Actress Susan Sarandon Endorses Clinton Opponent In Senate Race

AP ^ | May 18, 2006

[West Coast Conservative]

Actress Susan Sarandon, a longtime liberal political activist and outspoken opponent of the Iraq war, endorsed an anti-war Democrat challenging Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's re-election bid Tuesday.

Sarandon is backing Jonathan Tasini, a labor advocate and former president of the National Writers' Union, who has based his longshot campaign on Clinton's vote in 2002 authorizing military intervention in Iraq.

Clinton, who is widely considered the front-runner for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination if she chooses to run, has sharply criticized the Bush Administration's handling of the war. But she has also refused to call for American troops to be removed from Iraq.

Sarandon has been a harsh critic of Clinton's vote on the war, telling a British television interviewer last month that Clinton had "crumbled under the pressure of the moment." She also told ITV1 that she wasn't enthusiastic about a Clinton presidential candidacy.

Announcing Sarandon's endorsement, Tasini called the 59-year old Academy Award winner a "passionate advocate for human rights, justice and civil liberties" and said he was "honored" to have her support.

"She has never wavered when the call has come for people to stand on the front lines in support of progressive principles that affect the lives of so many people in our country," Tasini said.

Sarandon did not offer a statement of her own but an aide confirmed she was backing Tasini.

Earlier this month, Sarandon joined Clinton at a rally in Washington for the Christopher Reeve Foundation, which promotes research on spinal cord injuries. There, Sarandon offered nothing but praise for Clinton, saying "we are all very lucky to have her here today as a leader in Congress."

[Argus]

Jonathan Tasini, a labor advocate and former president of the National Writers' Union

In other words, a dyed-in-the-wool Stalinist.

[randog]

Sarandon is backing Jonathan Tasini, a labor advocate and former president of the National Writers' Union...

It would have been easier to just say "communist".

[RetiredArmy]

Her top roll was as a whore in a baseball movie. What do you expect from this kind of trash.

[Mr. Jeeves]

What a wonderful tactic to boost Hillary's credibility with moderates.

[gondramB]

This probably helps Hillary nationally. For every nut wing leftist she loses she picks up at least one from the middle.

[Yo-Yo]

Waiting for the MSM stories about the impending DemocRAT implosion...

Anyone? Anyone? (chirp)

[Red Badger]

What movie was that?......

[puroresu]

Wasn't she in an important film back around 1979 or so?

[JoeGar]

Sarandon is backing Jonathan Tasini, a labor advocate and former president of the National Writers' Union

Sounds like a commie loves commie endorsement.

[Chi-townChief]

For a lefty oldster who never smiles, Susie is still pretty hot.

[absolootezer0]

Her top roll was as a whore in a baseball movie. What do you expect from this kind of trash.

i thought the role she was most known for was as janet in RHPS?

[Prysson]

IN other news Mickey Mouse endorses Pluto...

Why on earth would anyone consider it news who Susan Sarandon endorses for anything except maybe pushup bras...

[gondramB]

>>Wasn't she in an important film back around 1979 or so?<<

Well, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is by far her best work but she's done other stuff, I think.

[jimbo123]

Clinton and Sarandon are working together. It's all part of the plan. Sarandon is just playing the role of good solider for the Demonrats.

[SerpentDove]

>>This probably helps Hillary nationally. For every nut wing leftist she loses she picks up at least one from the middle.<<

I respectfully disagree.

She will NEVER get the conservative vote.

I think if she loses the liberal vote, she is toast.There are not enough votes in the MUSHY MIDDLE (IMHO).

[calljack]

I see a movie.

Hillary and Louise.

They both go over the edge.

[evets]

Yeah, she's 'hot' compared to Cindy Sheeman...

[linda_22003]

Her "role" (not roll) was in "Bull Durham", 1988, with Kevin Costner and Tim Robbins. And she wasn't a "whore".

[kx9088]

Bull Durham with Costner and her life partner Timmy "I'm better than everyone else so bow to me" Robbins.

[jimbo123]

Susie is still pretty hot.

I hope you're joking...

[Sisku Hanne]

Note to Susan: All the Revlon in the world can't hide the ugly inside.

[Osage Orange]

ROFLOL!!!!!!!!!!

BAAAWWWAAAHHAAAAA!!!

