Could George Clooney be the next governor of California?

Regarding the “Beware of actor” bumpersticker…

The major difference between Clooney and Reagan at the point in their careers when they first ran for office is this: Clooney has decades of experience in political and humanitarian activism. He is well-versed current and historical activism, both national and international. While certainly he will have advisors, he has enough of a knowledge base that he will not be dependent on a raft of radical-right, politicochristian handlers. In addition, George Clooney’s father both ran for office and served in office, and George Clooney in interviews has spoken of what he learned from the experience.

Reagan, on the other hand, had zero political experience–and interest–in politics, on any level, before he ran for governer, and his interest in politics, especially humanitarian politics, did not increase during his time in office as governor or president.

Reagan was basically a breathing cardboard-cutout of a governor and president, who completely depended on his gaggle of radical-right advisors who both set and implemented state and Whitehouse policies. In fact, the day after Reagan was elected president, nutball-right , Machiavellian, power-monger Paul Weyrich handed over a detailed and expansive, two four-inch-binder set of policies that he demanded to be enacted during Reagan’s White House terms of office. Almost all of Weyrich’ s demanded policies were enacted during Reagan’s terms in office.

It was Weyrich’ s policies that produced so much harm and lasting damage to our country. He was the one who advised Reagan to bend knee to the religious-right extremist power-brokers like Pat Robertson, which resulted in the marriage of the religious-right nutballs like Robertson and Paul Weyrich to the Republican Party.

Before Reagan’s first term was finished, the newly powerful politicochristian right would have created a choke-hold on the GOP, which soon learned it would have to dance to the tune of avaristict politicochristian-right moguls like Robertson to win elections.

In a classic tale of the tail wagging the dog, thanks to shortsighted, terrible decisions by the party and its star performer, Ronald Reagan, they ended up handing over their reins of power to a group of Christ-pimping political folks whose goals were short-term power and financial gains for themselves, and the country be damned.

The road to the collapse of the once-great GOP started with Ronald Reagan’s presidency, and has steadily worsened since then.

Clooney is the antithesis of Reagan. Clooney has political experience and a wide base of political knowledge. He is greatly interested in humanitarian issues. He is smart and , importantly, has a keen interest in politics and political policy. He does not need the governorship or presidency to increase his financial standing. He will not allow a bunch of handlers to pimp him and the governorship or presidency.

So I do not think you need to worry about Clooney being another cardboard-cutout governor or president.