Hollywood Republicans -- yes, they do exist -- support Giuliani, McCain

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Academy Award winner Jon Voight stumps for Rudy Giuliani in Florida.

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Hollywood Republicans -- yes, they do exist -- support Giuliani, McCain

Republicans have never had an easy time in Hollywood.

But throughout the presidential primaries, John McCain and Rudy Giuliani have been quietly working to garner what little support there is in showbiz for conservative politicians. A little bit of Tinseltown glitter goes a long way -- just ask Mike Huckabee, who has been milking support from 1980s action star and Internet humor icon Chuck Norris for all it’s worth.

Some big-name talent is lining up behind the GOP candidates. Adam Sandler, Jon Voight, Robert Duvall and 24 creator Joel Surnow have thrown in with Giuliani. Jerry Bruckheimer, Barry Diller, Kirk Kerkorian, Richard Parsons and Lorne Michaels have given money to John McCain.

Does all of this Tinseltown support help or hurt the candidates? Is a touch of Hollywood useful in American politics?

Ben likes: Celebrity endorsements... who cares?

Pat Sajak/Sajak Says

This is America, and we celebrities have just as much right as anyone else to speak up about any issue. The problem is that more attention is paid to what we say because we’re well known. But why should that matter? O.J. Simpson is one of the world’s best-known celebrities, but I can’t imagine anyone following his lead in a voting booth. I suppose anything that gets people engaged in the political process is a good thing, but the idea that a gold record, a top-ten TV show or an Oscar translates into some sort of political wisdom doesn’t make much sense to me. Trust me, one’s view of the world isn’t any clearer from the back seat of a limo.

Joel likes: The Hollywood campaign

Eric Alterman/The Atlantic

Among the tiny percentage of Americans who do contribute large amounts of money to political campaigns (the number who give a thousand dollars or more to any candidate hovers around one tenth of one percent of the population), Hollywood contributors are almost alone in not trying to buy themselves anything so concrete as a tax break or a watered-down regulation. Although the entertainment industry itself does have corporate PACs, which do the industry's bidding and spread its wealth accordingly, most of the contributions handed out by individual members of the entertainment industry are ideological money that buys them nothing.

Brian Anderson/City Journal: Conservatives in Hollywood?!

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