Fabulous job by actress and Romney-supporter Stacey Dash on Piers Morgan tonight. She notes that she’s chosen Romney not based on the color of his skin, but on the content of his character. Well done! Here’s the video via Mediaite.
On Tuesday night, Piers Morgan invited actress Stacey Dash — of Clueless fame — to discuss the recent frenzy spurred her tweeting support for Mitt Romney. While the backlash surprised her, Dash said she wasn’t offended. And that she genuinely believes Romney deserves a chance to help the country.
“The idea that you as a black actress would come under such venomous attack purely” for picking a candidate is “extremely objectionable,” Morgan said.
We’re all entitled to our own opinions, Dash said, and she simply exercised her First Amendment right to say who she’s voting for. Dash, who voted for President Obama in 2008, said she’s switched her vote “because of the state of the country. And I want the next four years to be different.”
“I believe him,” Dash said of Romney. Citing the Romneys’ Meet the Press interview, she said, “They spoke to me. They seemed authentic and genuine.”
Dash said she didn’t understand the fury, much less whether it came from her being a black actress or simply an actress. The reaction “shocked” and “saddened” her — but not angry or offended.
On a different note, Dash said she heard from Paul Ryan, who thanked her for her support, and told her she was brave and they support her as well. Dash called his reaching out “generous” and “kind.”
The harsh reaction following Dash’s vocal support for Romney shows the country is not united, Dash said. But we all need to be united and realize we are all capable of achieving the American dream. Further, Dash added, it is “unfair” to “demonize” someone for achieving the American dream.
“Do your homework, look at your country,” Dash said, also touting Romney’s record as both a businessman and governor. “I believe him. And I believe he deserves a shot.”
The Democrat party line has been that Romney is extreme, out of touch, uncaring, not to mention rich (which is bad except for Democrats). The goal was and is to keep their people from ever looking for themselves, judging for themselves. Open your eyes and you’re hit in the face with what the shrinks call “cognitive dissonance”; a dislocation between “known” fact and observed fact. How to resolve the internal conflict? Which model to modify or discard? Oh, the agony! Toss into the mix that, by choosing “wrong”, you will be reviled, cursed. Pressure to close your eyes is tremendous. Who wants to be a pariah?
Open your eyes and lose your friends. Close your eyes and lose your soul.
Tough call.
She’s anything but “clueless”. I appreciate her courage to come out in support of her favorite candidate.
Does it age me when I admit I had never heard of or seen this young lady before? it is encouraging she would be emboldened enough with the courage of her convictions and give voice to her support for Romney. It is sad and revolting to read some of the, well, illiterate and violent responses.
There may well be two Americas where the disaffected and easily led are nearly illiterate, uneducated folk who have no faculty to understand the complex issues in our society. They seem to reduce their world to understandable terms of where their next meal will come from and who will give them free stuff so that they can approximate the lifestyle of ‘normal’ Americans. These are the Obama voters en masse. These are they our founders wanted not to be able to vote, and with good reason.
In the long term, we need to encourage the Stacy Dash-es out there to become the role models to these disaffected. Obama and his ilk have been the anti-heros and must be defeated.
We talk and write about the importance of the coming election. In stark terms, the Stacey Dash story isn’t about the 1st Amendment as much as it is about the undercurrent of largely uneducated people who are so willing to be violent.
Oh, may God save us from destruction!
Your vote on November 6th is much more important than we can now see. Choose wisely.
It is obvious that the government and NEA controlled education system of our country has led to such horrid ignorance in our society. The government wants such idiots to vote as they are easily persuaded to follow a country governed by a tyranny.
As I recall, in the beginning only property owners had the right to vote, and for good reason; they had true “skin in the game.”
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Kudos to Stacy, at all most 50yrs old I belive Stacy Dash is of sound mind and body.
I hope Tammy can get Dash on her show soon, and FOX too.
Tammy, stay on TV while in NY we love it!
I would like to see the “BMB Show” on FOX staring Tammy Bruce-Leslie Marshall-Jedediah Bila
Rock On!
She’s black?
Yep she is Blacker than Midnight 🙂
How gorgeous is she? 46, damn. I read she is of mexican and black extraction but I think she is 100% American!
I’ve always had such a crush on her since I was in high school and now even more so.
Ditto?
🙂