The Reliable Source: Susan Sarandon's 'Rabid' Republican Mom [Hee Hee]

Washington Post ^ | March 18, 2003 | Lloyd Grove

[aculeus]

Guests at Mark and Ali Russell's annual St. Patrick's Day house party were charmed Sunday by 79-year-old Lenora Tomalin, a feisty supporter of President Bush and his take-no-prisoners stance toward Iraq's Saddam Hussein.

But they were shocked when Tomalin identified herself -- to the likes of Tim Russert and Maureen Orth, Chris and Kathleen Matthews, and Joe diGenovan and Victoria Toensing -- as the mother of Susan Sarandon.

That Susan Sarandon -- who has been leading the charge of the Hollywood left against ...

[HELLRAISER II]

Well Susan as the saying goes "Momma knows Best."

[netmilsmom]

It was very much a sixties thing to be against one's parents. From what I see today with my nieces and nephews and their friends, there is a little rebellion but not like in the generation before. I loved my parents, I thought they were wonderful and thank God, most kids are loving their parents too.

[sam_paine]

Sounds to made up to be true. Susan's child "brainwashed"---from his grandmother?!?! Yikes.

[EllaMinnow]

Click and read the whole article - it's wonderful!

[Kerberos]

"It was very much a sixties thing to be against one's parents"

Well most people go through that thing where they kind of rebel against their parents, while they are trying to establish their own identity.

But you eventually grow up and get over it.

[7 x 77]

"When I visit Susan, I tread on eggs," Tomalin said. "The most difficult time was during the election of 2000. I live in Florida, and I was a Republican poll-watcher in Polk County. Afterward, I was sitting at the breakfast table with Jack Henry, my then-13-year-old grandson, and he looked over at me, with the sweetest little smile on his face, and said, 'I hear you voted for Bush.' I looked up at Susan, who's standing at the sink, and she says, 'All he wants to know is: How could you have voted for Bush?' And I thought, 'I'm not going to discuss my politics with a 13-year-old who has been brainwashed!' But I just let it go -- even though I have never been as rabid as I have been during the past few years."

[Tamzee]

Fun, thanks :-)

[fight_truth_decay]

I pulled out this excerpt which I liked:

Of Sarandon's anti-Bush activism, Tomalin said: "That's a given. That's the way she thinks. That's what Hollywood thinks. We don't agree, but I respect her -- more than she does me." But surely, we suggested, Tomalin's 56-year-old eldest child respects her mother's opinions. "Wanna bet?" Tomalin scoffed. Sarandon's office didn't respond yesterday to our detailed message and fax.

"When I visit Susan, I tread on eggs," Tomalin said. "The most difficult time was during the election of 2000. I live in Florida, and I was a Republican poll-watcher in Polk County. Afterward, I was sitting at the breakfast table with Jack Henry, my then-13-year-old grandson, and he looked over at me, with the sweetest little smile on his face, and said, 'I hear you voted for Bush.' I looked up at Susan, who's standing at the sink, and she says, 'All he wants to know is: How could you have voted for Bush?' And I thought, 'I'm not going to discuss my politics with a 13-year-old who has been brainwashed!' But I just let it go -- even though I have never been as rabid as I have been during the past few years."

[verity]

I doubt this because Susan was conceived in a petri dish. :~)

[fight_truth_decay]

One wonders if she will now be flooded with invitations to appear on select news cable shows.

[GilesB]

This is threatening to make me reconsider my stand on abortion.

Maybe it should be legal up to the 60th year?

[joesnuffy]

"When I visit Susan, I tread on eggs," Tomalin said. "The most difficult time was during the election of 2000. I live in Florida, and I was a Republican poll-watcher in Polk County. Afterward, I was sitting at the breakfast table with Jack Henry, my then-13-year-old grandson, and he looked over at me, with the sweetest little smile on his face, and said, 'I hear you voted for Bush.' I looked up at Susan, who's standing at the sink, and she says, 'All he wants to know is: How could you have voted for Bush?' And I thought, 'I'm not going to discuss my politics with a 13-year-old who has been brainwashed!' But I just let it go -- even though I have never been as rabid as I have been during the past few years."

Funny ..Saranwraps take on her own kid's statement.." I hear you voted for Bush" sounds like a kid who is curious to hear his Grandma's take...So naturally Saranrap rethinks for the kid and tell grandma what the kid "really means"...and saranrap restates as "How could you have voted for Bush"...these are two completley different statements... This indicates to me that Saranrap...far far from being a true "liberal" is ,in reality, a control freak and a thought control freak at that...a dictator over her own sons freedom to ask a simple question as he seeks the truth...and wishes to know his grandma's point of view... Poor kid...what a bitch to have for a mom...

[small voice in the wilderness]

' I looked up at Susan, who's standing at the sink, and she says, 'All he wants to know is: How could you have voted for Bush?'

All he wants to know is:????? How can susan, who cherishes her right to speak her mind, decide just WHAT her son wants to know? It would be extremely difficult for me to be susan sarandon's mother. Do you answer the door or not when you see her drive up???

[jackbill]

May God grant Lenora Tomalin a very long and healthy life!

By the way, if memory serves, Sarandon was raised as a Catholic. Someone should ask Momma what she thinks of her daughter "living in sin" all these years, raising bastard children.

[freekitty]

Listen to your Mom.

[ClearCase_guy]

"We don't agree, but I respect her -- more than she does me."

Sarandon is certainly not a liberal. She is a Liberal. She is a control freak. She knows what's best for everyone. Most importantly, she will tolerate no dissent. She feels threatened by any free exchange of ideas. Like any Liberal, she'll just start shouting and calling names if she has to.

[Izzy Dunne]

Maybe it should be legal up to the 60th year?

As long as it's to preserve the sanity of the mother...

[veronica]

I happened upon Jessica Lange on Charlie Rose last night, yammering incoherently about Iraq, Bush etc. What an airhead, not unlike Susan Sarandon.

Like Sarandon, I too have a mother who is a "rabid" Republican, but unlike Sarandon, I learned long ago that, as you correctly stated, mother indeed does know best. ;)

[Constitution Day]

She has a mother?
That's funny, I thought she had just sprung fully formed from the body of Satan! :)