Posted on 11/11/2004 1:20:04 PM PST by Sybeck1
I ran across this picture and well considering Frank Sinatra was a democrat, I thought Dino was too.
He didn't drink. I suspect he was a Democrat, but certainly no wild-eyed commie liberal. Like Frank, I bet he was a Reagan supporter.
Several comments:
First, Sinatra was a 'Rat. Big JFK fan, invited him to his house in Palm Springs. Spent a lot of cash to build a helicopter landing pad for Marine One (or whatever they called it back then) and then JFK blew him off. I think it had something to do with advisors telling JFK it wasn't good to be seen with someone with suspected mob ties.
Second, I believe Dino was a Pubbie, I remember hearing/reading/seeing that somewhere.
Thirdly, typically, Dean Martin had apple juice in his glass and the whole drinking thing was a schtick (at least from the late 60s early 70s forward).
Thought everyone knew that Sinatra was so ticked off at JFK refusing to come to his Palm Springs house after helping him win the presidency, that he swore Republican. Was a big Reagan supporter in the eighties. I presume so was Dino.
You have to love a group of people who referred to cuff links as "curb feelers."
Too funny...
Reagan became a Republican in '62.
Steubenville (my home town) is still blue collar and Democrat. Jefferson County went for Kerry.
just a quick FYI- Dino's drunken routine was an act. He rarely if ever drank socially and was a devoted family man. As for Sinatra-he was a close friend of the Reagans and a staunch republican later in life. That is a great picture. My favorite president and three of my favorite entertainers.
Cold. That was very cold.
Prairie (and I loved it)
As for Deano, I think he, like Sinatra, was initially a blue-collar Truman-Kennedy Democrat. Sinatra, frozen out of the Kennedy circle because of his reputed mob association, switched his support to the Republican Party in the late 1960s. He was honorary chairman of the 1985 Reagan Inaugural.
And of course, Jerry Lewis is a Republican. :)
Yes Dean Martin voted Republican until the day he died ... he's voted as a Demorat ever since
are you trying to send a subliminal message there? :-)
I figured it was. My mom was born and raised there but I haven't been back for anything longer than half a day in about 18 years.
Because they are used in a lot of advertising, I have allposters.com blocked. Can you tell me who all is in the photo? Thanks.
One of my favorite Dean Martin lines...he said,
"Hey, I shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up..."
Jimmy Stewart, the Duke, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Sinatra (later) ...solid Republicans in attitude at least Red-Staters as we define them now
Ronald Reagan participated in one of Dean Martin's classic "roast" specials. This photo, I'm pretty sure, is from that particular "roast." (It may even have been a roast of John Wayne.)
Lets not forget Bing Crosby and Peter Lawford a couple of other Republicans
LOL..."HELLO LADY!!!..."
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