Posted on 10/03/2004 10:27:34 PM PDT by doug from upland
Write/Producer/Director/Actor David Zucker, who has produced movies such as Airplane, Police Squad, Naked Gun, and Phone Booth, was one of the panelists today at the Liberty Film Festival in West Hollywood.
One of the more memorable comments of the 3-day festival was made by Zucker during the panel discussion with other producers, writers, and actors.
Zucker's family has been a typical Jewish Democratic family forever. He has now become the black sheep of the family since announcing his intention to vote for George Bush this year for president. The family was almost in shock to hear that.
Zucker calls himself a "Sept. 12 Republican." For him, everything changed on Sept. 11, 2001. He recognizes the stakes in the war against the Islamofascists.
Although his mom will not consider voting for a Republican, he keeps sending her emails to educate her a little bit.
As an alternative to voting for a Republican he has given his mom and the rest of the family another way out. Because they don't like Kerry very much, but it would be heresy to vote for Bush, he is urging his relatives to "just leave it blank."
Now that is creative. Democrats, if you have doubts about Kerry, do your civic duty and vote for senators and congressmen and state officials, but leave the vote for the president blank. We can live with that.
remember the scene in one of the Naked Gun 2 1/2 when
Frank Drebin was the guest at a White House dinner
hosted by George H.W. Bush, with Barbara, Sununu, etc.--
(lookalike actors)
and it degenerates into a Three Stooges-inspired mess
where the First Lady is pushed over, attacked by a lobster, etc. (and the Prez doesn't even seem to notice)
and in the same movie, if I remember right, Frank is
seen dining in a restaurant with pictures of Famous
Disaters on the wall. We see:
--The Titanic
--The Hindenburg
--1988 Democratic Nominee Michael Dukakis
:)
Famous DISASTERS (like my typing, ouch!)
(steely)
A blank ballot in Florida is a vote for the Democrat, as interpreted by the Florida State Supreme Court.
This is the big fact that the Elites in the lame stream media have missed...everything changed after Sept 11th and then only ones who don't think so are the morons on the left left left
Please don't place ALL folks of that generation in the category of voting for dems and FDR...I come from a long line of GOP voters who are as knee jerk in their vote as some dems are....And one more thing if you haven't learned to honor your parents and respect your elders it is about time you learned....The Greatest Generation is stil just that they are NOT the gimme generation and you need to go to your room and hide under your covers for a long long time. Tell you what I haven't seen any other group of folks do so much fo so many throughout the world and here at home and with no thought of the cost to themselves. Obviously you did not live through either the Dust Bowl or the Great Depression. Perhaps you need to be a bit more humble and quit [ainting with such a broad brush....unless of course you are just a rat in disguise and then you can go vote for Kerry and leave us alone
For years, it has been a lonely struggle for us. Now we stand on the threshold of a New Frontier!
Still smokin'!
I know, I was generalizing. My grandparents on my mother's side have always been STAUNCH Republicans.
BUMP!
Well, front the front row, it sure seems that time has been very kind to Morgan.
from the front row
Here is a tabulation of the Jewish vote.
PERCENTAGE OF JEWISH VOTE
1916 Republican (Hughes) 45
Democrat (Wilson) 55
1920 Socialist (Debs) 38
Republican (Harding) 43
Democrat (Cox) 19
1924 Progressive (La Follette) 22
Republican (Coolidge) 27
Democrat (Davis) 51 51
1928 Republican (Hoover) 28
Democrat (Smith) 72
1932 Republican (Hoover) 18
Democrat (Roosevelt) 81
1936 Republican (Landon) 15
Democrat (Roosevelt) 85
1940 Republican (Willkie) 10
Democrat (Roosevelt) 90
1944 Republican (Dewey) 10
Democrat (Roosevelt) 90
1948 Progressive (Wallace) 15
Republican (Dewey) 10
Democrat (Truman) 75
1952 Republican (Eisenhower) 36
Democrat (Stevenson) 64
1956 Republican (Eisenhower) 40
Democrat (Stevenson) 60
1960 Republican (Nixon) 18
Democrat (Kennedy) 82
1964 Republican (Goldwater) 10
Democrat (Johnson) 90
1968 American Independent (Wallace) 2
Republican (Nixon) 17
Democrat (Humphrey) 81
1972 Republican (Nixon) 35
Democrat (McGovern) 65
1976 Republican (Ford) 34
Democrat (Carter) 64
1980 Republican (Reagan) 39
Democrat (Carter) 45
Other (Anderson) 14
1984 Republican (Reagan) 31
Democrat (Mondale) 67
1988 Republican (GHW Bush) 35
Democrat (Dukakis) 64
1992 Republican (GHW Bush) 11
Democrat (Clinton) 80
Other (Perot) 9
1996 Republican (Dole) 16
Democrat (Clinton) 78
Other (Perot) 3
2000 Republican (GW Bush) 19
Democrat (Gore) 79
Other (Nader) 1
2004 (Sept 27) Republican (Bush) 24
Democrat (Kerry) 69
Other (Nader) 3
Not only that, a Jewish person once explained to me that Jews vote for liberals because they think you can placate the lowered classes by innoculating them with money. IOW, Jews are less likely to get busted in the head for their wallet if the dregs of society are receiving cash from the government. That's also why they support abortion according to him. You are "thinning the herd" of the poor.
He was a rabid Republican so that could have tainted his thinking but that was what he heard among his Democrat relatives. I guess that is how Barbara Streisand can live in a gated community to keep commoners at bay while lamenting their plight.
Maybe we should stop supporting Israel.
If you trust the NYT & CBS you are going to vote for Kerry.
If you understand not to trust the OM you are not.
You're talking about all rich liberals. Don't single out Jews.
I was answering the question. He seemed to think it was a "Jewish" thing although he had no real experience with gentiles in his family.
Many rich liberals think they are being noble when they support government programs for the poor.
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