Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.
How about Jack Pallance or Lee Marvin? If for no other reason because we are living in some very brutal and violent times. I wonder how either one of these guys would have spoken and acted after Sept 11, 2001.
“I just disemboweled Osama Bin Laden … with my teeth … Believe It Or Not”
How about James Earl Jones for White House Press Secretary? THE voice of authority. “Sam Donaldson - ask that question again, and it will be your last.”
And not to neglect the female gender, how about Teresa Russell as Secretary of State? (Remember her in “The Black Widow”?)
Ranchoth - you’re a Teddy Roosevelt fan? All right !!! I think he was our best president. Man, he did it all.
I smell a Chappelle show skit. Oh, wait… 
Bruce Dickenson for prez. Believe in the power of the cowbell.
Ron Jeremy
You guys saying Bill Maher, are you serious? The guy comes across to me as this close to batshit crazy in addition to being a total pissant, regardless of whatever political views he has.
John Wayne.
Count me in on the Teddy R. for life and bring him back to life platform, but Op asked for Hollywood Star and I want to provide a living one:
I’ll go for old fashion moderate republican and very smart.
Ben Stein
Barely a star but has some political experience.
Keeps up to date of foreign affairs and would maybe bring the country back towards the center.
Michael Moore, Marilyn Manson, or…
The no-brainer choice…
Stephen King!!
He was a speechwriter (for Nixon and Ford, I might add), not exactly a politician. 
He’s a smart man, but I don’t think a Nixon loyalist is the guy we need these days.
Umm… I mean, the most obvious first choice, of course!
Seconded.
Well, while Nixon was a horrible, nearly evil, definitely nasty man, I actually think he was a better President then either Bush Sr. or Jr. and more effective then Carter.
Nixon was a toad, he was a McCarthy supported and got elected despite this.
He was good at foreign policy, actually got us out of that damn war that he did not start. Allow many environmental laws to go in.
I did not say he was a politician, just had some political experience, but actually he did run for a local election as a Dem, before going to work in Whitehouse. This was while he was a poverty lawyer. I saw a Biography on him last year.
Nixon also helped establish relations with Red China, and canceled U.S. bioweapon development.
But, again, this is about Stein, not Nixon. (Though Stein, according to Wikipedia, is a pro-lifer, which is a notch against any politician in my book. )
With the exception of Eastwood, I don’t think there’s been a serious post yet, or am I just clueless (probably both).
I like Tom Hanks. He’s someone we could trust, would back environmental causes without being too radical, could probably communicate well with foreign leaders.
None.
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…
Angelina Jolie, but I might have to wait another five years if I’ve got my sums and my constitution right. Anyway, by then I’ll be even more randy and she’ll still be smokin’ like a Chinese peasant. And by then hopefully she’ll have dumped Pitt and be back in her Anglophilic phase.
Morgan Freeman or Sidney Poitier.
I like the idea of Samuel L. Jackson.
Especially in his black-suited big afro Pulp Fiction look…Do I look like a Bitch?
I’m gonna need to ask what you mean by this. I’m intrigued.
I’d be happier with Sam as director of some insidously powerful covert security agency with superhuman operatives and a badass HQ off New York Harbor.
We need a brother who’s urbane and badass. Denzel, baby!