Conservatism Lives!

Ron Silver died today at 62 from a battle with cancer (full story here). Silver was a rare conservative voice in the otherwise strongly liberal Hollywood. Silver had been a long time Democrat and outspoken liberal until the terrorist attacks of September 11th. After the attacks, he registered as an independent and became an outspoken proponent of the war on terror and of George W. Bush. My personal favorite quote from Silver was in reference to Michael Moore. In an interview with the AP in 2004, Silver said, “He’s a charlatan in a clown suit.” We couldn’t have said it better ourselves, Ron. Your voice of reason in the barren wasteland of political ideology we call Hollywood will be greatly missed here at Conservatism Lives.