Liberal Tough Guy is NOT an oxymoron - Post pictures of your favorite Liberal Tough Guys or Gals

[MrScorpio]

Humphrey Bogart


Gov. Ann Richards


Edward R. Murrow


MAJ GEN Smedley Butler

[Nitrogenica]

1. He'll intellectually punch.

[Bicoastal]

4. Remember, he has also ridden the mighty Moon Worm!

[Nitrogenica]

8. LOLS

[robinlynne]

2. I love this thread!

[Drunken Irishman]

3. Paul Newman.

Rosey Grier



Howard Dean :)



Michael Collins

[flvegan]

5. Bill Goldberg

Last I checked, he was a pretty liberal dude.

And Hulk Hogan has endorsed Obama...

[texasleo]

6. Not sure if Henry Rollins is a liberal,

but I wouldn't mind throwing him into a room full of young Republicans.

[Justitia]

15. I'd say so. A smart & entertaining one at that. -eom

[casus belli]

38. Absolutely Progressive. Love the guy. n/t

[Faygo Kid]

7. Here's a few more. You dirty rat. I hate spunk.

[Ichingcarpenter]

12. Webb and Sinatra ........ Not liberals sorry

Sinatra gave $4 million to Reagan election.
Webb voted against the liberals on FISA

[Faygo Kid]

18. Sinatra changed. But he was adamant about civil rights. Webb hates Bush.

Those are good recommendations, although I concede your points. Especially with Webb. But I'm old enough to remember Sinatra in 1960, not 1980. Frank was powerful on civil rights when it was desperately needed. So, I cut him some slack here, and he deserves it. Webb? I guess you're right. I still like his willingness to spit in Bush's face, though. W. is a physical coward, and his encounter with Webb proves it.

[Ichingcarpenter]

29. He may hate Bush but he's no Liberal he's a moderate.

Hell, you could have pick Reagan as a liberal at one time.

Everything else was an excellent pick, I just couldn't take those two as liberals.

[liberal1973]

22. Well actually

Frank Sinatra supported JFK big time. So yeah I would say Sintra is-was a liberal.

[Ichingcarpenter]

30. Wrong he was a buddy of Nixon

and for the next 23 years he was a conservative or an opportunist.
Frank Sinatra became a Nixon buddy, but early in Nixon’s presidency, his staff debated whether it was appropriate to have Sinatra sing at the White House.

"I am sure that many of our friends in the entertainment field would think it wrong to have a former anti-Nixon person entertain at the White House," presidential aide Dwight Chapin wrote in a 1970 memo.

But Sinatra did perform, and he was soon signing his hand-written notes to the president, "Affectionately, Francis," while Nixon, ever the stiff, signed a photo of the two, "Richard Nixon."
http://fieldnotes.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/28/485092.aspx

[liberal1973]

50. I don't think so

As a matter of fact Sinatra had a number of fundraisers for JFK. He coined the song High Hopes.

[Justitia]

9. Charles "Conservatives Make Me Sick" Barkley

[melody]

10. I kinda think this guy qualifies :)

[tchunter]

11. heres a couple

adam kokesh



pat tillman



eugene v. debs

[blondeatlast]

13. Steve Nash; vocal war and Bush opponent, even in the redness of Arizona--oh, yes!

[Justitia]

14. "You talkin' to me?"

[leftchick]

16. My two favorites.....

[Justitia]

17. Yummy! And he sings too! - Tim McGraw

[Justitia]

19. "I coulda been a contender" - Marlon Brando

[AnnieBW]

20. Don't forget Viggo!

Viggo Mortensen

[kineneb]

21. Don't Forget Molly (RIP)!

[Faygo Kid]

23. Yep, I thought of her, too. As tough a liberal as they come.

Loved her column on not backing Hillary, too.

Wish she was still with us. Bet she would like to be here for this one, too.

[El Pinko]

24. Problem is that liberalism has traditionally been a middle-of-the-road, compromise philosophy

That's why I'm a leftist or a socialist. I don't make any bones about where I stand, which is that I do believe that it is government's responsibility to ensure that everyone in a society who works for a living can make a living wage and have decen housing and health care, not kowtow to corporate interests.

Liberalism, by contrast, is not adversarial to corporate power and is happy to beg for corporate crumbs while enacting the bare minimum of aid to the poorest of the poor. It's better than conservatism, but only by degrees.



So here are some great socialist-leftist AMERICAN PATRIOT heroes.


