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Ben Affleck's Next Role: Senator?
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Posted on 09/28/2005 10:34:26 AM PDT by Millee

For Ben Affleck, the closest role he's had to senator so far was his part as CIA agent Jack Ryan in Tom Clancy's spy thriller "The Sum of all Fears."

But the Washington Post reports some want Affleck to say goodbye to the Hollywood Hills and hello to Capital Hill as the Democratic senator from Virginia.

Post columnist Amy Argetsinger says Virginia Democrats are desperately seeking a big name to take on rising Republican star Sen. George Allen next year.

"They need someone who is smart and photogenic and has a lot of his own money to subsidize a campaign. It just so happens that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner have been looking for real estate in Charlottesville," Argetsinger tells CBS affiliate WUSA.

University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato tells the Post the Affleck speculation is "spread pretty widely, at least in the political underground."

Democratic Gov. Mark Warner, who at one point had been mentioned as a potential Senate candidate but is now seen as a possible 2008 presidential contender, says he welcomes the Afflecks as new residents, but won't say much more.

"If he moves to Virginia and wants to get involved politically, he has a major name but that's not somebody I think there's an active recruitment going on with," says Warner.

Affleck has never held public office but was prominent at last year's Democratic National Convention. And he certainly wouldn't be the first actor to turn to politics. President Reagan and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have both made that same career move.

Affleck's spokesman Ken Sunshine says there's no truth to the rumors, but says Affleck "would be a superb candidate for public office in the future. Right now, he's very busy directing his first feature movie for Disney, 'Gone, Baby, Gone.'"


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2006; affleck; brainflatline; georgeallen
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I hope the debates will be televised nationwide. :-)
1 posted on 09/28/2005 10:34:30 AM PDT by Millee
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To: Millee

3D-Technicolor Hurl Alert!!


2 posted on 09/28/2005 10:35:18 AM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?)
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To: Millee

Oh PLEASE Run Ben. PLEASE please please please please!!!


3 posted on 09/28/2005 10:35:28 AM PDT by theDentist (The Dems have put all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
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To: Millee

I wonder if he could remember to go out and vote for himself on election day.


4 posted on 09/28/2005 10:36:10 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative (France is an example of retrograde chordate evolution.)
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To: Millee

Bring it on Ben BUMP!


5 posted on 09/28/2005 10:36:15 AM PDT by conservativecorner
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To: Millee
...smart, photogenic and has a lot of his own money...

Yeah, those are all qualifications as far as the typical RAT constituent is concerned.

6 posted on 09/28/2005 10:36:26 AM PDT by clintonh8r (If you don't support the mission, you DON'T "support the troops"!!!)
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To: Millee

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHA! What a DOOFUS!


7 posted on 09/28/2005 10:36:32 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Millee

Damaged goods, soiled by contact with the biggest hollywood mutt of them all, J-Ho.


8 posted on 09/28/2005 10:36:45 AM PDT by AbeKrieger (Islam is the virus that causes al-Qaeda.)
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To: Millee

What are the odds Virginia would elect a Cambridge transplant?


9 posted on 09/28/2005 10:37:03 AM PDT by Semper Paratus
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To: Millee

The prior career is firmly in the crapper, so on to the job hunting.


10 posted on 09/28/2005 10:37:04 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Millee
Bawhahahhaha...they lost me on SMART!! bawhahahha! The DNC folk are definitely "STUCK ON STUPID"!
11 posted on 09/28/2005 10:37:11 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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They need someone who is smart

And Affleck is smarter than the Democrats who live in Virginia? They've got some serious problems.

12 posted on 09/28/2005 10:37:26 AM PDT by siunevada
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To: Millee

Don't laugh--many people cast their vote based on name recognition, celebrity status, looks, etc.


13 posted on 09/28/2005 10:37:32 AM PDT by randog (What the....?!)
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To: Millee

14 posted on 09/28/2005 10:37:40 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative (France is an example of retrograde chordate evolution.)
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To: Millee

What was the caption FoxNews put under his picture last night? Something like, "Are you Kidding?". Hell, he can't be any worse than Pelosi and one hell of a lot better lookin!


15 posted on 09/28/2005 10:37:56 AM PDT by Danae ( Anál nathrach, orth' bháis's bethad, do chél dénmha)
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I wonder if he could remember to go out and vote for himself on election day.

I wonder if he ever got around to registering to vote.

16 posted on 09/28/2005 10:38:18 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: Millee

Anyone dumb enough to date J-Lo has NO business in the Senate.


17 posted on 09/28/2005 10:38:29 AM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: Millee

What state would he represent? State of Confusion?..........


18 posted on 09/28/2005 10:38:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (In life, you don't get what you deserve. You get what you settle for...........)
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To: Semper Paratus

Speaking for Virginia, we may have done some stupid stuff in the past, but electing Affleck as Senator is just going too far.


19 posted on 09/28/2005 10:39:19 AM PDT by stan the beaver (We will kill the ones who eat us, and eat the ones we kill!!)
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To: Millee
For Ben Affleck, the closest role he's had to senator so far was his part as CIA agent Jack Ryan in Tom Clancy's spy thriller "The Sum of all Fears."

What the hell does this sentence even mean?!

CIA agent. Senator. Practically the same thing.

20 posted on 09/28/2005 10:39:23 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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