# Stars on the right **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 7, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stars-on-the-right/436622 "2008-02-07T01:50:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stars-on-the-right/436622/61 "2008-02-08T17:06:11Z")
Jimmy Stewart was a conservative Republican and often argued politics with his liberal friend and former roommate, Henry Fonda. Shirley Temple Black was a GOP/Nixon loyalist, and had a distinguished diplomatic career. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stars-on-the-right/436622/62 "2008-02-08T18:10:52Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Shirley Temple Black was a GOP/Nixon loyalist, and had a distinguished diplomatic career. [/QUOTE] Very impressive for a six-year-old. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stars-on-the-right/436622/63 "2008-02-08T18:21:07Z")
According to JMS, both Bruce Boxleitner and Jerry Doyle are “somewhere to the far right of Attila the Hun.” ---
**Author:** ![Meltdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Meltdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meltdown)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stars-on-the-right/436622/64 "2008-02-08T18:26:24Z")
[QUOTE=Morgyn] According to JMS, both Bruce Boxleitner and Jerry Doyle are “somewhere to the far right of Attila the Hun.” [/QUOTE] Slight tangent – does anyone know why “Attila the Hun” is always brought up as a yardstick for measuring people on the extreme right? I know it’s in jest, but what is the right-wing / Attila the Hun connection? ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stars-on-the-right/436622/65 "2008-02-08T19:07:01Z")
Chuck Norris. 'nuf said. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stars-on-the-right/436622/66 "2008-02-08T19:58:38Z")
> [@](#): > > by **Meltdown** > Slight tangent – does anyone know why “Attila the Hun” is always brought up as a yardstick for measuring people on the extreme right? Leftists are peace-loving hippies. Attila was a war-monger. Therefore he must have been a Republican. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stars-on-the-right/436622/67 "2008-02-08T20:23:01Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Jimmy Stewart was a conservative Republican and often argued politics with his liberal friend and former roommate, Henry Fonda. Shirley Temple Black was a GOP/Nixon loyalist, and had a distinguished diplomatic career. [/QUOTE] Stewart was a conservative Republican but he had his limits. I remember him publicly criticizing his friend Ronald Reagan when he was president over his environmental policies and, in particular, his appointment of obnoxious anti-environmental crusader James Watt as Secretary of the Interior. Temple Black is pretty much a moderate conservative. I remember an interview she did where she said that while she was a Republican, she didn’t like the party’s lurch rightward on environmental and womens’ issues when Reagan and his ideological cronies came in. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stars-on-the-right/436622/68 "2008-02-08T20:36:01Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] This is debating. If I’m not allowed to express my opinion that Libertarianism is essentially a right-wing ideology, then you’re not allowed to express your opposing political opinion on the matter either. Fair’s fair. I’m not talking about which of us is “right”; I’m only pointing out what’s fair, as far as this thread goes. What you’re doing is shutting me up, then continuing the debate on your own, one sided, without any opportunity for response. Not cool. [/QUOTE] Nope not debating. What I am saying is there are many people, some of which are famous and have been mentioned in this thread, have very liberal views and consider themselves libertarians.( I am not one of them). That is fact. Not a debate. That is how some people feel. If you happen to feel that their own personal philosophy is wrong then start a thread about it. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stars-on-the-right/436622/69 "2008-02-08T20:38:32Z")
[QUOTE=Morgyn] According to JMS, both Bruce Boxleitner and Jerry Doyle are “somewhere to the far right of Attila the Hun.” [/QUOTE] Jerry Doyle used to be an actor but is now a conservative talk show host and has been for quite a few years. He is not on any station in my area (I think) but I believe I have heard him when he has sat in for other hosts. ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stars-on-the-right/436622/70 "2008-02-08T20:43:15Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] Nope not debating. What I am saying is there are many people, some of which are famous and have been mentioned in this thread, have very liberal views and consider themselves libertarians.( I am not one of them). That is fact. Not a debate. That is how some people feel. If you happen to feel that their own personal philosophy is wrong then start a thread about it. [/QUOTE] From [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian): > [@](#): > > In the United States, libertarianism is claimed to be the philosophy advocated by Thomas Jefferson and several of the Founding Fathers. Libertarianism is often being bundled with American conservatism, due to many conservatives wishing to retain the ideas of the Founders of the United States; however, many conservatives are uncomfortable with libertarianism. However, a few conservative Republicans, such as United States congressman Ron Paul, maintain viewpoints sympathetic to libertarian philosophy, as did Ronald Reagan who said he believed that “the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.” The term “libertarian” is used to describe adherents to libertarian principles, and not necessarily to members of Libertarian political parties, who are distinguished with a capital “L” - not all libertarians agree with the platform of any given Libertarian party. Libertarians who support limited government use the term “classical liberalism” almost interchangeably with the term “libertarianism.” > > **Polls indicate that 10 to 20 percent of voting-age Americans have libertarian views, with “libertarian” being understood as agreeing with conservatives on economic issues and with liberals on personal freedom.** > > Outside of the United States, where the term originated, however, libertarianism is often understood to refer to radical, leftist currents of anarchism. Thus, there arises a disparity between the usage of the term in the United States and elsewhere. bolding mine. So you are both right. Or left. Or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stars-on-the-right/436622/71 "2008-02-08T20:51:15Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Frank Sinatra was a Kennedy Democrat in the early 1960s, but twenty years later was very tight with the Reagans. [/QUOTE] I always wondered if that had to do with politics, or more with Hollywood connections and just being old friends. (And at the time, I thought it was an abuse of Presidential privelege to give Sinatra the Medal of Freedom. . . but now the bar has been set much, much lower.) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stars-on-the-right/436622/72 "2008-02-09T03:53:16Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin] I always wondered if that had to do with politics, or more with Hollywood connections and just being old friends. (And at the time, I thought it was an abuse of Presidential privelege to give Sinatra the Medal of Freedom. . . but now the bar has been set much, much lower.) [/QUOTE] Sinatra did anti-communist work for the US govenment back in the 1950s, along with other celebrities. They did commercials which were broadcast in Italy that said if the Italians voted for Communist candidates, Italian-Americans would stop sending money to their relatives back home. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stars-on-the-right/436622/73 "2008-02-09T07:05:51Z")
Gary Sinise was the first name to pop into my head and the Wiki page supports it. But I can’t remember what he did that made him my first thought when thinking about Republican actors. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stars-on-the-right/436622/74 "2008-02-09T12:32:45Z")
[QUOTE=Jophiel] Gary Sinise was the first name to pop into my head and the Wiki page supports it. But I can’t remember what he did that made him my first thought when thinking about Republican actors. [/QUOTE] Probably his efforts to help supply schools that we are rebuilding in Iraq. Getting out of the U.S. for a moment, haven’t Michael Caine, Sean Connery & the Spice Girls in their heyday been vocal Conservatives? IIRC, I think Caine was a personal friend of Maggie T. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stars-on-the-right/436622/75 "2008-02-09T20:53:39Z")
Not an actor, but certainly a star…pitcher Curt Schilling is a Bush supporter. ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stars-on-the-right/436622/76 "2008-02-10T03:51:34Z")
I read/saw/heard a rumor somewhere that Matthew McConaughey is a conservative. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stars-on-the-right/436622.md?page=3)