Op-ed:

The Dems don’t have a hold on the ‘famous’

By: Diane Sori

Today’s Op-ed is quite different as I was asked by a local campaign office to please compose a list of notable Romney supporters for dissemination. So here is that list and some of the names might come as quite a surprise for while the left loves to tout all the famous so-called ‘Hollywood celebrities’ who support Obama, Mitt Romney has NOT only celebrities from the entertainment field who support him (not all Hollywood leans left contrary to what the Dems believe), but also respected ‘people of name’ from varied important fields.  All these people ‘BELIEVE IN AMERICA’ and believe that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan WILL turn our country around. 

And oh yes, the left tries to say that NO notable Blacks Americans support Romney...well how WRONG they are!

Below is a list of just some of them...

Famous Black Americans who support Mitt Romney: former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice...Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas...black Tea Party speakers Deneen Borelli, Marcus Lloyd, David Webb, Alfonzo Rachel, and Angela McGowan...Florida Congressman LTC Allen West...Former presidential candidate Herman Cain... Congressional candidate Mia Love...political commentators Thomas Sowell and Stacy Swimp...religious leaders Bishop EW Jackson, Bishop TD Jakes, Dr. Tony Evans and Dr. Alveda King (Christian minister, conservative, pro-life activist, author and a niece of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and daughter of the late civil rights activist Rev. A.D. King)....Former Congressman and past Obama campaign manager Arthur Davis...NBA player Karl Malone...Former football star Lynn Swann...Boxing promoter Don King... actor and conservative Christian commentator and writer Joseph C. Phillips...actors Jimmie Walker and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson...Comedian Sheryl Underwood...Rappers LLCool J, 50 Cent and Nicki Minaj

And the list of some of the notables who support Romney/Ryan continues...

Former presidents George Bush and George W. Bush and their wives Barbara and Laura...Vice-President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynn...Vice-President Dan Quayle and his wife Marilyn...Former First Lady Nancy Reagan

Former presidential and VP candidates Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Fred Thompson, Rick Perry, Tim Pawlenty, and Michelle Bachmann

Former top running VP possibilities Senator Marco Rubio and NJ Governor Chris Christie

Former Virginia Governor and former Democrat Douglas Wilder

Former UN Ambassador John Bolton

Astronauts: Retired United States Navy Captain, former astronaut, and last man to walk on the Moon Eugene Cernan...Retired United States Navy Captain and former astronaut Robert Crippen...former astronaut Eric C. Anderson, former astronaut Scott Pace

Medal of Honor recipients: Retired United States Army Sergeant John F. Baker, Jr...Retired United States Marine Corps United States Captain John James McGinty, III...Retired United States Colonel Ola L. Mize...Retired United States Colonel Leo K. Thorsness

Former military leader Retired United States Lieutenant General Claudius E. Watts III

Famous Clergy: Evangelist Jerry Falwell, Jr., Rev. Billy Graham, Televangelist Robert Jeffress, and Televangelist Pat Robertson

Business giants: Lifelong Democrat and former CEO and President of Chrysler Lee Iacocca, Donald Trump chairman and president of The Trump Organization... Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard... Frank J. Bisignano, Chief administrative officer and head of mortgage banking of J.P. Morgan & Co... Kenneth Langone, Co-founder of The Home Depot, former Director of the New York Stock Exchange... John Catsimatidis, Owner, chairman, president and CEO of the Red Apple Group and Gristedes Foods and chairman and CEO of the United Refining Company... James B. Lee, Jr., Vice Chairman of JPMorgan Chase... Scott McNealy, co-founder and CEO of Sun Microsystems...Rupert Murdoch, Founder of News Corporation, Fox Broadcasting Company & HarperCollins...Ross Perot, American billionare business magnate and former Independent party US Presidential candidate...John Schnatter, Owner, founder, and CEO of Papa John's Pizza... Charles R. Schwab, Founder and Chairman of the Charles Schwab Corporation...Jim Walton, son of Sam Walton a founder of Wal-Mart...Arthur Allen, CEO of ASG Software Solutions...Industrialists David and Charles Koch...Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson...energy investor L.E. Simmons...billionaire oil baron Harold Hammand, and many others too numerous to mention 

Writers: H.G. Bissinger, Niall Ferguson, Dean Koontz, and sports columnist for The Daily Beast, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Buzz Bissinger

Singers/Bands: former Democrat and Lynyrd Skynyrd’s frontman Johnny Van Zant... country stars Lane Turner, Trace Adkins, Kid Rock, Ronnie Milsap, Sam Moore, Lee Greenwood, Charlie Daniels, Hank Williams Jr., John Rich, Collin Raye, Taylor Hicks, Jo Dee Messina, Sara Evans... Kelly Clarkson... Gretchen Wilson...Donny and Marie Osmond...guitarist Dave Navarro...Aerosmith's lead guitarist Joe Perry...Aerosmith’s rhythm guitarist Brad Whitford... Vandalls base player Joe Escalante, drummer Chad Sexton...rock vocalist Sammy Hagar...rocker Alice Cooper...Megadeath’s Dave Mustaine... Kiss’s Gene Simmons...punk rocker Dave Smalley...punk rocker Bobby Steele... Randy Owen from Alabama...Ted Nugent...Meat Loaf... Latin Grammy Award-winning Puerto Rican Reggaeton recording artist Daddy Yankee...Avenged Sevenfold...Madison Rising...The Oak Ridge Boys...Lynyrd Skynyrd...Beach Boys...Styx...Rush...Zac Brown Band...3 Doors Down...songwriters Michale Graves and John Ondrasik

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, John Voight, Gary Sinise, Kelsey Grammer, Chuck Norris, Andy Garcia, Lindsay Dean Cain, James Caan, Sylvester Stallone, Tom Selleck, James Woods, Erik Estrada,  Lorenzo Lamas, Jon Cryer, Gerald McRaney, Jerry Bruckheimer, David Zucker, Joe Eszterhas, Powers Booth, Scott Biao, and John Ratzenberger, Vince Vaughn, Lindsay Lohan  Janine Turner, Patricia Heaton, Shawnee Smith, Victoria Jackson, Angie Harmon, Heidi Montag, Connie Stevens, Suzanne Summers, model/actress Cindy Crawford

Comedians: Dennis Miller, Drew Carey, Adam Sandler, Adam Carolla, Jeff Foxworthy, and Paul Rodriquez

Television and radio personalities: Pat Buchanan...Rachel Campos-Duffy...Ann Coulter...Monica Crowley...Elisabeth Hasselbeck...Robert Kagan..Robin Leach...Rush Limbaugh...Meghan McCain...Leah Messer...Heidi Montag...Wayne Allen Root...Mike Rowe...Michael Savage...Glenn Beck

Athletes: Baseball’s Dale Murphy...Basketball’s Greg Anthony, Bob Cousy, and Chris Dudley...Football’s John Elway, Brent Jones, Nick Mangold, and Burgess Owens....Golf’s Jack Nicklaus...and Ice skating/hockey’s Michael Eruzione, Andy Gabel, Dan Jansen, Derek Parra, Dorothy Hamill, Scott Hamilton, and Kristi Yamaguchi

So as the left loves to spout off that nobody of importance supports Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan all I can say is...get your heads out of the kool-ade and start facing the reality that come November 6^th America will be heading in a new direction...back to the way she was always intended to be...’One nation under God with liberty and justice for all’ because baby...the free ride is over!