# Are there any Republican celebrities? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 29, 2011, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-republican-celebrities/601238 "2011-10-29T23:15:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2011, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-republican-celebrities/601238/1 "2011-10-29T23:15:11Z")
As I was watching Dennis Miller do a stand-up special on HBO I noticed that he is very obviously republican, which is a change from pretty much everyone else in Hollywood. I’m assuming there are more than just him (or maybe just not as outspoken) but who are they? Anyone know? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2011, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-republican-celebrities/601238/2 "2011-10-29T23:17:31Z")
Adam Baldwin, he of _Chuck_ and _Firefly_ fame. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2011, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-republican-celebrities/601238/3 "2011-10-29T23:20:37Z")
Also, Stephen Baldwin (no relation), Kelsey Grammer, Clint Eastwood, Bruce Willis, Jon Voight (who was more liberal when younger) and Patricia Heaton (Ray Ramano’s TV wife). ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2011, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-republican-celebrities/601238/4 "2011-10-29T23:21:19Z")
Donald Trump Fred Thompson A got the impression a lot of the country singers are too (except the Dixi Chicks) ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2011, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-republican-celebrities/601238/5 "2011-10-29T23:22:35Z")
John Ratzenberger, Victoria Jackson, and of course Arnold Schwarzenegger. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2011, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-republican-celebrities/601238/6 "2011-10-29T23:35:29Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Clint Eastwood, Bruce Willis That might be news to them. Supporting individual candidates, some of whom are Republicans (and some who are not) does not make one a Republican. e.g. [Bruce Willis - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bruce_Willis#Political_views) [Clint Eastwood - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clint_Eastwood#Politics) ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2011, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-republican-celebrities/601238/7 "2011-10-29T23:38:32Z")
Tom Selleck? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2011, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-republican-celebrities/601238/8 "2011-10-29T23:43:56Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Also, Stephen Baldwin (no relation), Kelsey Grammer, Clint Eastwood, Bruce Willis, Jon Voight (who was more liberal when younger) and Patricia Heaton (Ray Ramano’s TV wife). No relation? Who is he, because the only one I can think of is the religious brother of the other Baldwins. Clint Eastwood is a Republican? Tom Sellek, yes. Lots of sports figures and Country singers are going to be Republican. ---
**Author:** ![Smitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Smitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smitty)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2011, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-republican-celebrities/601238/9 "2011-10-29T23:45:47Z")
I don’t know for certain, but I would imagine that Charlton Heston, as president of the NRA, probably was. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2011, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-republican-celebrities/601238/10 "2011-10-29T23:46:14Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > No relation? Who is he, because the only one I can think of is the religious brother of the other Baldwins. > > Clint Eastwood is a Republican? Stephen Baldwin is not related to the Adam Baldwin from Chuck and Firefly. Eastwood is or was a registered Republican. ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2011, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-republican-celebrities/601238/11 "2011-10-29T23:52:14Z")
Does Ronald Reagan count? Chuck Norris is pretty hard core conservative, even by Chuck Norris standards. Didn’t the guy from Growing Pains become an evangelist? ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2011, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-republican-celebrities/601238/12 "2011-10-29T23:53:24Z")
Ben Stein is mildly famous. ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2011, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-republican-celebrities/601238/13 "2011-10-29T23:54:48Z")
Is Mel Gibson or is he just crazy? ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2011, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-republican-celebrities/601238/14 "2011-10-30T00:06:43Z")
> [@emacknight](#): > > Does Ronald Reagan count? > > Chuck Norris is pretty hard core conservative, even by Chuck Norris standards. > > Didn’t the guy from Growing Pains become an evangelist? Kirk Cameron, and yes he is an Evangelical. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2011, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-republican-celebrities/601238/15 "2011-10-30T00:19:55Z")
Clint Eastwood was the mayor of Carmel, and ran as a Republican for this office. He’s a fiscal conservative and a social liberal, but his Republican-ness is hardly in doubt. Angie Harmon, John Malkovich and Jessica Simpson are Republicans. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2011, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-republican-celebrities/601238/16 "2011-10-30T00:37:23Z")
Roger Clemens of Major League Baseball (and steroid and lying) fame. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2011, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-republican-celebrities/601238/17 "2011-10-30T01:09:49Z")
Vince McMahon and his wife Linda–she ran for the Senate as a Republican. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2011, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-republican-celebrities/601238/18 "2011-10-30T02:42:42Z")
[Here’s a list](http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/57/listid/11770/Politics/Celebrity+Republicans.aspx); I was surprised by a few of these, like Sarah Michelle Gellar and Vincent Gallo. A few general trends: Actors who are over 60, actors who play martial artists or action heroes, country music stars and professional athletes tend to be Republicans. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2011, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-republican-celebrities/601238/19 "2011-10-30T02:45:49Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Stephen Baldwin is not related to the Adam Baldwin from Chuck and Firefly. Eastwood is or was a registered Republican. OK. But Stephen Baldwin, some relation to the Baldwin Brothers, is a raging Bible Thumper and Republican. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2011, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-republican-celebrities/601238/20 "2011-10-30T02:54:00Z")
Alice Cooper, Jessica Simpson, Tony Danza, Sylvestor Stallone, Mel Gibson, The Rock - and may I take this time to personally thank the Republican party for taking these people! We Democrats will gladly pay their party dues if you keep them. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-republican-celebrities/601238.md?page=2)