There are plenty of celebrities that the Democratic Party likes for fundraising or publicity reasons that are Scientologists or Scientology-adjacent, so I really don't think the party apparatus minded. Saying vaguely nice things about Castro, like how people didn't die of preventable diseases or how they could read unlike under Batista, was way more disqualifying.
Her praising Scientology is a reason *I* donтАЩt like her, but the Democratic Party insiders likely view that as just doing what you have to do to get elected when the Church of Scientology is near-literally in your districtтАЩs backyard. Not condemning Castro as a communist demon, on the other hand...
interesting. i figured it had more to do with the whole praising scientology thing.
Not a good argument in her favor for sure, but the Cuba stuff got way more traction and thus I think was much more of a factor.
There are plenty of celebrities that the Democratic Party likes for fundraising or publicity reasons that are Scientologists or Scientology-adjacent, so I really don't think the party apparatus minded. Saying vaguely nice things about Castro, like how people didn't die of preventable diseases or how they could read unlike under Batista, was way more disqualifying.
Her praising Scientology is a reason *I* donтАЩt like her, but the Democratic Party insiders likely view that as just doing what you have to do to get elected when the Church of Scientology is near-literally in your districtтАЩs backyard. Not condemning Castro as a communist demon, on the other hand...