Ben Affleck's Next Role: Senator?

CBS ^

[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.'"

[shekkian]

The movie The Sum of All Fears was absolutely NOT a Tom Clancy movie.

It just had a nuclear bomb and a guy named Jack Ryan, and that was it.

[johnb838]

Sentaor Bennifer? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[somerville]

You are absolutely right about Affleck not voting in 2000.
In fact Smoking Gun did a check of his voting records in 2003 and found that he had voted only once in ten years.What a fool.

Here's the link:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/affleck_doc.html

[mabelkitty]

Is he going to take on Kerry, Boxer, Feinstein, or is he going to carpet-bag?
His next role is closeted homosexual who gets married out of convenience.

[Millee]

Co-staring Tom Cruise??

[BIRDS]

Ben Afflek's career list:

-- make a hideous movie about asses;

-- be the biggest, baddest, uglies troll on the internet but deny I am rance;

-- put an end to rance because everyone figured it out at hello;

-- dump Chelsey Clinton;

-- dump the blond babe;

-- buy the blond babe a big ring (she's still dumped) (she's right, I don't deserve her -- she doesn't have a big enough ass);

-- do the Green Light thing but only if Disney pays for the cool chalet at Sundance;

-- start the internet troll thing again but don't tell anyone, particularly gurlz who I troll;

-- dump J-Ho;

-- give the trolling "writing project" to whoever has the biggest ass (oops, Matt took it over, plus, he's got a great ass);

-- run for political office if I can find a big ass place in Virginia;

-- call Chelsey, get green time with her dad (check out HIS ass).

[johnb838]

For one thing I don't go to those movies either. For another, I can't imagine Bennifer playing Yack Ryan. And C, Yack Ryan morphs into a Senator, then Vice President, and then President when terrorists fly a fully loaded plane into the capitol during the State of the Union address.

And yes, this book came out at least 6 years before 9-11, so Condi's pleas that "no one imagined that terrorists would fly planes into buildings" rang a bit hollow.

[infidel29]

"They need someone who is smart and photogenic and has a lot of his own money to subsidize a campaign."

It looks like the Dems dropped having a clue as a prerequisite for public office.

[Corporate Law]

Matt got himself a beard too.

[Corin Stormhands]

John Warner was once married to Elizabeth Taylor.

I believe you just proved his point.

[Sprite518]

Oh now this will be fun... Did Ben even graduate from High-School?

[Arpege92]

Go Ben Go! The left needs another stuck on stupid candidate.

[Sprite518]

I love it I hope the libs are dumb enough to use him...

[Arpege92]

ROTFLMAO

[sharktrager]

He remembers to vote...he just doesn't realize you have to vote in your own state.

[Bahbah]

I believe you just proved his point.

LOL. Just as I meant to do.

[Logical me]

Dang I love this "STUCK ON STUPID"!!!!!!!!!

[OpusatFR]

He'll find that Virginians didn't fall all over themselves of Ollie either.

We aren't stupid and can't be bought. (Most of the time!)

[synbad600]

He should take a practice run on Geena Davis' show to see how Washington really is.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Will Cartman's hand (J-LO) be joining him in VA?