Dan Aykroyd: So bipartisan it's funny (he's supporting Bush because he wants Hillary to win in '08)

NY Daily News ^ | 2.17.04

[ambrose]

Dan Aykroyd: So bipartisan it's funny

When it comes to finding a middle way in politics, no one is more bizarrely bipartisan than Dan Aykroyd. How many people do you know who support both President Bush and Sen. Hillary Clinton?

"Personally, I know the President, I know his wife and his father," the actor was telling us the other day over lunch at Michael's, where he came to beat the drum (actually, he thumped an ice bucket) for "The Barbarian Invasions," the Oscar-nominated film by his friend Denys Arcand. "The Bushes are a very loving family."

Though he calls himself a "dyed-in-the-wool liberal," the "Dragnet" star is also a major police buff.

"There's a tremendous initiative in law enforcement [that] may be reversed if Bush is not re-elected," he said. "Let this administration finish this war and this fight against terrorism."

The "isolationist" in him doesn't think America should depend on Middle East oil, but "there's nothing wrong with trying to protect our Western lifestyle."

Aykroyd admits he was handicapped in getting Bush elected - he's a Canadian citizen.

"My wife [Donna Dixon] has the vote in the family," said the "Ghostbusters" star, giving a smile to the fetching former Miss Virginia. Dixon rolled her eyes. "I'm for [Sen. John] Kerry," she said.

The trouble with a Kerry win, Aykroyd pointed out, is that it would "push Hillary off into the future. "

"If Bush is re-elected, then Hillary is set up to run for President in 2008," said Aykroyd, who suspects the Clintons may feel the same way.

"I'll be there with my band to help her. Then we'll have the glory days back for the Democrats."

[AmericanVictory]

Well, if he uses his considerable talent support Bush in winning the Terror War it could be very positive. He could start by appearing on Dennis Miller's new show and doing a riff with him on the subject.

[leadpenny]

W, take all of those votes you can get.

Maybe by the time 08 rolls around many of these folks will have grown a brain.

[canalabamian]

He's a Canadian actor, so what? Take off, eh!

[tioga]

W, take all of those votes you can get.

Aykroyd is a Canadian and his wife is voting for Kerry. What votes?

[leadpenny]

The votes from those who want just that. If any Hillary supporters subscribe to her intentions, - that is to make sure a dem does not win in 04 so she is more appealing in 08 - take their votes and run with 'em.

Worry about 08 when we get there.

[G.Mason]

"Dan Aykroyd: So bipartisan it's funny"

Girls will be girls!

[tioga]

So there is a whole contingent of votes FOR Bush, just to save hitlery her spot as prime candidate in '08?

[Bluntpoint]

"I'll be there with my band to help her. Then we'll have the glory days back for the Democrats"

Back again will be the cigars without the smoke-filled back rooms.

[leadpenny]

I may have the wrong impression but I get the feeling you want to argue. Something bugging you?


If there is just one vote out there as described in the article - take it.

Notice I used the word "if" in my posts.

[tioga]

No, I am not arguing, I just didn't see the mention of votes, thought I was missing something. It really never did occur to me that there was even a segment of the voters who would vote for hillary that way. I am NOT arguing, just amazed at the concept. If the article stated that then I missed it. It is an intriguing concept.

[ApesForEvolution]

Headline: "Hollywood Communists Find Bush Family to be Loving, Find Reasons to Support Bush in '04; i.e., Hillary's our Heaven's Gate in '08!"

[jocon307]

I for one have had a quite low opinion of Dan Ackroyd ever since he went after that junkie woman who (allegedly, evidently, whatever) gave John Belushi his lethal injection.

I felt that he had failed his friend, and instead of expressing remorse, or even guilt, over his own failure went hammer and tongs after someone who was just another junkie, like Belushi was, and acted as though she were a murderer. To me this seemed like classic psychological projection, but then, that is the liberals' stock in trade.

Go back to Canada Dan, take off!

[G.Mason]

"I for one have had a quite low opinion of Dan Ackroyd ......."

Dan Aykroyd was okay when he was on the old "Saturday Night Live" show, and the "Blues Brothers" movie.

As you said, after the death of John Belushi Aykroyd became a zero.

[jmstein7]

BUMP!

[LS]

Donna Dixon (rolls eyes), brains fall out on floor.

[ilgipper]

Dragnet? Ghostbusters? Those movies are more than 15 years old.

[dfwgator]

Dan, you ignorant slut!

[Xenalyte]

Ghostbusters is still one of the 10 funniest movies of all time, and easily THE funniest action movie ever.

[wayoverontheright]

The news here is the repudiation of Kerry by a lib, and it has to do with the SECURITY ISSUE, a good omen for our side.

Hillary's not running right now, so Ackroyd's endorsement of her is simply window dressing, so that Hollywoodians will continue to talk to old Dan.