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Affleck: Clean-cut Romney GOP pick in ‘08 [and anti-Mormon rant]
The Boston Herald ^ | May 30, 2007 | Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa

Posted on 05/30/2007 7:55:48 AM PDT by TaxachusettsMan

“Gone, Baby, Gone” director Ben Affleck, who tried mightily - but unsuccessfully - to get Sen. John Kerry elected to the White House, said he expects ex-Gov. Mitt Romney to be the Republican nominee in 2008.

Chatting about the upcoming presidential race on the season finale of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the Cambridge homey said he thinks the GOP will end up with Romney because the ex-gov looks good, has nice hair - and the Republicans really don’t have anyone else.

“He says he doesn’t like abortion and he’s all clean-cut and he looks like a Ken doll,” said Affleck who was doing a rather amusing imitation of our ex-gov during the Romney rant.

“The Mormonism thing is really suspect,” he added, “but they’ll take it at this point. I mean, who else do they have? Crazy (Rudy) Giuliani and (John) McCain who’s completely insane? They don’t have any other options.”

Humorist P.J. O’Rourke, who was also on the panel, pointed out that Romney has a “fundamental problem” with conservatives: “He was governor of Massachusetts.”

Which really sent Ben off the deep end!

“ ‘I hate liberals,’ is what he’s basically now saying. He’s holding his nose saying, ‘I wish I didn’t even have to be in Massachusetts. I’m sorry I was there. I hated them when I was governor. I hated Massachusetts. I was governor because I wanted to kill them all!’ ”

Added Maher: “If he were a movie, he’d be ‘Say Anything.’ ”

Affleck, a lifelong Democrat who was identified as “actor/activist” on the show, also had some harsh words for his own party , launching an f-bomb-laden tirade against the pols who “caved in” on the president’s Iraq spending bill.

“These (bleeping) people,” he said. “This is the (bleeping) problem with that. Democrats live in fear of basically being called cowards,” he said.

Affleck surmised that the Demmies were afraid to demand timelines for troop withdrawal from Iraq in the spending bill because the president would slam them while they were away for the Memorial Day weekend.

“While they were on vacation they were afraid of being criticized,” he said. “So . . . they sacrificed their core political beliefs. And they wonder why people call them (bleeping) weak.”

Romney’s main mouth Eric Fehrnstrom, when asked to comment about the Affleck rant, told the Track in an e-mail: “I think the polite thing to say is no comment. We don’t spend a lot of time thinking about what Hollywood actors are saying about the presidential campaign.”

Unlike John Kerry - Ben’s last No. 1 presidential pick.

File Under: Ben Heard.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benaffleck; democrat; gop; kerry; mormon
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Can't act.

Can't direct.

Can't think.

Can bloviate.

Affleck + Maher + the Democrat Party = a match made in Hollywood.

Priceless.

1 posted on 05/30/2007 7:55:51 AM PDT by TaxachusettsMan
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To: TaxachusettsMan

.... whines the Hollywood glamor boy.


2 posted on 05/30/2007 7:59:00 AM PDT by SteveMcKing
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With enemies like Afflack and Maher........

I could consider voting for him.

3 posted on 05/30/2007 7:59:08 AM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: TaxachusettsMan

I used to like Ben in the Kevin Smith days. But now, I just call him Ben Assflack.


4 posted on 05/30/2007 7:59:10 AM PDT by lovecraft (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: TaxachusettsMan
“These (bleeping) people,” he said. “This is the (bleeping) problem with that. Democrats live in fear of basically being called cowards,” he said.

I'll say it again, with out profanity, much of Hollywood and the Liberal Left would be incapable of self-expression.

5 posted on 05/30/2007 8:00:04 AM PDT by Reaganesque (Romney 2008)
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Duplicate of Affleck: Clean-cut Romney GOP pick in ‘08

Search is your friend. :-)

6 posted on 05/30/2007 8:00:16 AM PDT by TChris (The Republican Party is merely the Democrat Party's "away" jersey - Vox Day)
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To: TaxachusettsMan

Himbo.


7 posted on 05/30/2007 8:00:28 AM PDT by atomicpossum (Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
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Just another hollywood type talking about something he knows nothing about.

I would advise him to stick with acting, but he’s not a good actor.


8 posted on 05/30/2007 8:00:53 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: lovecraft
I just call him Ben Assflack.

Ben, a flake.

9 posted on 05/30/2007 8:03:15 AM PDT by Rocko
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To: TaxachusettsMan

He’s no doubt trying to propagate the myth that the Republicans “have no one else” because the entire Hollyweird left is terrified of Fred Thompson.


10 posted on 05/30/2007 8:05:16 AM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Is human activity causing the warming trend on Mars?)
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Ben seems borderline retarded sometimes too.


11 posted on 05/30/2007 8:05:20 AM PDT by Armedanddangerous (Master of Sinanju (emeritus))
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To: TaxachusettsMan
"Neo-fascist skinheads hit the World Trade Center!"


12 posted on 05/30/2007 8:09:16 AM PDT by montag813 (q)
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They don’t have any other options.”

Oh, really, Ben? Who do you have, you nut case?! We will have FRED THOMPSON! You have HILLARY.

13 posted on 05/30/2007 8:10:18 AM PDT by kcvl
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he’s all clean-cut and he looks like a Ken doll

Look in the mirror, fleck. That's your bread and butter.

14 posted on 05/30/2007 8:13:46 AM PDT by siunevada (If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
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“These (bleeping) people,” he said. “This is the (bleeping) problem with that. Democrats live in fear of basically being called cowards,”

What most average Democrats, Liberals, and many republicans don't realize is this: That "caving in" thing was no such thing. The D's KNEW what would happen, they never, ever expected the bill to pass. This was all a bunch of posturing on BOTH sides, BOTH sides got out of it exactly what they wanted.

15 posted on 05/30/2007 8:14:48 AM PDT by Paradox (In the final analysis, its mostly a team sport, Principles cast off like yesterdays free agents.)
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"Romney’s main mouth Eric Fehrnstrom, when asked to comment about the Affleck rant, told the Track in an e-mail: “I think the polite thing to say is no comment. We don’t spend a lot of time thinking about what Hollywood actors are saying about the presidential campaign."

You gotta love that response from Team Romney. :-)

16 posted on 05/30/2007 8:15:48 AM PDT by Unmarked Package (<<<< Click to learn more about the conservative record and platform of Governor Mitt Romney)
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“While they were on vacation they were afraid of being criticized,” he said. “So . . . they sacrificed their core political beliefs. And they wonder why people call them (bleeping) weak."

I agree with Ben Affleck on this point.......

17 posted on 05/30/2007 8:17:28 AM PDT by D-Chivas
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To: TaxachusettsMan

P.J. O’Rourke was slumming it going on Bill Mahr.


18 posted on 05/30/2007 8:18:25 AM PDT by AU72
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To: TaxachusettsMan

Kinda funny, considering that the only reason Affleck has any career is because he actually does look like a “ken-doll”.


19 posted on 05/30/2007 8:22:52 AM PDT by jbwbubba
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If brains were dynamite Affleck couldn’t blow his nose.

Dumb as dirt.

20 posted on 05/30/2007 8:24:18 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Liberals, A terrorists best friend!)
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