Silver calls himself a 9-11 Democrat, like Dennis Miller, like Ed Koch, who threw their support to Bush after 9-11
I don't know if Miller was ever a card carrying Democrat
keep in mind as well that being a conservative in Hollywood is like being a leper, unless you are Mel Gibson and don't give a fuck because you are worth 500 million bucks or so
Alec Baldwin's brother Steven (?), one of the brothers anyhoo, is also a GOP supporting born again Christian, wow a double strike against you and the poor guy ain't much of an actor to start
but must be fun at Baldwin family holidays.........
and then think who are the conservative leaning actors
Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris, Clint Eastwood, and of course Ahnald.......
no need to apologize for being a Democrat in a former life
although I have conservative parents, in the political sense, even I was more liberal in my naive youth, because you are idealistic at that age, and part of growing up is challenging your parents viewpoints, and let's face it, besides my parents, all other influences are liberal or left leaning esp in Canada except I went to a university that is less liberal (it's forte was its business program or training those evil captains of industries) or I realize it now in retrospect that it is or was less liberal than the norm and the law school which I attended had many grounded in reality professors, because many of them also worked part time in the outside real world, as practicing lawyers, arbitrators and corporate consultants ( of course I went to school when Conservatives were in power too)
but the older you get, the more you understand the way the world really works
He did openly define himself as a liberal.
What not to many people know, is that he started to turn on the dems, on the issue of school vouchers, 9/11 just accelerated it, and ideology wise, he's become much more conservative.
Alot of people think Al Michales gave him the right nudge.