From her bio, it is surprising that Mary Carey is a Republican.

[LoZoccolo]

I was born June 15, 1980 in cleveland Ohio. Both my mother and father were mentally handicapped. My mother was adopted by grandparents so no one really knows for sure what it is, although she is a diagnosed schizophrenic. My father was pulled out by forceps so that caused him to be slow and have a speech problem.

After living with my mom and dad until I was 3 months old, my grandparents took over. My mom and dad got a divorce and my mother and I moved in with my grandparents.

<snip>

When I was in 2nd grade, 7 years old, my grandmother retired and we moved to Ft.Lauderdale, Florida. The following year my grandparents legally adopted me from my mother.

<snip>

Then tragedy struck. My grandfather was diagnosed with lung cancer and 6 months later passed away. I was only 16 years old. At the same time my grandmother's Parkinson's disease was getting much worse. She had it since I was 13.

<snip>

By now my grandmother was even worse. I would go home from school in between classes to check on her. Also all of her savings were gone and we sold our house and moved into a small condo. I decided I needed a part-time job but couldn't find one that had good pay for a few hours.

NOTE: This site has pornography on it.
http://www.marycarey.com/mary/bio.php

I can't imagine what kind of things these Republicans said to her to convince her of their philosophy.

[Lucky Luciano]

1. WHen she ran for governor of CA, she ran as a democrat...

Going to bush's fundraiser may have been a joke...or it could have been a way to make so called moral values people upset at the thugs...or it could just be that as a blond porn-star she perfectly represents the stereotype of the airhead.

[punpirate]

2. Just listening to her mentor...

... Deep Throat: follow the money.... :P

[Tinoire]

11. Gentle correction- She ran as an Independent not Democrat

www.ainews.com/story/5402

vote2003.ss.ca.gov/recall/1-3-candidates.html

You're the second person here today who repeated this. I wonder why people think she ran as a Dem...

Being from CA, I take this mistake personally ;)

[mongo]

26. It was my impression she ran as a dem

This isn’t Carey’s first brush with politics. A couple of years ago, she placed tenth in the race for governor of California, running as a Democrat on a platform that included a tax on breast implants, making lap dances a tax-deductible business expense, and placing live Web cams in every room of the governor’s mansion.

http://radarmagazine.com/web-only/politics/2005/06/theres-something-about-mary.php

I had seen other references that had identified her as a dem before. One of them was an old interview on Hanity and Colmes.

I stand corrected.

[Tinoire]

29. Interesting!

I didn't know that.

Maybe next time she'll run as a Republican :shrug:

[mongo]

30. I was saying that I think you are right

and I'll take the word of adult industry news that she ran as an independent over anything out of fox news anyday - I think the rest of the sources are just regurgitating that.

[TorchTheWitch]

She's not a republican

She's a registered independent and votes democratically. In the first article I saw about her plans to attend the Repuke fundraiser she said something about wanting to go to "find out where they were coming from" or something like that... a sort of "know thine enemy" approach. Personally, I think she's doing it for publicity, period.

[FreedomAngel82]

15. Interesting

Maybe to get some dirt too? If she wrote a tell-all book I'd buy it.

[lenidog]

3. Here is an idea to study

The blonde bimbo deal maybe just a facade. She may be actually an intelligent woman looking to get as much notoriety as she can which equals publicity, which may in her case equal money. Would she get half as much notice if she is a Dem?

[Lucky Luciano]

6. well she is still a bimbo (ask her to solve 5x + 7 = 18)

and it does not take a rocket scientist to realize that it is an amusing publicity stunt to pull off...if her manager says to do it, she will....

It has clearly worked.
Just as the run for governor publicized her existence.

[lenidog]

8. You are right

I mean she is a blonde porn star its not as if they are in short supply. But now she is one who is starting to get her name recognized outside of the porn biz which is something only a handful of porn stars have ever done.

[BiggJawn]

31. X=2.2?

Guess I'm a Bimbo, then. I had to use the Ti....

If I'm a Bimbo, why aren't there more people wanting to have sex with me? :-(

[FreedomAngel82]

16. I really don't know about that with the democratic party

We're pretty tolerant people so I don't know. :shrug: It's just so silly because the republicans run on "moral family values" and all that. :shrug: I know some of the moderates probably don't care, but in my other post I mentioned how I watched the Olbermann video and she seemed to have her head on her shoulders. She wasn't a total bimbo or anything like that. I've seen her before on Howard Stern's show and she wasn't that way either and was the same way as she was on Olbermann's show. I wonder what she's up to as well. She said in the Olbermann video she couldn't talk about stuff but she surely was talking that's for sure. And I wonder what got her to be a republican a few days ago.

[lenidog]

18. I figure it this way if she is a Dem no one would notice because

everyone expects it, but if she comes out as a Republican she gets tons of publicity. Which is exactly what happened. Look at the mileage she has gotten just on DU.