Eugene Debs




Ed Asner




Zach De La Rocha




Woody Guthrie




Mother Jones

[Kitty Herder]

27. Excellent choices!!!

:yourock:

[noamnety]

31. excellent post

I considered posting some veterans for peace friends, but I know one in particular would hand my ass to me on a platter if I listed him in a thread of "liberals". :)

[El Pinko]

37. Just to clarify, I'm not expressing hostility towards liberals or liberalism.

It's just that I am *NOT* a liberal.

I know that in the US, an extreme right-wing nation, it's an act of some courage to define oneself as a "liberal", even though what we call "liberal" is "moderate" almost anywhere else in the world.

I just want it to be known that there are more than a few of us here who, rather than defining ourselves in terms of the US's narrow, center-right to ultra-right political spectrum, look at what exists outside the US, and the political movements that once prospered within the US, and define ourselves in terms of what we think is right, rather than just aligning ourselves with one of our dominant twin political parties.

Obviously, this board is predominantly liberal and I'm sure on most economic issues I fall to the far left here. I respect the liberal majority here and their efforts against the fascist GOP.

But it is my fervent hope that eventually Americans will reawaken to the fact that there are feasible political philosophies OTHER than Stalinism to the left of American liberalism. Look to Scandinavia, where democratic socialism has created a good standard of living for the vast majority of people. Look to America, back when the New Deal destroyed the crushing rich-poor gap of the Gilded Age. It's clear that the modern democratic party does not have the political will to make that happen again, so it's up to conscientious people to help move the party back to its New Deal roots, or support candidates who will bring about the real changes that need to be made for our country to have a strong working and middle class again.

I just object to "liberalism" being equated to "left", when it is a centrist/moderate philosophy. It's only seen as "left" in the US, because union-busting, McCarthyism & red-scares, massive amounts of propaganda touting the virtues of the "free market" as the solution to EVERYTHING have decimated US leftist movements. By appropriating a lot of socialist ideas into the New Deal, FDR also effectively muted the then-burgeoning socialist movements. It's sad that Americans today are so unaware of the fact that in the first half of the 20th century, the socialists were a real political force to be reckoned with, and think of socialism as fringe or something that only exists in far-off Marxist basket-case nations.

[Greyhound]

35. Good point and excellent choices. n/t

[The Straight Story]

25. This woman:

:)

[chelaque liberal]

26. Who is she?

[The Straight Story]

32. My wife

:)

[Kitty Herder]

28. Latin American liberal tough guys......

Kinda controversial, I know, but that's me.

[Greyhound]

33. Here's a real tough guy.

and another

[Initech]

34. JFK was quite a badass.

While most people, like Bush who were doing everything they could to avoid service, JFK had a bad back and couldn't serve in the military. But he found some loopholes and had his dad pull some strings to get him in.

[elleng]

36. Wes Clark in Kosovo:

http://securingamerica.com/taxonomy/term/24

[casus belli]

39. Have to include one from my state.

What makes this even sweeter is how many Conservatives probably think he plays political ball in their court.

[casus belli]

40. Not your typical "tough-guy" but undeniably tough as nails...

[noamnety]

41. Muhammad Ali

"No, I am not going 10,000 miles to help murder kill and burn other people to simply help continue the domination of white slavemasters over dark people the world over. This is the day and age when such evil injustice must come to an end."
—Muhammad Ali

[Dukkha]

42. some in your face types

Keith Olbermann


Arianna Huffington


Jello Biafra


Al Jourgensen


Janeane Garofalo

[orleans]

43. .

dave matthews


pearl jam


R.E.M.


Alec Baldwin


michael douglas


michael moore


do crazy liberal tough guys count?

[Drunken Irishman]

44. Can't forget LBJ, a true tough-guy cowboy.

I know some here on DU don't like him, but he truly was a liberal. The guy was the last real New Deal Democrat to even come close to the White House.

[TheUniverse]

45. IMO LBJ can enjoy burning in hell.

58,209 American soldiers dead, Millions of civilians dead all for a lie.

[Drunken Irishman]

46. Whatever.

LBJ did more to advance social causes than any president outside of FDR. The Vietnam War was trash, but I truly believe Johnson was deceived into a false sense of what was going on there. He was ignorant and that was his ultimate downfall. But I do believe, unlike the current leader, every loss ate him up inside. There is a reason he died of alcoholism.

[CalebHayes]

47. Sitting Bull

[lildreamer316]

48. This:

[DFW]

49. Not movie idols or pop stars, but:

and

[Echo In Light]

51. Scott "Wino" Weinrich

Wino has been fronting one Black Sabbath inspired, drug guzzling underground band or another since the late 70s: {I actually have Saint Vitus tattoos}

The Obsessed
Saint Vitus
Spirit Caravan
Place of Skulls
The Hidden Hand





Wino talks politics:
http://fuzzrock.com/news/news.asp?NewsID=6389