Cross-posted at Immizen.com with pictures.
Republicans are in dire needs of some Hollywood flash and magic, especially after the Clint Eastwood fiasco, and believe me, it was a fiasco:
Who had the worst week in Washington? Clint Eastwood.
Upstaged: Why everyone is talking Eastwood, not Romney:
"Clint Eastwood on the phone with Obama now: 'It all went according to plan, sir,'" Tweeted comedian Chris Rock, who has been an Obama supporter.
Even before Clint’s conversation with a chair, my sources had told me that the GOP had launched a secret initiative called “Hollywood Republicans” to recruit successful, younger and popular movie stars. I mean, yeah, Clint is an icon, but he is not young anymore and as my friend Carol wrote, he is kind of weird when he forgets his medication. And then there is Jon Voight, who nobody knows (he is Angelina’s dad, btw). And the Terminator, who has lost his shine since his shoddy affair with a maid became public. So, yeah, the GOP is in dire need of better Hollywood representation.
The first task of the “Hollywood Republicans” team was to figure out why these movie stars who make millions of Dollars are so willing to share their money with others.
Why don’t movie stars get upset about paying taxes to help people on welfare, children of low income families, union workers, the homeless, the uninsured, the sick, the elderly?
This befuddling fact contradicts Republicans core beliefs, but it needed to be understood to figure how to persuade Hollywood stars to join the GOP.
One Republican source said they figured there are so few successful Hollywood actors who align with the GOP, because actors don’t have to work for their money, (thus they don’t value it as much and don’t mind giving it away).
While there may be some truth to that (acting being easier than coal mining), another more powerful reason why actors will not join the GOP is that, by the nature of their craft, they have to learn to understand the mind, behavior and emotions of other people and the society and environment that influences these behaviors. This experience makes actors more empathetic towards other people, a feeling that is lacking in hard core Republicans.
I learned that the “Hollywood Republicans” project was dismantled after those findings because they could not find any strategy to counteract the actors’ lack of motivation to join the GOP. They would not publish their findings but I was told they concluded that the few actors that stray towards the GOP have some rare chemical imbalance that is not by “choice” but rather a “genetic” trait (or "defect" in this case).