James Garner was a lifelong Democrat

[JGalt]

I never knew that. I just watched a 1990 Hallmark Hall of Fame television film with my wife. "Decoration Day," starring James Garner and Laurence Fishburne, was about a black WW2 veteran who refuses to accept a Congressional Medal of Honor. I've always liked the roles Garner played, but his personal life was nothing like you would imagine. Garner was a lifelong Democrat who was once quoted as saying Ronald Reagan "never had an original thought and that we had to tell him what to say. That’s no way to run a union, let along a state or a country.”

In New Memoir, James Garner Slams Reagan, Other Actors Who Run for Office


Democrats certainly were a different species back in the day, weren't they?

 

[BackAgain]

I was a fan of Jim.

Back in the day, stars didn’t feel compelled to share their political views. They relied on their talent.

Somebody should advise Ms. Zegler.

 

[1srelluc]

Meh, back then the dems were not near as crazy as they are now.

Looking at Texas today you would have never thought that they were the last of the Solid South states to go gop in the late 70s.

The dems went with crazy.

 

[Moonglow]

I never knew that. I just watched a 1990 Hallmark Hall of Fame television film with my wife. "Decoration Day," starring James Garner and Laurence Fishburne, was about a black WW2 veteran who refuses to accept a Congressional Medal of Honor. I've always liked the roles Garner played, but his personal life was nothing like you would imagine. Garner was a lifelong Democrat who was once quoted as saying Ronald Reagan "never had an original thought and that we had to tell him what to say. That’s no way to run a union, let along a state or a country.”

In New Memoir, James Garner Slams Reagan, Other Actors Who Run for Office


Democrats certainly were a different species back in the day, weren't they?

Depends which kind of Democrat.

 

[Moonglow]

I used to run into Jim going to an OU football game.
He was born in Norman, and I was born in OKC, I attended OU and was in the National Guard in Norman when I lived there in the early eighties.

 

[Moonglow]

Many Democrats in Oklahoma were Dixiecrats, rednecks and KKK, just as Texass was.

 

[Votto]

I never knew that. I just watched a 1990 Hallmark Hall of Fame television film with my wife. "Decoration Day," starring James Garner and Laurence Fishburne, was about a black WW2 veteran who refuses to accept a Congressional Medal of Honor. I've always liked the roles Garner played, but his personal life was nothing like you would imagine. Garner was a lifelong Democrat who was once quoted as saying Ronald Reagan "never had an original thought and that we had to tell him what to say. That’s no way to run a union, let along a state or a country.”

In New Memoir, James Garner Slams Reagan, Other Actors Who Run for Office


Democrats certainly were a different species back in the day, weren't they?

Trump and Musk were democrats too

 

[DGS49]

There was a time when some Democrats were rational people.

Long time ago.

 

[BackAgain]

Trump and Musk were democrats too

But they got better. Maybe it was ivermectin? .