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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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Lennon was 40 when he was killed, and I highly doubt he supported Reagan or any other politician at the time of his death. He was known to skewer pretty much ALL of them, and probably didn't trust anyone in politics. That he might have preferred Reagan over Carter is nothing. Lots of people did. Carter was ineffective as President, in way over his head, and we all knew it.

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Elliot Mintz, Lennon's publicist and friend (who, coincidentally doesn't have a book or movie to sell), remembers things very differently.

Digitalspy: http://www.digitalspy.com/celebrity/...-says-rep.html

Lennon's longtime rep and former confidant Mintz denied Seaman's assertions and insisted to TMZ that the 'Give Peace A Chance' singer never underwent a radical change in political beliefs.

Mintz said: "From the time I met John in 1971, until the end, all of those things he expressed in 'Imagine' were part of his belief system until the last breath of his life. If you listen to the last recorded interviews that were done with John, you'll hear him express in his own words... his own beliefs... which are virtually identical to the beliefs he held in '71."

Mintz went on to say that anyone claiming Lennon turned his back on progressive politics isn't telling the truth and accused Seaman of presenting a "distorted revisionist view of history".

Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has herself contended that her spouse would have remained an advocate for progressive causes if he had survived his 1980 shooting.