not a Democrat (win!), and it gets Affleck out of Hollywood (win!).

Seems perfectly fine for me.

Unlike Affleck, Fred Thompson, Arnold, and Ron Regan registered to vote. Has Ben?

Typical.
We (republicans) put a few actors in office, and they're successful, so they assume that one of "their" actors would work, too. (Remember Warren Beatty for President?)
Never mind that Reagan ran on a platform, and was way more than an actor by that time. Arnold Schwarzenegger? Yeah, maybe he was a glamour candidate, but he seemed to have ideas.

Arg. I'm always amazed at the way some pols will expound god-knows-what ideas just to garner popular support and get elected.

One word:

GIGLi

As if Perl Harbor wasn't enough to sink this guy. Say, wasn't there a song in Team America, "I love you as much as Perl Harbor sucked"?

This is actually great news. It shows just how desperate the Dems are in Virginia. Sure, they elected a Dem Governor (Mark Warner) but is there no one else on the Dem bench to run against either John Warner or George Allen?

Virginia isn't New York. There is no way a carpetbagging Yankee from Massachusetts is going to wind up representing that state. Plus, Affleck is a big fan of the book and movie "American History X" which means his campaign will be drenched in hard left Moonbats from start to finish. And his close association with the Kerry campaign isn't going to help much either.

It will end up as a high profile, money dump loss for the Kos Kids. So by all means lets encourage his run.

I just hope he gets it into that fool head of his to try a Jimmy Stewart-style one-man filibuster on national television a la Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

AFFLECK BIO

In addition to acting and screenwriting, Affleck has also directed a short feature, the provocatively titled, I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meathook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney

I'm more interested in his islamofascist killing credentials though.

Don't tell me that's not mouse pelt on top of his head.

This'll sound surprising, but I think it's a good idea. I saw him once in an extensive, ad hoc interview with several pundi heavyweights. He was fucking BRILLIANT! My gob was t-totally smacked. Right now, he's almost perfectly centrist. But the thing that stuck with me the most was that he kept reminding me of... a young Ronald Reagan, who also started-off as a Crat.

I don't know how he'll turn out, but he could be f'ing great.

He would be the worse virginia governor since that idiots DOUGLAS WILDER the jerk who forced the residents to buy only one gun a month why do you think they dumed that idiot so quick?

One word:

GIGLi

Bedtime For Bonzo

That was me.

Ace, you gotta' give this one a chance. Wait'll you see him jerk some wonky questions out of the park.

Is this the same Ben Asslick that campaigned so hard for Gore in 2000, and afterward it was revealed that he hadn't even registered to vote in that election?

Bring it on!

(and yes, he's bald. Open secret in Hollywood.)

One can only hope that the world's most astute foreign policy expert, his *ahem!* bosom buddy Gwenyth Paltrow, will campaign with him.

Here is the Affleck interview.

Nope. I was looking for the interview that included Gergen. I halfway through, and no Gergen. Still, Affleck's damned good.

" Affleck's spokesman Ken Sunshine says there's no truth to the rumors ... "

Great name for a spinner whose job is blowing "Ken" up folk's exhaust pipes...

Al Franken's considered running for senate in MN. At least it's his home state.

Great. My state is heading for the crapper as I type this. My only hope is that there aren't enough dumbasses in this state to vote for Affleck.

Maybe he'll get his buddy Kevin Smith to shoot a set-piece campaign commercial just as boring as Kevin's other critically acclaimed canister feces. And maybe Kev buddy can coax a life-like performance from a pretty boy whose apex looks to have been his Oscar-ignored turn in Dazed and Confused.

Okay, here's the transcript of the panel than included Gergen. Apparently it was later in the show, after the break.

Check this out:

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ben, when you watched “Fahrenheit 9/11,” what did you think seeing George W. Bush standing there dumbfounded for eight minutes, knowing that the second tower had been hit and the country was under attack, and he sat there dumbfounded, doing nothing, and probably could have saved some people in the Pentagon that hadn‘t been hit yet?

MATTHEWS: What did you think?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I couldn‘t believe my eyes!

MATTHEWS: Ben?

AFFLECK: Yes. Yes, I think it was—I mean, it‘s obviously very disturbing footage. On the one hand, you see a reaction on a man‘s face that he is clearly pained and shocked. I probably did the same thing sitting on my chair. I was completely freaked out and a little devastated. On the other hand, one does hope that in one‘s leaders, that they have the instinct to spring into action, to take some action or make the appearance of taking some action. And I was disappointed to see that he didn‘t do that, although I don‘t entirely hold it against him because, frankly, I was as shocked and devastated as he was. Although I think flying around in Air Force One for 11 hours before coming back and landing in the White House was probably less forgivable.

MATTHEWS: Ben, do you think that was a fair movie?

AFFLECK: I think it was agitprop. I mean, I think it was good, old-fashioned political propaganda. I think there are some arguments in the movie that are specious, but by the same token, I really think that it‘s—that it offered an important counterpoint and it was really important for a lot of people in America to see, in particular, even taking the Bush sort of...

