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The conservative Robert Downey Jr.
The American Conservative ^ | APRIL 23, 2012 | Rod Dreher

Posted on 04/23/2012 6:40:58 PM PDT by RobinMasters

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To: TomServo

I will watch *anything* he’s in.

[Even Iron Man]

;]


21 posted on 04/23/2012 7:14:34 PM PDT by Salamander (Hey blood brother, you're one of our own. You're as sharp as a razor and as hard as a stone.)
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To: TomServo

It is really a good movie. I think I remember a part in the movie where he’s dining with Nazis....and a woman says something about the disabled being a ‘drain on the system’. That fits libs to a capital “T”.


22 posted on 04/23/2012 7:15:27 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (A MUST WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KeOLurcQaqI)
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To: RobinMasters

I KNEW there was a reason I was pulling for this guy to get his act together.

Welcome home Robert Downey, Jr.


23 posted on 04/23/2012 7:33:31 PM PDT by moovova
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To: RobinMasters

One heck of a great actor. Let’s hope he can persuade some of the gullible, ignorant liberals in Hollywood with his non-conventional, conservative perspective.


24 posted on 04/23/2012 7:41:56 PM PDT by Bullish
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To: RobinMasters
There is a line in IRON MAN 2 that you have to pay attention to hear, but it's in there...it's when he's going back and forth with Pepper (Gwyneth Paltrow) Potts about giving his money away, and he says, very clearly:

"I don't care about the liberal agenda."

Beautiful. :)

25 posted on 04/23/2012 7:42:46 PM PDT by TheBigB (Hippie liberal chick: "What do I do about birth control?" Me: "Just use your personality.")
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To: RobinMasters

What he saw in jail scared him. Evil is scary even to brave men.


26 posted on 04/23/2012 7:43:48 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (.)
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To: Chgogal

“Chaplin would have had a field day with the Rahm, Axelrod, Michelle and Obama characters.”

Doubtful he would have gone after them. Chaplin was on the Left.


27 posted on 04/23/2012 7:45:10 PM PDT by Pelham (Marco Rubio, la raza trojan horse.)
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To: jwalsh07

Loved Chaplin, even though I hated RD Jr. at the time. Seems he has his mind right, finally.


28 posted on 04/23/2012 7:47:53 PM PDT by boop (I hate hippies and dopeheads. Just hate them. ...Ernest Borgnine)
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To: MamaTexan
An exceptional actor making great movies that I don't have to boycott...it's the entertainment trifecta! Hooray!

You said it, Mama!

(I feel old, too...I also remember Downey, Jr. before he was a bad boy ;)

29 posted on 04/23/2012 7:49:33 PM PDT by Jane Long (Soli Deo Gloria!)
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To: Pelham

I read Chaplin moved rightward by the ‘60s and was disparaging of the “hippie” movement.


30 posted on 04/23/2012 7:57:51 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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To: windcliff; stylecouncilor

I was pretty sure after Ironman.


31 posted on 04/23/2012 8:12:34 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: RobinMasters

I think Richard Pryor after making a movie at the AZ state pen said; “I talked to ‘em and - thank God we got penitentiaries.”


32 posted on 04/23/2012 8:44:39 PM PDT by Sea Parrot (Nations are only truly great when it's people are struggling against all odds, growing and expanding)
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To: Perdogg

Well he would’ve been about 19 or 20 when Regan took office so perhaps he was just too your to know what he thought?


33 posted on 04/23/2012 8:47:45 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: chris_bdba

Please repost that and clean it up. Lazy is not a virtue.


34 posted on 04/23/2012 8:52:00 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: RobinMasters

very easy on the eyes!


35 posted on 04/23/2012 8:52:53 PM PDT by Scotswife
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To: MattinNJ

And the scene where he appears before congress....love it.


36 posted on 04/23/2012 8:53:53 PM PDT by Scotswife
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To: truth_seeker

The Lord put him on my heart when he was having rough time with drugs. We started praying for him to be blessed and be delivered from drugs and come to know Jesus . I was so glad when he appeared to beat the drugs, what a sweet man. We still pray for him and I read he and his wife had a baby recently. I know God’s hand is on him. We prayed for Michael Douglas to be healed of cancer along with who knows how many Christians and his recovery was a miracle I believe. The Lord loves them all. (Drew Barrymore is on our prayer list too for ten years now)


37 posted on 04/23/2012 8:59:37 PM PDT by maranatha (Pray always for our military and their families)
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To: MediaMole

I was thinking that exact thing....Horowitz was also raised as a “red diaper” baby. Also noticed his charactor in Iron Man was rather like John Galt or Reardon.


38 posted on 04/23/2012 9:36:42 PM PDT by myheroesareDeadandRegistered
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To: Salamander

Have you seen “Less Than Zero”? That and “Sid and Nancy” (with Gary Oldman) should keep your nieces and nephews off of drugs...


39 posted on 04/23/2012 9:50:31 PM PDT by bt_dooftlook (Democrats - the party of Amnesty, Abortion, and Adolescence)
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To: bt_dooftlook

Amazing after LTZ that Downey fell into the trap of drugs.....but on another note, Jamie Gertz was a major hottie in that movie, and The Bangles did a good cover of Simon and Garfunkle’s “Hazy Shade of Winter.”


40 posted on 04/23/2012 9:57:32 PM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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