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**QEoMi752** · 07-04-2011, 03:56 AM

Was the Left's all-time favorite icon a closet Conservative and Reaganite?

I doubt it.

But it's sure fun to "Imagine" just how much the thought of that must make the Lefties squirm. Hee hee.

Lennon was, what, in his early forties when he was killed? That's about the time normal people start to mellow and think back on what they've done so far. They realize, probably for the first time, that they aren't going to live forever and begin to focus on what's really important in life.

http://www.rttnews.com/Content/Enter...d=1657294&SM=1

John Lennon Was Reagan Supporter By The End Of His Life

6/30/2011 6:33 PM ET TOP

(RTTNews) - A former personal assistant to John Lennon, Fred Seaman, says that, near the end of his life, Lennon had grown more conservative in his political views.

Seaman says that Lennon supported Reagan over Carter in the 1980 presidential race: "John, basically, made it very clear that if he were an American he would vote for Reagan because he was really sour on Jimmy Carter . . . He'd met Reagan back, I think, in the '70s at some sporting event . . . Reagan was the guy who had ordered the National Guard, I believe, to go after the young demonstrators in Berkeley, so I think that John maybe forgot about that . . . He did express support for Reagan, which shocked me."

Seaman makes the claim in a new documentary, Beatles Stories, which is centered on interviews of 1960s rock stars who knew the Beatles.

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QEoMi752 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 458 Senior Member	Report: John Lennon was a Reagan supporter; Lennon publicist says not true Was the Left's all-time favorite icon a closet Conservative and Reaganite? I doubt it. But it's sure fun to "Imagine" just how much the thought of that must make the Lefties squirm. Hee hee. Lennon was, what, in his early forties when he was killed? That's about the time normal people start to mellow and think back on what they've done so far. They realize, probably for the first time, that they aren't going to live forever and begin to focus on what's really important in life. http://www.rttnews.com/Content/Enter...d=1657294&SM=1 John Lennon Was Reagan Supporter By The End Of His Life 6/30/2011 6:33 PM ET TOP (RTTNews) - A former personal assistant to John Lennon, Fred Seaman, says that, near the end of his life, Lennon had grown more conservative in his political views. Seaman says that Lennon supported Reagan over Carter in the 1980 presidential race: "John, basically, made it very clear that if he were an American he would vote for Reagan because he was really sour on Jimmy Carter . . . He'd met Reagan back, I think, in the '70s at some sporting event . . . Reagan was the guy who had ordered the National Guard, I believe, to go after the young demonstrators in Berkeley, so I think that John maybe forgot about that . . . He did express support for Reagan, which shocked me." Seaman makes the claim in a new documentary, Beatles Stories, which is centered on interviews of 1960s rock stars who knew the Beatles.
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