Harrison Ford for governor of California!

[w4rma]

btw, I'm not kidding one bit. I think he'd make a great governor. :)

[Dr Fate]

1. George Clooney? Martin Sheen? Alec Baldwin? Robert Redford?

Warren Beaty? Tim Robbins? Kevin Costner?

I am being dead serious- the DNC needs to start doing a better job at utilizing hollywood progressives...I cannot believe the GOP beat us to the punch on this tactic...

...this crap works- if you are a celeb, you WILL get the positive coverage...

[w4rma]

2. I totally agree. These guys are all brilliant and extremely likable people

We seriously gotta lure some of them into running for office. :hi:

[Webster Green]

8. Rob Reiner...

The Meathead vs The Terminator

[SammyWinstonJack]

29. Is Kevin Costner a Liberal?

I think somewhere I read he wasn't. Thought I read he was a Bush* supporter. :shrug:

[Clete]

34. He's another groper.

Even if he were a Democrat, I wouldn't want him as Governor.

[Jason600]

35. come on!

I wouldn't vote for any of these people...................well, ok, I'd vote for Ford in a heartbeat. the thing is, so would have of the GOP

[Clete]

3. I have always hated this idea,

but apparently our front man has to have movie star qualities, so why not a movie star? Bring them on. We can keep the ones who actually do the work in the back room. Sounds like a plan to me.

[Clete]

4. Oh,by the way Harrison Ford could

park his shoes under my bed anytime if I weren't married and he wasn't married. I would love to see him as Governor. :-)

[Terwilliger]

6. I thought he was dating Calista Flockhart

Hey...he could fly helicopters...he's more qualified than Arnie already!

[Clete]

7. Oh I can't compete can I?

)-:

[Terwilliger]

9. I don't know

Calista looks ok, but she's not all that.

[Clete]

11. Harrison is also a better airplane pilot.

I don't know if he's still part of the rescue team up in Wyoming or if he still has his ranch there. I did see him in Jackson one time when we were visiting five years ago. Soooo cute. :-) Oh yes I think he is closer to my age than Calista.

[blondeatlast]

21. He isn't married anymore. Apparently, though, he likes 'em skimpy; he's

seriously dating Calista Flockhart. Like the governor idea, but her First Lady qualities leave much to be desired . . .

I wouldn't get tired of him on the news thought! :evilgrin:

[KittyWampus]

5. Harrison Could Found The "Bull Whip" Party

http://www.danielhsia.com/hfprez/pressroom.htm Here's a website dedicated to Harrison Ford For President. There's a couple of them.


PALO ALTO -- In a press conference early yesterday, the Harrison Ford for President campaign unveiled its new "Whips For Guns" proposal, the first policy initiative to come from the frontrunner Action Party candidate.

In recent weeks, all major players in the race for the White House have begun making official announcements on issues that they intend to campaign on during the campaign. Bradley, a Democrat, is seeking to make national health care one of his central issues while Bush, a Republican, has made education reform one of his platforms. Yesterday's announcement from the Ford campaign marks the first initiative from a presidential candidate to bring gun control to the forefront of this presidential race.

The comprehensive Ford proposal would implement a government program that would seek to replace all firearms within the United States with bullwhips. In the opinion of the Ford campaign, bullwhips, while dangerous, are "far less deadly than firearms while being
equally useful."

"Violent acts committed with firearms have become all too rampant within the past few years of our nation's history," said the Ford campaign. "With this plan, we hope to eliminate the possibility of shootings that occur in schools, on our freeways, as well as in our nation's homes."

The proposal intends to make the nation's police the first to give up their firearms in exchange for the more versatile, government issued bullwhip. The purpose of this would be to demonstrate the efficacy of the whip on the job, so that gun-owning individuals
would be more willing to give up their firearms in the second stage of the plan.

When questioned by one reporter how a police officer wielding a bullwhip would be able to subdue a suspect with a handgun, Ford invited the reporter up onto the stage. Ford then gave the reporter an unloaded pistol and instructed him to point it at Ford. The
reporter did so, but in the blink of an eye, Ford had used the bullwhip clipped to his belt to knock the pistol out of the reporter's hand in a single movement, ending with a satisfying "crack".

"Additionally," Ford said, nonchalantly re-curling the whip, "these bullwhips can be used by the police to knock other weapons out of a suspect's hands, to swing themselves over an unmanageable crevase, or even to drag themselves behind a suspect's vehicle while
involved in a high-speed pursuit."

Another advantage of the plan, said the Ford campaign, is that a bullwhip is much more difficult to conceal than a firearm, has a
more limited range, and can usually only be used on one target at a time. Over the course of five years, all gun-owners would
be required to trade their firearms in for a bullwhip, to be held in a little clip that hangs casually off of the bearer's hip.

However, the plan includes one provision which would allow a police officer, if exhausted and confronted with a sword-wielding villain, to just pull out his gun and shoot the guy instead of fighting him with the whip.

[JackSwift]

10. Uma Thurman

I just got back from Kill Bill (Vol. 1) and she can kick ass for Dems anytime.

