Thank you good sire.
I don't mind you falling asleep
my wife as I begin to snore

Sampled some of the "discussion" below. Nothing there but the same garbage I find on Yahoo News comment threads and AM hate radio.
What a waste of the thread.
CB
Good Times, Noodle Salad

George W Bush (drunk and idiot) + domineering mamma Barbara.

Donald Trump and the entire Republican party - bunch of Fascists!

How things change over time, once it was "If you disagree with me, you are a Communist'.. Now that time is over it has become "If you disagree with me you are a racist".. wonder what the next excuse will be?

The only real political person that the movie does reference is Senator McCarthy, who was a conservative Republican. The Lincoln references, and Raymond himself say that both Iselin and Jordan are Republicans, with Jordan being more liberal.
Actually, the only reference to Republicans made by Raymond in the film was to Holborn Gaines, when he told his mother that he was going to work for him.
MOM: That Communist?
Raymond: He's not a Communist, Mother; he's a Republican.
That might not be an exact quote, but it's pretty close.

This thread is nothing more than people declaring their own personal political beliefs. The Iselins have nothing to do with any of our first families. Nobody here is bothering to cite examples from the movie or from the people they mention.
The only real political person that the movie does reference is Senator McCarthy, who was a conservative Republican. The Lincoln references, and Raymond himself say that both Iselin and Jordan are Republicans, with Jordan being more liberal.
Take your political vitriol to POLITICO and stop wasting imdb threads with political nothingness.
At least there will be plenty implied.

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How about John Lennon and Yoko Ono?
(yes, mother - every time I heard Laurance Harvey address Angela Lansbury as such, I cringed)
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

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Obama and Valerie Jarrett
Get me a bromide! And put some gin in it!

Marilyn and Dan Quayle

Eleanor & Franklin

Do they have to be a couple? I'd pick Michelle Bachman and Senator "Legitimate Rape" or the politician (house rep?) who believes yoga leads to satanism or, actually, any of the many other wingnut Republicans out there.

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Ron & Nancy still drive you liberals crazy because you could never put them in a box and humiliate them like you so love to do.

Definitely Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
She manipulated his every move!!
Dorothy stop that, Mr. Ha Ha`s lookin at you!!

"McCarthy didnt get married until hed already been a Senator for years".
I think McCarthy was widely rumored to have been a homosexual and his getting married as an effort to deflect all such allegations.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

Johnny Iselin was obviously based - at least roughly - on Senator McCarthy.
Mrs. Iselin and her relationship with her husband bear no relationship at all to the real world Sen. McCarthy. McCarthy didn't even get married until he'd already been a Senator for years, and had already embarked on his anti-communist crusade.
The puppet-of-his-wife element was a fictional invention; as of course was the whole story, which - other than the anti-red grandstanding - had no similarity to Sen. McCarthy's life.

In a modern vein, how about Dr. Laura Schlessinger and her son Deryk? The super-patriot and the war-hero with skeletons in their closets. I'm surprised the remake didn't go this route, but the filmmakers would have been sued for sure

Mr. and Mrs. McCarthy of course. I would have thought it would be obvious to anyone who knows about the era.
"Nothings gonna change my world!"

I have to agree about the Obamas! I say this from the standpoint of a 60+-year-old person who has been through a lot of presidents and their wives!
How can it be racist if he's half-white?!
(W)hat are we without our dreams?
Making sure our fantasies
Do not overpower our realities. ~ RC

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