MATTHEWS: Right.

AFFLECK: ... ad hominem attacks out of it, the relationship between the United States government and various foreign governments, the degree of investment they have in our country, the way that vested interests have sort of the mutually dependent agendas, I think most Americans didn‘t know about. At least, I didn‘t know, and I felt educated by that. It‘s a very polarizing movie.

(Emphasis mine.)

Geez, rdbrewer's mancrush on Affleck is embarrassing.

Over at The Superficial, they're saying that right now Sean Penn is probably throwing his Oscar at the TV and wishing he'd been a little more forthcoming about his own political views...

Affleck, you the bomb in "Phantoms", yo!

redbrewer: I have seen him interviewed, too. And yes, I thought he came across 100x better than I ever expected. However, the transcript you quoted from does not make him look that great. If I remember correctly, the plan is to move the president round for security reasons. It's still hard to get around the fact that as an adult he didn't even bother to vote for so many years and played do as I say, not as I do.

Nevertheless, good luck with your mancrush.

Oh, I so hope it's true Affleck runs, because he'll really "enervate" the Democratic base.

http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/007263.php

Cordially....

Oh, rdbrewer wants to compare Affleck to Reagan does he?

Has Affleck been elected the leader of a major labor organization? Has he steered said organization through strikes and negotiated major labor-manangement agreements? No? Reagan did as President of the Screen Actor's Guild. Twice, I might add.

Since Affleck is so young, we won't even bring Reagan's two terms as California governor into the argument. Before he became a candidate, however, Reagan both lectured and wrote articles extensively on his political views.

Can you point me to anything that Bennifer 1/2 has had published outside the odd vapid, People Mazine interview?

Finally, Bedtime for Bonzo *made money*.

Geez, man, it doesn't take a genius to call F-911 agitprop. The smart answer to the "My Pet Goat" question Affleck fumbled would have been "You're a fucking idiot."

Affleck may not be as aggressively stupid or immature as other Hollywood twits, but that doesn't make him Joe Lieberman. The guy is still a confirmed liberal, only one that possesses a tiny bit of perspective. On the other hand, anybody who can date Gwyneth Paltrow without beating her with a sack of doorknobs must be pretty fucking patient, which is always a plus in a politician.

OK, he doesn't need a drool bucket, but did anyone hear the drivel that came from his mouth when he was on the road drumming up support for the Dems?

I'd pay money to see him in a debate with a real candidate.

BTW, does anyone really believe his writing contribution to the script for "Good Will Hunting" was anything more than an occasional "You got that right, buddy"?

I thought his writing contribution to Good Will Hunting was that he smoked all of Matt Damon's weed.

"bosom buddy Gwenyth Paltrow"

"Bosom?"

Dude, that was a body double in "Shakespeare in Love"!

Stick your mancrush up your asses. If you look at the entire interview, he struggled to keep away from mechanical, compulsory lefty positions, even though they kept pushing him in that direction. He pushed to express a reasonably balanced view, and he did a decent job, considering had had to keep from pissing off the raving left. Hell, he was at a Crat convention. I didn't fucking expecting him to act like a Republican.

Ben Affleck=Yucky Poo-Poo

If you think Affleck that's bad, try Warren Beatty as the governator. /giggle

The thought process: Um ... they voted for Reagen, and he was an actor ... and ... uh, um ... they voted for Schwarzenegger, who ... ahhh ... can kinda act, sorta ... maybe they'll vote for this looser?

moonbatfuckingmorons.

but did anyone hear the drivel that came from his mouth when he was on the road drumming up support for the Dems?

IMO he's enough of an "empty vessel" he could be reprogrammed. Snatch him for a few weeks of Clockwork Orange type 7x24 reprogramming and we'll have our man.

I'd bet one of Ace's crazy blog money dollars on it.

Mikey said:
>No, wait a minute. This could be a win. I'm not
>from West Virginia (win!), I'm not a Democrat
>(win!), and it gets Affleck out of Hollywood (win!).

What does you're not being from West Virginia have to do with the possibility of an Afflick Senate run in Virginia. I'm not from Texas, but that doesn't have anything to do with the topic at hand, either.

Yes, Republicans are so smart. That's why they make up about 10% of college faculty.

Seems like some of you sound a bit scared--I hear Sen. Allen makes George Bush look pretty smart.

See you in 2006.

"Three words:

Bedtime For Bonzo"

Come on. That's hardly in the same league of awfulness as Gigli.

Which reminds me - anyone else seen that movie where Reagan unites the exploited against an evil fruit company in Central America? Oh, the ironies.

*

"Seems like some of you sound a bit scared--I hear Sen. Allen makes George Bush look pretty smart."

Good for him. What's that got to do with President-to-be Giuliani?

"Yes, Republicans are so smart. That's why they make up about 10% of college faculty."

Yeah, those stupid Republicans, more interested in making money and influencing world events ...

(written from a UCBerkeley office, by the way)

Oops. Duh. Okay, I see the point of your Allen comment. Running for Senate in Virginia. Got it.

"Yes, Republicans are so smart" indeed.