[knight_of_the_star]

12. He lives in Montana though

We have to get him to move out here and run! Not only is he a damn good actor, he actually has a brain in there!

[Clete]

13. Did he move to Montana?

He was in the western corner of Wyoming last I knew.

[0rganism]

15. Even so, he's probably still got a permanent residence in California

Look, if Dick Cheney was able to pass himself off as a Wyoming resident during the 2000 election, there ought to be NO PROBLEM with Mr. Ford running from Montana, Wyoming, or Austria.

[blondeatlast]

22. Hey, Montana can use the help--such an incredibly beautiful place.

I used to live in the Boulder Valley; incredible views all around.

[Clete]

23. I love the Western part of Montana

along the Clark Fork River following the road in the Cabinet Gorge, just beautiful.

[0rganism]

14. And he's a real Democrat!

From opensecrets.org, his contributions seem okay to me
FORD, HARRISON LOS ANGELES,CA 90049 ACTOR 9/29/2000 $10,000 Democratic National Cmte

FORD, HARRISON MR SANTA MONICA,CA 90405 SELF-EMPLOYED/ACTOR 11/8/1999 $1,000 Bradley, Bill

FORD, HARRISON MR SANTA MONICA,CA 90405 ACTOR 11/15/1999 $1,000 Gore, Al

FORD, HARRISON MR SANTA MONICA,CA 90405 SELF/ACTOR 11/9/1999 $1,000 McCain, John

^^ looks like he was worried enough about shrub to donate to McCain during the primaries. Yup, he's the guy.

Getting California back on track is going to be a lot like piloting the Millenium Falcon through an asteroid field. He can claim job experience.

[blondeatlast]

24. Bill Bradley?! Harrison, you da man!

I wish Bill were running again. Ah, well.

[wtmusic]

16. Sheen is smarter than Ahnold

Wait...almost anyone's smarter than Ahnold!

[0rganism]

19. Does Sheen's Catholicism hurt him as a candidate?

Ahnold's groping record probably helped his candidacy.

[Clete]

20. Arnold is also a Catholic and it didn't seem to make

any difference.

[nbsmom]

27. A funny thing about the CA Recall

Davis - Catholic
Bustamante - Catholic
Ahnuld - Catholic
McClintock -????

Camejo - ???

Riordan (didn't run, but would have if Ahnuld hadn't) - Catholic

What are the odds?

[Clete]

28. Camejo as a Mexican American most likely is a Catholic too.

eom

[T Bone]

17. Well he would know how to get Air Force 1 back

from terrorists if he had to, because he already made that movie about it and he did quite well kicking terrorist ass...

[Clete]

18. He's a much better action actor than Arnold isn't he?

eom

[Buns_of_Fire]

25. Get... Off... My... PLANE!

Damn straight! He looks and acts more like a President when he's playing a make-believe President then our current make-believe pResident does when he's trying to look and act like a REAL President! (Did that make sense?)

[spooky3]

26. Seriously, the jobs are so different

As a superstar actor, you have people happy to serve your every whim. In California politics in particular, you have to work with many people you may find distasteful and compromise because they hold power. You can't just appeal to parts of the public, and you can't tell voters behaving badly to **** off. etc. etc. etc.

I can't imagine that most successful actors would have any interest in running.

[SammyWinstonJack]

30. Well that would explain why Raygun and Ahhnuld ran wouldn't it?

Bedtime for Bonzo, anyone?

[Woodstock]

31. How about Julia Roberts for president?

Not any less ridiculous than the Terminator for governor. And I bet the sheeple like her a lot better than him. We'd be a shoe in for winning in 2004, forget money or campaigning, she'd win without any of it.

Oh, God, what has this country come to?

[Hippo_Tron]

32. My top celebrity pick... Henry Winkler

Seriously I wonder if The Fonz is a liberal. That would be friggen awesome. We could have signs that say "Fonz for president" and he could start out his state of the union address with "heyyyy"

[robsul82]

33. The Costner-Ford connection...

...for JFK, first pick for Jim Garrison was in fact Harrison Ford. Ford, however, turned it down for the political content. He agreed with the message, but he didn't want to alienate his base. Costner, a Republican, signed up after that.

In 1997, Air Force One was produced. Who was the first pick for the role of the president? Kevin Costner. He wanted the producers to wait a year, however, because he wanted to make Beyond Borders (now an Angelina Jolie movie set for release in a few months, it was in development Hell for years). The producers then took the role to Harrison Ford, who also wanted the producers to wait a year so that he could make Six Days, Seven Nights. His agent was able to delay production on Six Days, Seven Nights for the length of the AFO shoot, though, and so Harrison happily took the role.

Oh yeah, I know my shiat.

Later.

RJS

[leesa]

36. What qualifications does he have to be a governor?

Why would he be a great governor...because you like his acting, his face, his ass? Or have you seen him manage a budget, manage a team of workers? If he has extraordinary management skills, then great, otherwise, do we really want to fall to this level?

[pstokely]

37. would a bunch of stars fans become registered voters?

just to vote for Han Solo?