Posted on 09/10/2010 4:19:48 AM PDT by Marcus
The acrimony surrounding health care reform, stoked up to white hotness as the 2010 midterm elections draw nigh, seems to have claimed another victim, albeit an odd one: Andy Griffith, the long-living television and film star.
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As I wrote, he at least joined the Marines.
He was gay.
Now that you mention it, Otis was probably a conservative. In a town full of liberals - probably why he drank so much. :)
I didn’t ask and he didn’t tell. ;-)
I will never be able to watch the Andy Griffith Show ever again. I feel like a part of my childhood just died. Andy - you are such a jerk!
Andy was a big drug warrior. All he did was shut down stills.
I guess Andy is a big a nut case as Opie.
andy griffith only played Andy Taylor on tv, he has never had half the brains that were written in the script.
Yep, “Surprise, surprise!” The rumor was he and Rock Hudson were an item. It’s almost like finding out that Alice Cooper is a conservative and devout Christian.
Log Cabin Republican.
The only true conservatives were Otis and Ernest T.
There’s no fool like an old fool.
As I wrote, he at least joined the Marines.
Log Cabin Republican
Good. He’s always—ALWAYS—been a raging Lib political activist. Now more people are seeing it.
He hid behind folksy characters whose beliefs he probably despised. Now more people know what was behind the mask.
Good.
Let’s hope the same is true for Henry “The Fonz” Winkler and little Ronnie “Baseball Hat to hide the Dome” Howard.
They put together a little ad in 2008 that was oh-so-cute and heart-warming and helped to put America’s first half-black communist in the White House.
LMAO!!
I’m just glad Edgar Buchanan didn’t live to see this. (Uncle Joe on Petticoat Junction...)
He is probably influenced by Ron Howard, a know Lib.
Briscoe Darling and family. Those boys were Capitalists who regularly turned corn, sugar and molasses into a more valuable commodity. Heck, they even sang about it.
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