Posted on 10/03/2004 10:27:34 PM PDT by doug from upland
Write/Producer/Director/Actor David Zucker, who has produced movies such as Airplane, Police Squad, Naked Gun, and Phone Booth, was one of the panelists today at the Liberty Film Festival in West Hollywood.
One of the more memorable comments of the 3-day festival was made by Zucker during the panel discussion with other producers, writers, and actors.
Zucker's family has been a typical Jewish Democratic family forever. He has now become the black sheep of the family since announcing his intention to vote for George Bush this year for president. The family was almost in shock to hear that.
Zucker calls himself a "Sept. 12 Republican." For him, everything changed on Sept. 11, 2001. He recognizes the stakes in the war against the Islamofascists.
Although his mom will not consider voting for a Republican, he keeps sending her emails to educate her a little bit.
As an alternative to voting for a Republican he has given his mom and the rest of the family another way out. Because they don't like Kerry very much, but it would be heresy to vote for Bush, he is urging his relatives to "just leave it blank."
Now that is creative. Democrats, if you have doubts about Kerry, do your civic duty and vote for senators and congressmen and state officials, but leave the vote for the president blank. We can live with that.
Encourage her DemocRATic friends to do the same thing.
My mother taught me when I was a very tender age to treat my elders with respect ( even when they were wrong)....You obviously haven't learned that lesson...Too bad you didn't come from republican stock on both sides of the family ....My family has voted republican since 1900...they would have voted republican longer but they weren't in this country then and so could not avail themselves of the o[[ortunoty
I told my parents that one time. They still think it's the thirties and FDR is saving America from greedy bankers and capitalists. I got the shock of my life a few weeks ago when my ninety year old father informed me he now considers himself an independent. When a lifetime Pubbie hater announces he's no longer a Dem, that's a sea change.
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