You have to be of relatively advanced age to appreciate the grotesque irony that has just been reported. It turns out — oh, my God (that’s OMG for those who live their lives through email) — that hippie-peacenik icon John Lennon was a closet Republican!
And not just some RINO-type, country-club, apologetic, liberal-media-ass-kissing, non-threatening Republican, but a Reagan supporter!
Yes, pick yourself up off the floor. This amazing fact is revealed by Lennon musical sidekick Fred Seaman. Seaman makes his startling disclosure in the upcoming documentary Beatles Stories, in an interview with the flick’s director Seth Swirsky. Seaman revealed that in his more mature life (that is, by the late 1970s), Lennon felt embarrassed by his younger radicalism, and relished debating leftists, including Seaman’s uncle, an "old-time communist."
Lennon said of Reagan, whom he had met at a sporting event, that he would have voted for the politician had he been a US citizen.
All of this inspires me to update Lennon’s signature song, “Imagine”:
Imagine there’s no commies.
It’s easy if you try.
No damn liberals
To tax us on the sly.
Imagine all the money
In our hands to stay!
Imagine all the countries —
It isn’t hard to do —
Living in total freedom
And of religion too.
Imagine all the people
Trading goods in peace.
You may say I’m a right-winger
But I’m not the only one.
I hope the leftists grow up
So the world can be as one.
