Republican Star Power

I don't know if you know this, but if you make a campaign contribution on the federal level, it's a matter of public record. Anyone can go to the right source and find out exactly how much money you gave, and to which candidates.

In fact, if you're curious you can find out not only which celebrities gave money to political candidates, but how much they gave -- to the dollar. So I decided to look around and see which famous people had given money to political candidates and special interest groups.

In the process, I discovered that some celebrities had given 100% of their money to Republicans, and I thought it might be instructive to make a list of them and post it here.

They say that you can tell a lot about a person by who they hang out with -- how much can you tell about the current Republican party by the people on this list? First, to make this list you had to have given 100% of your money to the GOP. If you gave as little as 1% to any Democrat or to any special interest group whatsoever, you don't qualify.

The first thing you'll notice is that, with only a couple of exceptions, this is a pretty lame bunch. Only a handful of them have any real talent -- the rest are a bunch of second-rate hacks, schlockmeisters and has-beens.

Here is the celebrity face of the Republican Party (and what a face it is!):

1) Roy Acuff
2) Bob Barker
3) David Blaine
4) Julie Bowen
5) Candace Bushnell
6) Drew Carey
7) Tom Clancy
8) Shannen Doherty
9) Robert Duvall
10) Joe Eszterhas
11) Jose Feliciano
12) Jeff Foxworthy
13) Eva Gabor
14) Kathie Lee Gifford
15) Sammy Hagar
16) Merle Haggard
17) Tippi Hedren
18) Charlton Heston
19) Arianna Huffington
20) Toby Keith
21) Dean Koontz
22) Swoosie Kurtz
23) David Limbaugh
24) Art Linklater
25) Heather Locklear
26) Traci Lords
27) Wink Martindale
28) Ted McGinley
29) Dr. Phil McGraw
30) Vince McMahon
31) Ricardo Montalban
32) Jim Nabors
33) Chuck Norris
34) Maury Povich
35) Prince
36) Cesar Romero
37) Jeri Ryan
38) Rick Schroder
39) Traci Scoggins
40) Paul Shaffer
41) Jaclyn Smith
42) Kevin Sorbo
43) Robert Stack
44) George Strait
45) Dr. Herman Tarnower
50) Rip Torn
51) Randy Travis
52) Alex Trebek
53) James Woods
54) Tammy Wynette
55) Dwight Yoakam

Boy -- what star power!

Tom Moran