Posted on 09/25/2006 5:31:15 AM PDT by ItMatters2Me
CHARLOTTESVILLE -- About 1,000 supporters of Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Jim Webb filled the Paramount Theater last night to hear readings by Webb and best-selling authors John Grisham and Stephen King. Webb is challenging Republican U.S. Sen. George Allen in the Nov. 7 election. Grisham, King and Webb each said he had been a Republican before switching parties. All three wore combat boots to honor Webb's son, Jimmy, a Marine lance corporal serving in Iraq. "How fitting that boots have become a symbol of this campaign," said Grisham, an Albemarle County resident. "On one side you have cowboy boots. A lot of these guys come from privileged backgrounds and to convince the public they are tough guys, they wear boots." "They are not real cowboys," Grisham said. "Willie Nelson said of our president, 'He ain't no cowboy, and he ain't from Texas.' The boots are part of a costume, part of an image. The trouble with political cowboys is they think they're tough, and to prove it they swagger around and they use macho language and they utter such wisdoms as 'Bring it on,' 'Mission accomplished' and here lately, 'Welcome to the real Virginia.'" His last reference was a paraphrase of Allen's remarks to S.R. Sidarth, a Webb volunteer with a camera, on Aug. 11. Sidarth, a University of Virginia student of Asian-Indian descent, joined musician Dave Matthews and other celebrities in the crowd. "Because they never saw the horror of combat, these cowboys are quick to decide that war is good and should be fought by the sons and daughters of others," Grisham said.
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Well, what I see is a bottom line here. King and Grisham both are purveyors of FICTION. They have just started verbalizing fiction instead of just writing it,they cannot be honest about who they really are. Nelson is not known for mounting horses........Bada Bing Bada Bang....
Everyone is forgetting that Stephen King's wife was one of the two or three original bank-rollers of the Emiley's List PAC for left wingers. She gave a huge sum to get this thing started at the end of the Reagan era.
I'm sure he was a typical pre-Reagan Northeastern Republican, IOW a liberal.
Same here. King never wrote a book where everyone didn't die at the end.
Anyone know if Dean Koontz is a conservative? He's a great writer and, after reading most of his books, I'd lay money on it.
"Anyone know if Dean Koontz is a conservative?"
Dean Koontz gets his digs in against collectivist idiocy every chance he gets, in every novel of his that I've ever read, and I've read most of them. I'd say he's a libertarian-leaning conservative, which means Republican, for all practical purposes.
I suspect that Stephen King and John Grishom were as much "republican" as Joe Wilson ever was.
Beyond their political persuasion, their books are HORRIBLE.
Grisham is an insult to Faulkner's Mississippi.
If one limits oneself to culture created only by those in political concord then there's too much left out. Boycotting is more of a whiny liberal thing to do. That said King and Grisham are really bad writers regardless of their politics.
I believe King's Mom was a Republican (IIRC he mentions such in his book "On Writing" something about she would not accept Welfare from the govt.)
But I doubt King ever had any conservative beliefs. He might have registered Republican to vote but he was never one at heart.
http://www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/Stephen_King.php
Stephen King switched to Democrat? Bull cookies.
He's always been a dem...
In addition to having a huge honking Kerry/Edwards sign in his front yard during the last election, there's also this:
These scumbags make me laugh.
It must be great to be a RAT? You can just make up nonsense about being a former Republican. King, in particular, has been a liberal since protesting the Vietnam War. And Grisham was in the Mississippi state legislature as a Democrat in the early 1980s. There is no evidence whatsoever that either of them were ever Republicans, but the media just parrots their lies.
Me too. I'm calling bullsh!t.
Have you ever seen the episode of "Third Rock", where each of the four characters are reading a different Grisham novel, and they suddenly look up, shrug, swap books with each other and continued to read? Hysterical, and even funnier because it's dead accurate.
truer words were spoken
m&s
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