10 Celebs You Wouldn't Expect To Be Republicans

4. Robert Downey Jr

Claims that time spent in prison changed his political views and was seen was attending the 2008 Republican convention. He told the NYT "I have a really interesting political point of view, and it's not always something I say too loud at dinner tables here, but you can't go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary and really understand it and come out a liberal."

3. John Hughes

Director of The Breakfast Club, Planes, Trains & Automobiles and er...Baby's Day Out was described as a "Pants-Down Republican'' by his friend and fellow right winger P. J. O'Rourke. Apparently even Home Alone is a conservative statement about the wasteful and carefree 60's to the 80's when everyone had to grow up with Reagan in charge. O'Rourke says 'Home Alone' is all abut self sufficiency, freedom and responsibility, basically. The kid eats all the junk food in the house then watches all the terrible movies and then he has to bring himself together."
 
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Child of the 80's. Brought up on Star Trek, Video Games and Schwarzenegger, my tastes evolved to encompass all things geeky.