Porn and Politics

AP ^ | 6/9/05 | Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

[Crackingham]

The annual President's Dinner, a Republican Party fundraising event featuring President Bush, could get an extra dash of spice this year with porn actress and former California gubernatorial candidate Mary Carey planning to attend. The porn industry and Republicans may seem like strange bedfellows, but Ms. Carey said she sees Tuesday night's dinner as a good opportunity to learn more about their policies and do some networking. She plans to run for lieutenant governor of California as an independent next year. Ms. Carey acknowledges that some people just think of her as a busty blonde who does porn films.

“I also have a brain and political aspirations,” said Ms. Carey, whose priorities include legalizing gay marriage.

Carl Forti, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, which is co-hosting the dinner, had no qualms about Ms. Carey and her boss, adult film executive Mark Kulkis, attending.

“Their money was donated to the NRCC. The NRCC's job is to elect Republicans. We'll take that money and use it to elect more Republicans,” Mr. Forti said.

Ms. Carey was one of 135 candidates on the California ballot to replace Gray Davis in the 2003 recall election. Voters picked another actor — Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Mr. Kulkis, a self-described “Schwarzenegger Republican” who is fiscally conservative and socially liberal, was invited to the dinner by the NRCC and paid $5,000 for his and Ms. Carey's plates.

Ms. Carey and Mr. Kulkis said they want to prove stereotypes of porn workers wrong.

[Paleo Conservative]

Maybe she likes Bush?

[LauraleeBraswell]

Someone needs to tell her to stick to porn.

[Republican Wildcat]

Another thread on this? Good grief.

[xrp]

Learn to use the search feature, it's already POSTED TWICE!

[Republican Wildcat]

Ms. Carey and Mr. Kulkis said they want to prove stereotypes of porn workers wrong.

What? You mean like they peddle smut? That stereotype?

[Oztrich Boy]

It's more respectable than politics

[Clemenza]

I'm willing to bet that there are many Freepers who alternate between this site and Danni's Hard Drive.

[Lurker]

What's the difference?

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[SteveMcKing]

There are things I don't like about everyone, including myself. If they are otherwise conservative, then I'm happy to have them on our side.

[Sixgun Symphony]

They are socialy liberal, fiscally conservative.

Reminds me of what used to be called the Rockefeller Republicans. They are pro-business and porn is big business. Being in porn, they are very liberal on cultural issues.

[Skylab]

They are socially liberal, fiscally conservative.

Reminds me of what used to be called the Rockefeller Republicans. They are pro-business and porn is big business. Being in porn, they are very liberal on cultural issues.

The Rockefeller Republicans were socially liberal and fiscally liberal. That was the whole problem.

[goldstategop]

RINOs and Porn = Socially Liberal GOP.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[goldstategop]

Christine Todd Whitman and Doug Forrester - meet Mariah Carey!

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[SteveMcKing]

I consider the "practice" of conservatism to be setting good and sound public policy (both economic and social), mainly in the form of laws. By that standard, one can virtually be a hedonist and still be conservative, so long as he or she supports a conservative government.

In the same spirit, I don't obey every rule the catholic church has taught me, but that doesn't mean I want them to change and suddenly become a liberal institution. (Nor would I want them enforcing standards on people outside their domain...)

[goldstategop]

I suppose you can be culturally tolerant and fiscally conservative. There is room for all kinds of conservatives. The real question is when they stop being conservatives? My view is when they challenge age-old norms in the name of trendiness or support liberal attemps to keep expanding government in the name of "leveling the playing field."

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[The Red Zone]

Very strange, as I would assume this lady's 'art' is one of the things that Mr. Gonzales is threatening to put out of business. Is she trying to cultivate the libertarian wing of the GOP?

[kcvl]

I wonder if Juan-Carlos Rodriguez worried about a porn king living in the White house and having oral sex in the oval office? Stay out of HER SEX LIFE. That's what the elite OLD MEDIA told us about Bill Clinton and his intern.

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

Whenever I see the term "Rockefeller Republican", I recall old Nelson Rockefeller, whose ticker quit when he was in flagrante delicto with his secretary on a desk. It would seem that Miss Carey and her handler certainly qualify as "Rockefeller Republicans" in that sense.

[tcostell]

Despise the sin, not the sinner....