Annette Bening: Women Voting For Palin? “Bizarre”
Posted by Dirty Harry on Thursday, September 4th, 2008
“I think it’s exciting to see a woman chosen to be on a major ticket,” Bening said.
“But the idea that people, who voted for Hillary, who tend to be Democrats, would change and vote for McCain because of Sarah Palin seems to me bizarre.”
However, she admitted that there are some women who probably would move into Palin’s camp because they want to vote for a woman.
“I find that an odd idea because of course Sarah Palin’s politics are to the right of McCain’s. She’s incredibly conservative and I think it’s fair to say she’s more conservative than John McCain. So whether she will rally more conservative people to get out there and vote, I don’t know. But most of the people I know that were interested in voting for Hillary are voting for Obama.”
Bening, a mother of four who is married to actor Warren Beatty, will be voting for Obama. So will her costars in the new movie - Meg Ryan, Cloris Leachman, Debra Messing - as well as director Diane English.
Only actress Eva Mendes declined to say how she would cast her ballot, saying she considered such a decision private.
Annette Bening has four kids and works? Alert Sally Quinn.
My favorite line: “But most of the people I know that were interested in voting for Hillary are voting for Obama.” No comment.
For the record, I’m a fan of both Bening and Warren Beatty and am just having a little fun with her here. Both are wonderful actors and classy human beings.
Interesting how Eva Mendes kept quiet about her vote — and don’t think she’s not suspect right now. Personally, I look forward to teaching her the secret handshake which includes both a foot massage and nude sunbathing.
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Stephanieon 04 Sep 2008 at 2:55 pm 1She’s Cuban….you know where her heart lies!
Stickwick Staperson 04 Sep 2008 at 3:00 pm 2Yes, Palin is to the right of McCain, and lemme say it’s the ONLY reason I’m voting in this election.
FYI, the statistics favor married women voting Republican. Probably not by a huge margin, but still. So Bening is the “bizarre” one.
Tommy Von 04 Sep 2008 at 3:02 pm 3She’s right. If you were a die hard Hillary supporter and embraced her policies, it would be bizarre if you suddenly voted for McCain/Palin just because Palin is a woman.
Now, if you were on the fence about who to vote for and you saw Palin last night and compared that to who the Obama campaign/MSM told you she was… it wouldn’t surprise me at all if you decided to vote for McCain/Palin simply on principle.
Audietooon 04 Sep 2008 at 3:16 pm 4The Mighty Sarah has them scared and running.
Ydobonon 04 Sep 2008 at 3:27 pm 5Via Small Dead Animals (Reposted from the open thread)
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/009453.html
They love her in Hillary Land
http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=27423&page=11
“I love, love, love this!! We are going to kick Obama’s butt all the way back to Kenya!!!!!!” …
Yeah. It’s really easy to see now what they were so afraid of. I have to watch that again…..if no other reason but to catch that joke about the greek columns again.”
Follow the link to the discussion on hillaryclintonforum.net. Seriously.
Keiraon 04 Sep 2008 at 3:32 pm 6Here’s another link from the land that knows no reason:
http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/
These women hate Obama with the heat of a thousand hot, hot suns. Not sure if angry feminists are a natural constituency but, hey, I’ll take ‘em.
StevefromMKEon 04 Sep 2008 at 3:34 pm 7Kind of hard to not be right of McCain since he’s practically a moderate.
a. acaciaon 04 Sep 2008 at 3:35 pm 8No doubt Palin wins over lots and LOTS of Independent Women (which might be enough to carry us through, btw), but I’m afraid most of the Hillary drones will pinch their noses and vote the party line. I agree with Benning. Voting for someone who stands against everything you cherish - just because she’s a woman - is bizarre. Yeah, Mrs Smith & Wesson is impressive and charming and full of Teddy Bear vitality, but so what? The strident ideologues will never betray their cause - reproductive “rights.” It’s their Alamo.
Blackiswhite, Imperial Agent Provocateuron 04 Sep 2008 at 3:49 pm 9Ms. Benning, there is a Mrs. Clue on the line. Should I just take a message?
BoffoTMCon 04 Sep 2008 at 4:04 pm 10I’m usually all for mocking leftist celebrities, but I think what Benning said is perfectly reasonable. It wouldn’t make sense for liberal women to vote for Palin just because she’s a woman, just as it wouldn’t have made sense for conservative women to vote for Hillary.
People should vote for the candidate they believe in, regardless of that candidate’s genitalia. I thought those of us who sensibly reject identity politics were in agreement about that.
wfon 04 Sep 2008 at 4:06 pm 11McCain could have nominated Annette Bening and Benign would still vote for Obama.
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whiskeyon 04 Sep 2008 at 4:40 pm 13The reaction to Palin is all about class, status, and power.
