Two years ago, actor Ron Silver appeared "From the Left" as the guest co-host on Crossfire. Monday night, he spoke at the Republican National Convention.
Along with Susan Sarandon and other Hollywood activists, Silver founded the Creative Coalition after volunteering for Michael Dukakis's presidential run in 1988. He supported Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and Al Gore in 2000.
Silver supports a government-run health care system, federal funding for the arts, and abortion. "As Americans," Silver believes, "our respect for people's private lives, where folks make their most profound and intimate decisions, must never be superceded by the moralists in government."
Looking at the Republican platform, Ron Silver appears to have stepped into the wrong convention hall, 200 miles southwest and one month late from the gathering he should have addressed. Looking at how the Republicans have governed the last four years, one understands why the liberal Hollywood activist felt so comfortable addressing the 2004 GOP convention.
The Republican Party's big tent is large enough for a longtime liberal activist. Is there still room for small-government libertarians, Catholic conservatives, and right-wing Constitutionalists?
HE's right on the moralist point.
I am not sure that there is room for them now. Most GOP conservatives I know maintain that the strategy is to be active at the nominating level (didn't work to well in Illinois and Pennsylvania though did it?). But I think that conservatives need to go beyond the two-party's and find a way to mobilize a real third party threat. Not to say a 3rd party could ever replace either major party at this point but the goal would be a real 5 or more percent of the vote. I think numbers like that could not go unignored by the major parties and could effect the balance of power in the GOP. I am not sure though.
Why not start up the DixieCrats again?
http://www.peroutka2004.com/
Silver was there because he is an Israeli-firster. Fits right in with the rest of the neocons.
DB, why do you have to be so mean? It's fun to debate, why do you have to personally attack people?
So, what...we're all a bunch of racists and KKK members now?
geesh
I live in NYC and have been running into the protesters and so I made the point in another post's comments section that the most common names the delegates have been called are "fascists" and "white supremacists."
DB is just sophisticated (and sophistical) enough to make this same pathetic and, frankly, odd charge with a bit of historical humor.
I actually found the reference to the Dixiecrats funny and a much more appealing and witty way to be a jerk than leftists usually seem to have the imagination to be capable of.
Actually, I was commenting on his insinuation that Conservatives would support Peroutka, at least partly, because he's racist.
You're right of course, the dixiecrats comment was pretty cool.