[kx9088]

You're right, she wasn't getting paid to sleep with the team so that only makes her a slut.

[Dilbert56]

Clinton doesn't have the political dexterity of her husband. He could change direction smoothly. Kerry reverses direction clumsily but has had enough practice to overcome it.

[Red Badger]

Oh yeah, now I remember......

[Sisku Hanne]

Yikes! It's a man, baby!

[gondramB]

>>I think if she loses the liberal vote, she is toast.There are not enough votes in the MUSHY MIDDLE (IMHO).<<

You would think that from how divided the polls are but there are still more people who self identify as Democrats than Republicans in the swing states and yet Republicans have been winning the states - that implies some votes in the middle that are switchable.

In principal, a vote in the middle is worth more because you both get the vote and deny it to the opposition.

[ClearCase_guy]

Well, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is by far her best work but she's done other stuff, I think.

I had great fun in a college Sociology class (taught by a Marxist lesbian -- but you knew that already) writing a review of "Thelma and Louise".

In the movie, both Thelma and Louise have pretty good lives, but don't realize it. The men in their lives push them around a little or ignore them a little, but mostly these two bimbos are taken care of pretty well. Then, they decide to take charge of their own lives! Yee-Haa!

Every decision that Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis makes is a bad one. They descend further and further into a hell of their own making. They mess up other people, destroy property, and cause much unhappiness. In the end, they decide that they've screwed up so much that they have no option other than suicide.

Most people say it as a pro-woman, anti-man movie. IMO, it's a "women are hopeless idiots" movie.

Even my Marxist lesbian teacher had to agree that I had some good points.

[jimbo123]

Angry leftism has done a number on Jessica Lange, too...

[evets]

Yeah, she wasn't a 'whore'...

She was a baseball 'groupie',
who banged a different player every year.
(Whores charge money.)

[ElPatriota]

Oh my! - LOL - I wonder what is like to be a lefty!... What good choices.. what is a lefty to do!!! /sarc

[Red Badger]

I thought prostitutes charged money, whores did it free.........

[threeleftsmakearight]

This is all eye-wash anyway.
Do you think for 1 minute that when Mrs. Bill Clinton becomes the Dem nominee, Susan sarandon won't be front and center campaigning for her? Please.
It's easy to support her "opponent" in a race he no chance of winning. She's sending Mrs. Bill Clinton a message, that's all.

[Larry Lucido]

Writers have unions?

[kx9088]

A whore is a ho is a pro is a prostitute. They all charge money.

[chit*chat]

Still backing losers, I see.

[Tamar1973]

Only the liberal MSM would believe that this kind of "endorsement" is news.

[tumblindice]

I saw her in a whore movie, I'm sure of it.
(That's `horror', TD.)
Uh, never mind. I was thinking of "Hanoi" Jane.

[RetiredArmy]

Guys remember her from Bull Durham with Costner.

[RetiredArmy]

Bull Durham.

[ssaftler]

PULEEZ! I just finished lunch.

[evets]

I stand corrected. She was a whore in "Bull Durham"

and a prostitute in "Pretty Baby". Yeah, that's it....

[RetiredArmy]

"And she wasn't a whore."

Sorry your wrong. Her "character" picked out a player every season to screw. What else do you call that type of behavior?

[RetiredArmy]

She was a baseball 'groupie', who banged a different player every year. (Whores charge money.)

Prostitutes charge money. Whores simply screw for free.

[meandog]

[Proud_texan]

Yeah, she looks pretty good but I knew a fella that was a set carpenter on a movie she was doing and he said, in more colorful language, that she smelled and apparently to the point where everyone on the set talked about it.

He speculated that she was one of those earth mother types who eschewed deodorant but for whatever reason she had world class body odor.

Or maybe it's just a leftie thing.

[shield]

A hollyweirdo who thinks she's smart enough to endorse and influence anyone. Oh Please.........

[Ichneumon]

I saw her in a whore movie, I'm sure of it. (That's `horror', TD.) Uh, never mind. I was thinking of "Hanoi" Jane.

Jane Fonda too ("Klute"), but Susan Sarandon was also "in a whore movie" -- she was a prostitute in "Pretty Baby", and brought her underaged daughter (played by a 13-year-old Brooke Shields) into "the business" as well.

[evets]

Aaah. Thanks for the relief!