Pretty much ANY woman in Hollywood who is all about class, status, and power (that’s almost all of them) would back Obama because the “correct” people are voting for him.
After all, she married the very aging playboy Warren Beatty, as her career wound down, to find a place in Hollywood. What could you expect?
Carloson 04 Sep 2008 at 4:47 pm 14So the feminazis are actually admitting that it’s not a woman’s vagina that matters, but her brains, beliefs, values that counts in the end. They’re catching on!
Carloson 04 Sep 2008 at 5:06 pm 15Interesting how Eva Mendes kept quiet about her vote
Eva Mendes is Cuban-American (if I’m not mistaken), and I never met a Cuban that didn’t vote straight ticket GOP.
wanketteon 04 Sep 2008 at 5:31 pm 16I had to chuckle over the “to the right of John McCain”. Most Republicans ARE.
RESon 04 Sep 2008 at 5:34 pm 17“…most of the people I know that were interested in voting for Hillary are voting for Obama.”
Ms Bening, meet Pauline Kael.
Add another to the list of clueless celebs who never-the-less put their yaps in gear:
Matthew Modine: Full Metal Straitjacket [Tim Graham]
While Greg keeps wishing for liberal celebrities to spew inane thoughts, there ought to be prize for actor Matthew Modine, star of Full Metal Jacket a couple of decades ago. With the media focusing in on McCain’s speech tonight and the week’s focus on his heroic biography, Modine uncorked this rebuttal in Denver, as reported by the Washington Examiner:
[MORE: http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDUxMzIxYWQzZTM2MDY4Mzk4YzhiYmNmMDcwNzUxNTg= ]
RESon 04 Sep 2008 at 5:38 pm 18wankette - that sounds like a set-up line:
“How do you get to the Right of McCain?”
“Read the Constitution.”
“Vote Republican.”
Moon 04 Sep 2008 at 6:59 pm 19“But the idea that people, who voted for Hillary, who tend to be Democrats, would change and vote for McCain because of Sarah Palin seems to me bizarre.”
I completely agree with her statement. If you are a woman, it is bizarre to vote for another woman just for that reason - if that woman has views completely opposite of yours!
I’m a woman and I would never in a million years vote for Hillary Clinton.
Sharpshinyon 04 Sep 2008 at 7:05 pm 20“Only actress Eva Mendes declined to say how she would cast her ballot, saying she considered such a decision private.”
But there’s no blacklist in Hollywood. No, sir.
Lloydon 04 Sep 2008 at 7:48 pm 21Miss Bening has given the most sensible response to Sarah Palin’s appearance on the national scene of any Obama supporter I have heard from yet. And that includes all the Democrats sitting in the news anchor chairs.
The Ugly Americanon 04 Sep 2008 at 8:47 pm 22Yeah, welll….something tells me that if I walked up to Bening and told her that I was a USN veteran, pro-life conservative lesbian who not only plans to vote for McCain/Palin but YES on Prop 8, her eyes would probably roll back into her head.
Kiton 04 Sep 2008 at 9:40 pm 23Though I have never seen Ned Beatty’s REDS, in the Reagan Diaries, the Gipper refers to the film as “interesting.”
Growltigeron 05 Sep 2008 at 6:06 am 24Benning’s philosophy isn’t hard to understand. What has she got to lose? She and Warren have too much money to be affected by Obama’s policies — just as Teresa Kerry (who paid 12.7% of her income to the IRS in 2003, the year before her husband berated Bush for his “tax cuts for the rich”). They have enough money to buy CPA’s, tax lawyers and the like who’ll help them shelter their millions. Working people don’t have that advantage. In Teresa Kerry’s case, she uses “tax free municipals” which return only 1-2% on your investment, but it’s TAX FREE. Thus if you have $500 million dollars to invest, you can get a nice living with paying much of anything in taxes. Sad for the rest of us, we don’t make $20 million/a movie, haven’t salted away $500 million to put in tax frees, etc.
Obama’s Socialism is a return to feudalism (neofeudalism) where the State takes the place of the king and the Superrich and politically well-placed are the nobles.
Using the power to tax (which is also the power to destroy), the “king-state” taxes the upper income earner (earner being the key word) to the median and elevates the lower and non income earner to that same median creating a single (serf) class over which the king and nobles govern/rule. There might be a small middle class (the guilds in previous eras) but it’ll be powerless.
During the twentieth century, socialism and communism was tried all over the world. Only in Western Europe did it not deteriorate into totalitarianism. (How can you get people to work for the “common good” and not self interest if you don’t force them?). As for Western Europe, until Margaret Thatcher, Britain was about to go under. France and Germany still struggle. Denmark, Sweden, Norway do better with socialism because of a lack of diversity. But diversity is coming there, too, and now they’re starting to have trouble.
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