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Reagan pic at his work desk?


Is this Sandler's GOP preference showing or just random? I'd tend to think the former since sets are not designed and decorated randomly.

Small thing I know, but was looking for comment on it online and came across nothing.

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Allen Covert is known to possess many latent conservative proclivities. He's quite socially liberal as demonstrated by the characters he plays in "Big Daddy" and "Grandma's Boy." However, he is on record as having described himself as conservative a number of times. It wouldn't surprise me to learn Covert is an admirer of the Gipper.

Sandler isn't likely a partisan Republican. He performed at the 2004 Republican National Convention and in 2008 donated $21 hundred to Giuliani's presidential campaign. However, Sandler, an Orthodox Jew, has been particularly candid about his support for Israel and it's not unlikely that it shapes his political views.

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You do realize that the Democrats hate Israel. This is highly evidenced nowadays with their support of Iran despite Iran's continuous USA bashing and the Ayatollah's determination to wipe Israel off the map.

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Hyperbole; the doctrinaire conservative's favorite rhetorical device. Your remarks demonstrate you haven't an inkling of credibility as a political observer. I don't support the Iran negotiations. However, to say those who do want to "clear a path for Israel to the gas chambers," as Huckabee put it, is just an ugly misrepresentation and highly ironic coming from the people that accuse liberals of invoking the "race card."

For the record, I accept the finding of some in the academic community that veganism is a neurological disorder. However, Alex's bullying of the waiter is typical of people seduced by the malevolent death cult of libertarianism. It made an otherwise likable character appear thuggish.

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