Bruce Willis denies that he is a Republican!

[benburch]

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/arts/story.html?id=06c67d53-5ef9-46f7-9c86-a112750aad58

Moments later, he's off on a tangent when a reporter suggests that Willis is one of the few Hollywood actors who is "proud" to be a Republican.
"Let me stop you right there!" Willis interrupts.

"Everybody write this down because I'm sick of answering this.

"I'm a Republican only as far as I want a smaller government. I want less government intrusion. I want them to stop pissing on my money and your money -- the tax dollars that we give 50 or 40 per cent of every year, and I want them to be fiscally responsible, and I want those goddam lobbyists out of Washington. Do that and I'll say I'm a Republican.

"But other than that, I want the government to take care of people who need help -- like the kids in foster care, the half million kids in orphanages right now.... I want them to take care of the elderly and give them free medicine, give them whatever they need. There's tons, billions and billions of dollars, that are just being wasted. Okay? I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down."

[WI_DEM]

1. Lot's of people will be backtracking

[bryant69]

2. Interesting

That's not exactly denying he's a Republican, but pretty close.

He's a sane republican, as opposed to the insane republicans we have in power now.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[tatertop]

3. He is one sickening bastard

[pitohui]

4. ha, the rats are fleeing the ship

i don't blame him for being embarrassed to be a republican, he's catchin' on

[valerief]

5. I'm a Republican when it helps me

And I'm not a Republican when it doesn't.

(Typical Republican defensiveness!)

[Webster Green]

6. Another rat jumping off the ship...

I've seen that asshole cheering for the chimp, more than once.

I'm still boycotting his stuff.

[buff2]

7. Wow............another blow to the bu$h mis-administration

Bruce WAS a repuke....guess he has seen the light.:hi:

[Wickerman]

8. Do we have to do this again?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=435415

[benburch]

16. Missed it first time.

:shrug:

[Wickerman]

21. Sorry, Ben - not intended to be directed at you

just hate to see the gang that will jump up in glee that Bruce has seen the light when he actively cheerled for the war and the very problems he is bitching about in the interview.

[benburch]

25. I know...

but I love his obvious discomfort.

[Marie26]

9. Is he a "Libertarian"?

:eyes:

[liberal N proud]

10. Doesn't sound like a today republican from this

less intrusion
pissing on our money
fiscally responsible
lobbyist out of Washington

republicans today are all not about that.

Letterman on Monday would also make one think he is not too republican.

[leftchick]

11. oh my, brucie has flip flopped now hasn't he?

remember this gem from 2000?...

<snip>

"If you guys vote for Al Gore, you're out of your minds… Gore's a knucklehead… just the lying and mendacity of the last eight years of the regime that Al Gore was a part and parcel of… I mean, there is only so much lying the American people will take before they go, 'Uh, this doesn't seem like a good idea.' You have to look at what he does and what he stands for."

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=6508

[father_of_hope]

12. he's just embarrassed like every Repugnant

to admit what/who he is.

Even though he did go along with Letterman's joke on Dick Cheney the other night.

[Captain Hilts]

13. Duplicitous bastard. nt

[SledDriver]

14. He must have a new movie coming out.

Die Hard 37?

[Beelzebud]

15. I like 12 Monkies and Pulp Fiction.

Beyond that, I could care less what his personal views are.

I care about his views about as much as he cares about mine...

[bunkerbuster1]

30. 12 Monkeys? That's who writes his action-movie scripts, right?

[Beelzebud]

32. LOL nm... /me puts on dunce cap. :D

LOL

[magellan]

34. LOL - good one! (nt)

[lectrobyte]

42. No, it's his best movie, and one of the best SF efforts ever filmed IMHO.

Worth seeing twice. In high concept terms, Philip K. Dick meets Cuckoos Nest.

[IsItJustMe]

17. Interesting: How many years has it taken him to deny this?

Sometimes your in fashion and sometimes your not.

[jjmalonejr]

18. Sounds like he perceives "Republican" to be a dirty word.

I agree with most of what he said in the excerpt above.

Sounds more like a Clintonian Democrat's agenda than a Republican agenda, though.

[giant_robot]

19. When you lie with the dogs you get fleas...

...now shut the fuck up, Brucie.

[The Backlash Cometh]

20. He's a Republican.

Not one word about the poverty issues in this country.

[bunkerbuster1]

31. That's not really true

"I want the government to take care of people who need help -- like the kids in foster care, the half million kids in orphanages right now.... I want them to take care of the elderly and give them free medicine, give them whatever they need. There's tons, billions and billions of dollars, that are just being wasted."

He may be a weasel, but I can't disagree with any of that.

[The Backlash Cometh]

37. Oh, that's easy to weasel out of.

I've heard Republicans before and they talk right along those lines. Easy to feel warm and comfy with kids in foster care and the elderly. No argument from anybody there. That's what he defines as "people who need help." In fact, he qualified it. But he didn't stick his neck out for those in need of welfare because they were born poor or discriminated, now did he? Those are on the Dem platform.

[bunkerbuster1]

41. I hear ya.

just felt like being nitpicky, is all.

[Maat]

39. Yes, but ..

per my buddies ... the ones I worked with when I was a social worker ... he voted a guy in who CUT the help we used to get foster children to their relatives (and financially help the relatives assume care).

He voted in a guy who CUT prenatal care programs and who CUT the programs we used to help people adopt kids with no viable caretakers (prior to the fos-dopt parent).

Shame on you, Bruce!

[11 Bravo]

22. Rat to sinking ship: "See ya!"

This could be the start of something HUGH!1!1!1 I'm SERIES!1!1!1

[NVMojo]

23. excellent rant! but he's in the wrong party!

[MellowOne]

24. If Bush continues crapping all over us

No one will want to be a Republican, go Bush.

[LostinVA]

26. 1945 Germany all over again -- bury that Party badge, Bruce!

[zbdent]

27. I wonder if he made that "bounty" knowing that nobody would

collect the $1,000,000 on OBL's head . . .

[wisteria]

28. I lost all respect for him when he came out in support of Bush! n/t

[Johonny]

29. Sound like a typical rethug to me

I want the government to take care of everyone, but I don't want to pay for it. What a loser.

[malaise]

33. It will be hard to find one shortly n/t

[underpants]

35. Bruce if you are paying 40% in taxes you either need a new accountant

or you are getting ripped off.

[genieroze]

36. Face it Bruce not all Rethugs are neocons, just the majority.

[tjwash]

38. I would deny it if I were him.

nt

[CottonBear]

40. But Bruce: Republicans LOVE lobbysists!

Anyway, taxes are the price we pay for a civil society. If you and others like you had voted for Democrats we wouldn't be in such a mess right now.