In On the Political Act [Hollywood actor Ron Silver bashing Dems and UN in NYT Sunday magazine]

The NY Times Sunday Magazine ^ | Dec. 4, 2005 | DEBORAH SOLOMON

[summer]

Ron Silver

...Indeed, you're a former liberal Democrat who became a Bush convert only recently. What do you have against the Democrats?

The Democratic Party is becoming the tool of an extreme domestic leftist insurgency led by the Michael Moores and the Cindy Sheehans and other neoreactionary, neoisolationist Americans.

...[my] new documentary, "Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60," which portrays the U.N. as the height of incompetence. If you and I put a flag outside our door and we called ourselves a country, we would have a seat at the table.

Is that some sort of cheap shot at third-world countries?

I think that the countries that are democracies need to form a caucus and a coalition to make sure it is not controlled by blocs of authoritarian regimes that are permanently hostile to the United States.

One reason they are hostile is that they feel the Bush administration has marginalized the United Nations.

The United Nations marginalized itself...

[kajingawd]

Somehow, we must get to the point where our hearts will not let us dispose, for the sake of convenience, a human child. It is a perversion of a medical procedure. That's the truth.

i agree...but my point was that the core/base of the Republican party is not the abortion issue...and was jumped on by a biggot.

[stephenjohnbanker]

I think famous actors begin to believe their own BS.

[aligncare]

Yes, the issue that will not fade away.

The answer is not with the dems or pubbies, but in each and every heart, repeatedly reinforced by a culture of life.

[aligncare]

The Republicans must grapple with this issue, as do the dems. I think their position is politically untenable because Americans are pro life. For the Pubbies it's difficult to be just alittle bit pregnant, to use the salient analogy.

[aligncare]

You know the money and recognition must warp their souls. Many need an anchor. Humbling oneself is a good counterbalance to ego.

[kajingawd]

Its not the Republicans to wrestle with this issue...it's the american people...i know that most of us are pro-life, but that alone won't make people gravitate to one party. It's time to have a National referendum on the issue, and once and for all put it at rest. Can't have the courts decide on life or death or when to draw the line.

[aligncare]

This is a constitutional, as well as moral issue. But, since nearly half of politically engaged Americans are lead by a party that lacks that aspect of humanity, it is left to the GOP to get the issue back to the states where it is closer to the people, who will ultimately vote life.

The u.s. constitution should not take sides on this issue.

[stephenjohnbanker]

And they have much to be humble about.

[BruceysMom]

Yupper! hes a 170lbs Caucasian Ovcharka dog, and he's very discriminating!

[aligncare]

"A modest little person, with much to be modest about." - Winston Churchill

"Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason." - Winston Churchill

[aligncare]

I love a graceful taunt.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Churchill was a master. You have FReepmail.

[aligncare]

Imagine the political heat Mr. Churchill must have endured, during the darkest days of attacks on the British Island.

I see that tenacity in Mr. Bush. The Jihadist have chosen the wrong people to attack at a moment in time when the right president was in place. Whew!

[aligncare]

170 lbs. Yipper!

[stephenjohnbanker]

"Imagine the political heat Mr. Churchill must have endured, "

OH YEAH.

" see that tenacity in Mr. Bush"

Kerry would have brokered a deal with al queda : )

[radiohead]

he knows these Islamofacists would just as soon chop off his head as shake his hand, any body who doubts that, or forgets it, is a fool

You are spot on. Sadly, I'm surrounded by such fools. That a few of them are Jewish (as am I) and don't seem to get the hint about what Islamofacists would really do if they got control, is just beyond me.

[aligncare]

That the entire Jewish population of Greater New York City votes democrat is astounding to me.

[aligncare]

They need to get out more.

[Soul Seeker]

Ron Silver is a Liberal I have immense respect for.

Even when we disagree, he makes me think.

If he, Lieberman, Zell Miller, Ed Koch, and Christopher Hitchens controlled the different branches of the Party the Republican Party wouldn't have time to 'find itself' after their misteps this year. They'd be toast.

Instead we have Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan, Reid, Daschle, Pelosi, Schumer..etc...is it any wonder the Dems are the minority party? The men/women of principles, courage, and intelligence are the ones the Party has thrown overboard.

Silver on Bush---I see him once a year when I go down to Washington for the Kennedy Center honors. We kibbitz. I don't know if he calls it kibbitzing, but I call it kibbitzing. He is really a likable guy. At one point he said: "You're a good man, Ronnie. It is nice to see you." And I was kidding around, so I said, "Mr. President, only my mother calls me Ronnie." And he looks me in the eye and says, "You're a good man, Ronnie."---

LOL!

[Soul Seeker]

What a cheery post.

For the record, to my knowledge, Silver has no intention of becoming a Republican.

Why this must become about that, or abortion, I do not know. Should leave it as an example of a Liberal that gets it on the WOT and has the courage to say so in Hollywood.