Posted on 01/23/2013 5:03:37 PM PST by ruralvoter
Teddy Turner inherited his love of sailing from his father, media magnate Ted Turner. But there is less of a family resemblance when it comes to politics.
While the elder Turner leans Democratic, Teddy Turner is running as a Republican in a crowded race for an open South Carolina congressional seat created by a U.S. Senate appointment.
"My dad asked, 'What's the minimum amount I can give because you're a Republican?'" Teddy Turner, 49, said. "My dad has been asking for years, 'How the heck did you become so conservative?'"
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He strikes me as kind of off, there is a little bit of real, deep, stupid-ness mixed in with his self absorbed, single minded business brilliance.
I think you’re right. Really smart in some ways. Really un-smart in other ways. Many people are like that.
And unfortunately the smart part isn’t smart enough to recognize the un-smart part and avoid a kind of self-congratulatory hubris.
“Filming major developments in the Soviet Union, Teddy Turner witnessed the devastation of communism — and it forever changed him. ..”
Agreed. But as with anyone closely associated with a lefty, you’ve got to wonder if it is on the level or just an act. Same reason I don’t trust Mary Matlin’s conservative credentials; she is married to that lefty snakehead James Carville.
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