# which hollywood star would you elect president? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 18, 2005, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510 "2005-08-18T01:07:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/61 "2005-08-21T04:07:40Z")
Crispin Glover. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/62 "2005-08-23T20:26:16Z")
Harrison Ford did so well as President in “Air Force One,” I’d consider him for the actual job. I understand he’s center-left in his politics - yes? ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/63 "2005-08-23T20:50:43Z")
Danny Devito. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/64 "2005-08-23T21:05:42Z")
> [@Sarah Woodruff](#): > > Steve Buscemi for Vice-President … especially Steve who was a furniture removalist and fireman And immediately after 9/11 he went back to New York to volunteer his services. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/65 "2005-08-23T21:54:55Z")
Eastwood. Imagine as he calls up the leader of North Korea … > [@President Eastwood](#): > > I know what you’re thinking, Kim. You’re thinking that the U.S. has too many troops occuppied in Iraq to bother you. And to tell you the truth, I’m not sure myself in all this excitement. But this being the United States of America, the most powerful nation in the world and will blow your nation clean off the planet, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ > > Well, do ya? > > Punk? ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/66 "2005-08-24T00:18:37Z")
Another good choice would be Gary Sinise. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/67 "2005-08-24T00:41:00Z")
No votes for President Tom Cruise and first lady Katie Holmes? ::jumps up and down on Oval Office sofa:: “I LOVE THIS JOB!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/68 "2005-08-24T00:53:35Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > Another good choice would be Gary Sinise. Hey, why not? He’s been both Harry Truman and George Wallace, so I think he’d appeal to both the left and right. And his service record as Lt. Dan is beyond question. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/69 "2005-08-24T02:20:10Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > Not sure if it counts, but at times I wonder if Dennis Haysbert would be as good a president in real life as on TV. > > Then I realize if he were, he’d never get elected… Dude, I was just about to say that. Hail to Palmer, baby! 😉 My vote would personally be for Patrick Stewart. With the combined powers of Picard and Professor X, the U.S.'d be unstoppable! (Unfortunately, I think he’s British, which kind of rules him out. _woeful sigh_ My vote goes to Bruce Campbell or Jon Stewart, then.) ---
**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:** [August 24, 2005, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/70 "2005-08-24T14:36:23Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Dude, I was just about to say that. Hail to [President David] Palmer, baby! 😉 Hmm. I dunno. Not to hijack the thread to a discussion of “24,” but it seemed like he rarely knew what was going on, couldn’t control his evil, scheming First Lady at all (granted, they were separated at the time) and was temporarily deposed by his Cabinet under the 25th Amendment when they thought he was wussing out and wouldn’t bomb the bad guys. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/71 "2005-08-24T16:10:06Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > Another good choice would be Gary Sinise. Gary Sinise is a remarkable guy in real life. He cofounded a charity that so far has shipped 150 tons of school supplies to Iraq to help restock schools there. He is also a big supporter of the troops themselves. Check the USO tour schedule sometime, and see how often the Lt. Dan Band plays overseas. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/72 "2005-08-24T16:22:51Z")
> [@Beware of Doug](#): > > And his service record as Lt. Dan is beyond question. Max Cleland thought the same thing… ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/73 "2005-08-24T17:05:11Z")
> [@Mr. Moto](#): > > Gary Sinise is a remarkable guy in real life. > > He cofounded a charity that so far has shipped 150 tons of school supplies to Iraq to help restock schools there. He is also a big supporter of the troops themselves. Check the USO tour schedule sometime, and see how often the Lt. Dan Band plays overseas. Yeah, I’d heard about that…that’s why I mentioned him. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/74 "2005-08-24T17:16:44Z")
Yeah, but Gen. Jimmy Stewart’s service record was REAL. A bit conservative for my tastes but an honorable man. ---
**Author:** ![Balle\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@Balle\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balle_M)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/75 "2005-08-24T17:58:16Z")
> [@AlbertRose](#): > > Edward James Olmos. He’d garner the Hispanic vote, not to mention the AP Calculus vote, _Miami Vice_ vote, _Battlestar Galactica_ vote, etc. And, he’s a hell of a good guy with some cojones. With Katee Sackhoff as VP. She’d be the best Vice-President in the fleet. Failing that, how about Wayland Flowers and Madame? Then we could have an _actual_ puppet government. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/76 "2005-08-24T18:20:23Z")
> [@Balle\_M](#): > > … how about Wayland Flowers and Madame? > > Then we could have an _actual_ puppet government. Well, if we’re going to go that route, I’d prefer a Yoda/Kermit ticket so we could have an actual **m** uppet government. As the Green Party’s candidates, of course. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/77 "2005-08-25T01:35:46Z")
Martin Sheen, of course. ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/78 "2005-08-25T02:28:39Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I’d go with that, just to see the reaction from this wacko. His head would explode. I remember seeing this nut job’s van driving around Bangor Maine. It was all decked out with copies of his “evidence” and bif letters on the side “STEPHEN KING KILLED JOHN LENNON” ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/79 "2005-08-27T02:12:14Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I’d go with that, just to see the reaction from this wacko. His head would explode. Why did I know, even before clicking, that his bio would be one long breathless screed without any line breaks, and that his mailing address would be “General Delivery”? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/80 "2005-08-27T02:16:46Z")
He isn’t exactly a star, and he isn’t exactly Hollywood, but I’ve always respected Dick Cavett. Even though I’m sure he’s a flaming liberal, I could consider voting for him for public office. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510.md?page=5)