[SoDesuKa]

4. Mary Carey is a Climber

Who knows what her real political values are, if she even has any? She's an actress looking to make a name for herself. She doesn't care what you say, just so long as you're talking about her.

[Gabi Hayes]

5. if you saw her on Olbermann, she said she's been a rethug for....

two or three days

she's a VERY good marketeer

that would be about it

[TorchTheWitch]

9. no she isn't

she's a VERY good marketeer

But Mark Kulkis is.

From her bio, seems like throughout her adult life everything she has done was decided by someone else. Other strippers told her she should strip, so she did. Her agent told her she should do porn (when she actually wanted to do feature dancing), so she did. Mark Kulkis told her she should run for governor, so she did. Without someone else steering her around, she'd whack into a wall.

I found this very enlightening about how dumb she is:

My goal is to keep doing this and to do some acting, try to cross over to mainstream and live a happy life.

Cross-over into mainstream? How very delusional.

[Gabi Hayes]

12. point taken....of whom does she remind one? this person, perhaps?

[Lucky Luciano]

13. Oh man...that clip is both gross and absolutely hilarious! haha nt

[lenidog]

17. They all have that same delusion and fail

Most of them sooner or later try and break into mainstream acting if they are lucky will get a couple bit roles on a tv show and either go back to porn or retire. The only one who has had even minimal success is Traci Lords.

[lenidog]

19. Its making her money for now so go with it

If it wasn't for the brilliancy of either her agent or PR firm Anna Kournikova would still be another typical looking blonde Russian girl. Now she is a household name with a back account in the millions and she has yet to still win a professional tennis match. Last time I heard she was ranked a 120 in the world.

[TorchTheWitch]

20. good point

Major notariety usually comes from the brilliance of whoever is marketing a person. Look at Britney Spears... certainly she's attractive, but she has zero talent.

Rather sad actually. I miss the days when someone got notariety based on their own talents and achievements. These days, you just have to get lucky on getting the right management and be able to follow directions.

[lenidog]

22. Its all a matter of perception.

We have reached the point where you don't even need a modicum of talent or skill to be famous. Hell! All you need to do in todays world is look mildly attractive and exist to become famous case in point Paris Hilton. I mean she was becoming famous by merely existing and have the right agent and PR people.

[leftofthedial]

7. I mean this in the nicest possible way

she's a whore

she's whatever she needs to be to put money in her "manager's" pocket.

[GreenArrow]

25. she ought to be a natural in politics then

.

[Lorien]

10. It seems that she specializes in girl on girl films

not aware of the GOP position on lesbians, I guess?

[FreedomAngel82]

14. Me either

Maybe it's the money? :shrug: From her interview on Olbermann's show she seemed like a nice person who has her head on her shoulders and isn't a fundie. :shrug: On the show she said she's just been a republican for a couple of days. Maybe because they're in power now and control everything?

[TorchTheWitch]

21. of COURSE it's about the money

Why else does anyone get into sex work? Because it's glamorous? Fun? As a sex worker, I promise you, it's all about the money... period. Those of us that are ok with notariety for what we do are the biggest whores of all... because we care not what the whole world thinks of what we do for money, and are willing to sacrifice our future relationships and reputation for that (and often our own sense of self). Personally, I would prefer not to be well known for what I do for that reason. It wasn't even until a few years ago that I was willing to "come out of the closet" at all. Realistically, nobody takes you seriously when they find out you're in this business. You have to want the money enough to sacrifice that.

That said, anyone that gets that much notariety for being a sex worker will NEVER be able to go mainstream, and it's totally delusional to entertain the notion that it's a possibility. Sure, you may be able to get into other kinds of work, but you will ALWAYS be known as a former sex worker. Even Traci Lords who probably was able to "cross-over" more than anyone else will still never be known as "the actress, Traci Lords" but "the former porn star, Traci Lords".

[housewolf]

23. I have a hunch...

after seeing her on Olberman, that she's just funnin' everyone and hunting some publicity. Plus she may be taking on the Repubs for their so-called "values".

[LoZoccolo]

24. There's something else that would fit in with this.

If I'm not mistaken, Adult Video News was the first outlet to cover the fact that she was going to go, a while back. It seemed like it was very calculated, like her manager informed the magazine about it to make a big deal out of it just like companies send public relations faxes to news outlets.

[chaska]

27. She's too young to have much of a real understanding of politics.

It's publicity ... and probably a boyfriend thing. You will recall she had a date for the occasion.

[Fleshdancer]

28. This woman has lived a hard life it sounds like

Granted, no one has an easy life, we all have problems. Damn though, she grew up dealing with loss after loss.

Whether she chooses to be a Republican or a Democrat doesn't really matter, does it? The harsh reality is that a porn star - a female porn star can not be elected into office in America. The irony is that she has sold her self out far less than the majority of people in DC and yet they are laughing at her when it should be the other way around.