RIP
And so he just blindly followed the Demonrat’s march to the left?
Great actor, but not very smart
Garner was a great actor and it disappointed me that he was a typical Hollywood leftist.
For the most part he didn’t really push his liberal views but every now and then it would creep into his parts.
Loved his acting, but despised his sleazy political ad with Jack Lemmon that ran in California, that called for some sort of tax raise.
It is disgusting to require the writers to change the political party of his character in a Michener mini-series.
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.
“Mel and I got along fine.”
What a sad time we live in when it is assumed people with differences can’t get along.
But Barack Obama was/is??
Garner was basically a New Deal Oakie Democrat. Like many of his generation, he was raised a Democrat and died a Democrat. It's tribal -- logic has nothing to do with it.
As far as the prejudice against certain legitimate backgrounds like acting goes, one of America's best Governors and Presidents was a former actor, so that prejudice is obviously flawed IMO. It's not the background, it's the man.
Uh-huh. While Southern Democrats stood in the doorways of schools to prevent black students from entering.
Democrats invented the Civil Rights movement? Since when?
The Solid South is gone, killed by Lyndon Johnson and George Corley Wallace, both Democrats.
The Republican Party was founded on a platform of anti-Slavery and the equality of the races before the law. Since when did the party of opportunist looters - the Democrats - take on that mantle?
Only when they thought they could take votes from the people who stood for principle.
Garner was from Oklahoma, born in the Depression. If he was for civil rights, it put him against the party he was born into - which many young Southerners did in the early 60's, or civil rights would have never survived.
But they didn't invent it. On the contrary. They merely caught up to the rest of the country.
Garner was one my favorite actors. RIP.
Right on Arnold, wrong on Reagan. Of course Garner and Arnold got along. Arnold pretty much is a Democrat in all but name.
There are some leftists I will not support at the box office: Sean Penn, Danny Glover, and a few others. James Garner was not one of them, as far as I know he did not support third world dictators and he did get along with conservatives. I would not be able to view many movies if I judged actors and directors strictly along Party lines.
Let me entertain you
Let me make you smile
“Interestingly, when principled Democrat James Garner had to work with “ultraconservative” Mel Gibson...”
No bias here (eyes rolling).
Constitution says natural born citizen, 35 years of age; if 8 years of being governor of the largest state doesn't measure up , then Garner's only logic was the logic of hate.
Garner was a professional that did not allow his politics to overflow into his work as others have done.
Why even bring this up except to raise controversy on the day of the man’s death? Shame on the OP.
RIP James Garner. Thank you for bringing some well enjoyed entertainment into my life.
Also in his memoir, James recounts being approached about running for U.S. Congress as a Republican in 1962.
“It didn’t stop them when I told them I was a Democrat…. They just thought I could win.”
Charleton Heston was also a Democrat until 1964. Heston supported Stevenson and JFK and marched with MLK Jr in 1963.
How’s his wife Mariette Hartley holding up?
My father was a conservative democrat. I think if he were alive today he would be a conservative independent.
And I believe James Garner was similar. I cannot see him walking hand in hand with Rock Hudson or any homosexual in a pride parade where men walk naked showing their disgusting private parts in view of children. I cannot see him speaking up for the race baiters be they Al Sharpton or Thad Cochran. I cannot see him speaking up for legalizing (amnesty) of millions and millions of lawbreakers. I cannot see him supporting government shoving its health care laws down everybody’s throats or sicking the IRS on political opponents.
He was 86 when he died. I did not see him championing anything democrat in his later years. Even 20 years ago the democrat party was far to the right of where it is today.
A democrat from the era that James Garner lived through is not even close to the democrats of today.