[Hawkeye's Girl]

I watched most of the episode tonight, and I liked it. Alan Alda's Republican character was a senator from California and described as smart and caring.

Yeah, most of the time Hollywood doesn't bother to move beyond the evil stereotype, but sometimes they do get it and write multi-layered Republicans.

[freestyle]

It is interesting. Alda is known as quite the liberal...

I don't remember hearing him being too outspoken lately (i.e. this last election), but I think his politics are well known.

The episode last night showed him as a sharp guy. Not mean, and not an "evil republican" type caricature. I did notice that the slipped in that he is Anti-Partial birth abortion, but not pro-life. I don't think Hollywood is ready to portray an intelligent person as pro-life yet.

We'll see how it unfolds.