Kelsey Grammer to Run for Office?

[The Straight Story]

Kelsey Grammer to Run for Office?

Actor Kelsey Grammer has decided to follow in the footsteps of Arnold Schwarzenegger and run for public office.

The star and long-term Republican insists his willingness to discuss his troubled past - which includes alcohol and cocaine addictions - will disarm his opponents.

He says, "It's a notion I have about the future - to run for office, to do the world some good.

"Well the idea that we can do the world some good is a little nuts, the world tends to take care of itself.

http://www.kget.com/entertainment/story.aspx?content_id=8422129D-FD8C-40F0-AAB7-1A00B2942AA7

[Democrats_win]

1. Oh yeah, that´s what we need another Coke-head f*ck-up.

[VolcanoJen]

14. No shit.

What in the hell makes these actor-types think they're even remotely qualified to serve and lead the people?

It's maddening. At least Reagan got a little political experience under his belt before really going for big offices.

Hey, Kelsey... how's about you run for SAG President and leave the rest of us out of your ambition? Thanks.

[Cleita]

16. Yeah and he's a Republican too.

Fits the profile it seems.

[acmavm]

2. Yeah, that old babysitter scandal ought to be ready to come

out of the closet.

[Wickerman]

3. Do the world some good?

either don't run or don't run as a Republican. Don't recall much good ever coming out of that camp.

[ClusterFreak]

4. I loved Frasier, I love Sideshow Bob....

...but Kelsey Grammer is an idiot.

[Gruenemann]

9. I love the show BUT

The character of Frasier is a total dickhead. Must have been easy to act it for him.

[AndyA]

5. Frasier For President! LOL!

We've already got a freak, drug addicted, alcoholic Republican in public office. That's more than enough. No thanks.

Go back to acting, where you can be an idiot and everybody thinks it's funny.

[AX10]

6. That sex scandal will come out again should he run.

Let's crush this talentless right wing SOB anyway possible!

[noonwitch]

7. Sideshow Bob!

That's my favorite Kelsey Grammar character. Bob is much funnier than Frasier.

If he runs for office, everyone will always think of Sideshow Bob running for mayor of Springfield, and cheating.

[underpants]

8. Cue the Sideshow Bob quotes

Sideshow Bob: Because you need me, Springfield. Your guilty conscience may force you to vote Democratic, but deep down inside you secretly long for a cold-hearted Republican to lower taxes, brutalize criminals, and rule you like a king. That's why I did this: to protect you from yourselves. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a city to run.
Judge: Bailiffs, place the mayor under arrest.
Sideshow Bob: What? Oh yes, all that stuff I did.

[CatholicEdHead]

11. If they get permission to use the Simpsons audio from that track

it will really hurt in any ads for his opponents.

[Fenris]

12. Art mirrors reality

or something like that.

[underpants]

24. No children have ever meddled with the Republican Party .....

No children have ever meddled with the Republican Party and lived to tell about it

[Mandate My Ass]

10. what is it with these people. He was a total drug-addled mess

He almost flushed his own life down the toilet due to severe drug abuse and addiction but now he thinks he can save the world and should be able to tell others what to do and what not to do. What is it with celebrity repukes? :shrug:

p.s. I don't believe George Clooney or Viggo Mortensen or any other actor should run for public office, because nothing in their life (besides possibly press conferences) has prepared them for governance. Speaking out, that's different. Let it rip. But for chrissakes I don't see what Sonny Bono, the Gropenator, Fred Grandy or Jessie Ventura ever accomplished for the country, or their constituents.

[rucky]

13. he is a moron in real life.

so unlike Frasier. You'd think playing that role for 15 years, he'd have learned something.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

15. Please PLEASE run as a Repub! The perfect GOP candidate.

Substance abuse and impulse control problems, sex scandals... and no doubt will become a "reformed" sanctimonious hypocrite as soon as candidacy is declared...

[NewJeffCT]

22. You have to remember, though

Since Grammar is a Republican, he can write it off as a "youthful indiscretion" if it happened before today.

[Botany]

17. go for it K.G.

[K-W]

18. I imagine theres a reason he plays arrogant nitwits well.... EOM

[RedStateShame]

19. Get a job, Frasier.

Does the Republican Party send out pamphlets to out-of-work celebrities? And where's the outrage when these has-beens start harping on issues? Ted Nugent adopted a teenage girl from Hawaii so he could fuck her, and HE gets to promote the "Values Party?!" Steven Baldwin gets to thump his chest about saving children from a strip club in his neighbor when he surely did more cultural damage in "BioDome?!" Fucking "Biodome?!!"

Somebody should send these people where all right-leaning out-of-work celebrities: PAX. Yes, Dennis Miller, I am looking in your general direction.

:rant:

[Jara sang]

20. His life sounds like an episode of 'The Sapranos'

Grammer has been married three times. His first marriage to dance instructor Doreen Alderman spanned eight years, from 1982 to 1990, and produced one child, a daughter named Spencer. His second marriage, to stripper Leigh-Anne Csuhany, lasted one year (1992–1993). Grammer claims she was abusive and that, after talk of divorce, she attempted suicide by overdosing on Tylenol and wine, which resulted in the miscarriage of their child. Since August of 1997, Grammer has been married to Camille Donatacci, a former nude model. They have a son and a daughter together via a surrogate mother. Grammer has one additional daughter, Greer, born in 1992, with hair and makeup stylist Barrie Buckner.

Born in St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, Grammer moved to New Jersey with his mother after his parents' divorce. In 1968, when Kelsey was 13, his father, whom he had only met twice, was murdered on the front lawn of his home in the Virgin Islands; in 1975, his sister was raped and murdered after leaving a Red Lobster restaurant in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Kelsey, who was 20 at the time and enrolled in the Juilliard acting program, stopped attending classes and was expelled. In 1980, his twin half-brothers were killed in a shark attack while SCUBA diving.

In 1998, Grammer filed a lawsuit against Internet Entertainment Group, which Grammer claimed had stolen from his home a videotape of him having sex with a woman. IEG countersued Grammer, denying they were in possession of such a tape, and Grammer's suit was eventually dropped.

Grammer began drinking at age 9 and became a frequent abuser of alcohol. In 1988 he was sentenced to 30 days in jail for drunk driving and cocaine possession. He was again arrested for cocaine possession in August 1990 and sentenced to three years' probation, fined $500 and given 300 hours' community service. In January 1991 he was given an additional two years' probation for violating his original probation through additional cocaine use. In September 1996 he flipped his car while under the influence of drugs or alcohol and subsequently checked in to the Betty Ford Clinic for 30 days.

In the mid-'90s Grammer was accused of statutory rape by the parents of his child’s 15-year-old babysitter, but a New Jersey grand jury declined to indict due to lack of physical evidence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelsey_Grammer

[noamnety]

21. He's got my vote!

"Well the idea that we can do the world some good is a little nuts, the world tends to take care of itself."

"My frankness and openness about my past could probably benefit me though."

I don't know about you all, but the first thing I ask myself when someone is running for office is: How could this benefit them? I like to know that they won't get distracted from the important business of improving their own lot by worrying about how their policies affect the rest of the world.

[Beelzebud]

23. Actors need to stay out of elections... I'm sick of it..

We get so much shit for the "Hollywood Left", but there is one huge difference between us and them.

We simply listen to our stars.

They elect theirs...

Reagan, Swartenegger, Sonny Bono, etc.

[EC]

25. what's really funny is that most of the Republican base

probably never watched Frasier or didn't like it...