Christopher Walken IS Running For President
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Elections, General Politics“Our great country is in a terrible downward spiral. We’re outsourcing jobs, bankrupting social security, and losing lives at war. We need to focus on what’s important– paying attention to our children, our citizens, our future. We need to think about improving our failing educational system, making better use of our resources, and helping to promote a stable, safe, and tolerant global society. It’s time to be smart about our politics. It’s time to get America back on track.”
People, this is for real. Apparently Walken is going to be running as an Independent, and already has “small offices in New York, Alabama, Florida, California, Washington, and Colorado.”
So why haven’t we heard more about this?
The risk of running early is that the support can boom too fast and die out by the time we hit the primaries. Our goal right now is spreading the word and getting people interested. The major media are bloodhounds, and once they get wind, Mr. Walken will be forced to start actively campaigning to balance in inevitable onslaught of criticism from opponents. For the time being, while Mr. Walken is finishing some film projects and we’re establishing our campaign, we’ll stick to word-of-mouth communication. Believe me, it works very well.
Personally I think this is a smart strategy, but we’ll see how serious Walken really is.
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August 14th, 2005 at 10:03 pm
If he’s unwilling to reform the Dems, he’s most likely to split them even worse than Nader.
“losing lives at war” implies he’d rather lose lives, like 9/11, while NOT at war? Sounds like an anti-war, non Christian, therefore Dem variant.
Nixon was elected in 1968 because of Wallace.
Jon Anderson did NOT stop Reagan from being elected in 1980 (but did stop Ed Clark, Libertarian, from establishing a real party)
Clinton was elected in 1992 because Ross Perot sucked off enough Rep-ish votes.
Bush was elected in 2000 because Nader sucked off enough Dem-ish votes.
Smart strategy though, if he wants to be independent.
August 14th, 2005 at 10:14 pm
According to the United States Secretary of State’s office, Christopher Walken has not yet filed any notices of eligibility or paid any fees to get his name on any ballots.
I really think this whole thing is a sham.
August 14th, 2005 at 11:24 pm
[...] Big news, guys. Apparently the story is true, and we should all vote for Walkin in the next election!!! donklephant.com/2005/08/14/chr… [...]
August 15th, 2005 at 1:06 am
Give the guy a break. It’s 2005. All that you mention can be done later if enough support can be mustered. Right now he’s looking to see if it’s there. With all due respect, give it some time before you cry “sham.”
And by the way, I’m more than willing to admit I’m wrong about all this, but I think it’s too early to tell if the guy is lying or not. The website (if you read it) seems very serious and very consistent. Let’s wait and see.
August 15th, 2005 at 12:53 pm
“Clinton was elected in 1992 because Ross Perot sucked off enough Rep-ish votes.”
Actually, this is a bit of conventional wisdom that Republicans have used to convince themselves that the Bush 2000 election was no different than Clinton in 92. However, exit polls showed that Perot voters were split nearly 50-50 on which candidate they would have voted for if Perot wasn’t in the race, despite Republican claims that they would have all gone for Bush.
August 15th, 2005 at 2:21 pm
The site is a hoax. I spoke to Maura Buxbaum at ID PR, Walken’s publicist. She said that Walken “has no aspirations for public office.”
http://www.rizzn.com/2005/08/walken-for-president-2008-is-confirmed.asp
August 15th, 2005 at 10:38 pm
[...] My apologies for helping spread this rumor, but it seemed weird and cool enough that it could possibly be true. [...]
November 15th, 2005 at 12:57 pm
Well Walken is running for president with or without his consent cause i just nominated him
March 6th, 2006 at 10:33 am
OMFG! What is it with Actors and Politics? I mean I know they are both basically the same thing but one pays a hell of a lot more then the other :D
April 8th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
I can also confirm this is a hoax. Chris wrote to his fans personally back in the fall to say that he isn’t running for president. You can see his letter here
http://www.walkenfanclub.com/images/walkensept05letter.jpg
Also, his agent Toni Howard also spoke about it to the LA Times
http://www.azcentral.com/ent/pop/articles/0819walkenforprez0819.html
It would be cool if it were true, but it isn’t. Sorry
Candy Rosenbaum
Walken Fan Club
January 16th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
I believe this is just a ploy to sell T-shirts that say”Walkin for President 2008″, nothing more.