I don’t give a damn that the man was a Democrat.
I liked his acting, I appreciate the fact the man was a veteran of the Merchant Marine and the Korean War. He had a hell of a time of it in the Korean War yet wasn’t always carping about it.
He had a pretty horrible childhood but most people never knew about that until later in his life when his memoir was published. I never heard the man using his childhood as a crutch.
He was, from all accounts I have heard, a humble down to earth man from Oklahoma. A lib? Sure, doesn’t mean I can’t admire his work or the fact he was a great entertainer.
I’ll always remember James Garner on the original Rowan & Martin Laugh In, in one of those short bits.
On a blank stage, Garner meets the lovely (and black) Chelsea Brown. She gushes how much she admired him in Maverick & wherever she has seen in in cinema & goes on and on until he abruptly asks her, “Your place or mine?”
Ms. Brown coos, “Ooooh, Mister Garner!” and they walk off the stage together, arm in arm.
Suddenly, Wolfgang the German soldier appears and mutters,
“Verrrrry interesting! But right now, in Birmingham, dey are showing a test pattern!!”
Well said. Thank you. My dad (age 89) does not believe half of what I tell him about Democrats today. It is only in recent years (ie after Clinton) that he began to change his voting habits.