Topic: Ralph Waite

[LadyVirginia]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waite

Didn't care for The Waltons.  Found him amusing on NCIS.

Waite, the oldest of five children, was born in White Plains, New York, the son of Esther (née Mitchell) and Ralph H. Waite, a construction engineer.[2] Before becoming an actor, Waite, served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1946 to 1948, graduated from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and briefly was a social worker. He earned a master's degree from Yale University Divinity School and was a Presbyterian minister and religious editor at Harper & Row in New York City before deciding on a career in acting.[3]

He was a member of the Peninsula Players summer theater program during the 1963 season.[4]

Ralph Waite was married three times. Two of his marriages ended in divorce. He had three daughters from his first marriage. One of his daughters died when she was nine years old from leukemia. His stepson, Liam Waite, is also an actor.

After fifty years being away from organized religion, Waite returned in 2010 and became an active member of Spirit of the Desert Presbyterian Fellowship in Palm Desert, California.[3]

Waite died February 13, 2014, aged 85
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Waite ran unsuccessfully for Congress in California as a Democrat three times: in 1990 he challenged veteran GOP incumbent Al McCandless in the Riverside County-based 37th district, losing by five percentage points. In 1998 he ran in the special election for the then-Palm Springs-based 44th district left vacant by the death of incumbent Sonny Bono.[6] He was defeated in that election by Mary Bono, Sonny's widow, and lost to her again that November.

On October 21, 1991, Waite introduced former California Governor Jerry Brown prior to the latter's speech announcing his candidacy for the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination

[Libertas]

So that's who Mary Bono beat twice.

[ToddF]

Goodnight, daddy.

[IronDioPriest]

Gosh I loved the Waltons. When you watch an episode now, there is nothing on television that compares to the innocence. The depiction of a self-reliant family slogging through the depression with the joy of the Lord and love of family in their hearts is likely something we'll never see again in entertainment.

Waite may have been a Democrat tool, but his death puts another punctuation on the fading of Americana.

[ToddF]

He was Democrat but he wasn't evil

Unlike Grandpa.  There was a Stalinist nutcase. 

[warpmine]

He was Democrat but he wasn't evil

Unlike Grandpa.  There was a Stalinist nutcase.

He may not have been but responsibility for knowing one's party is absolute. No outs for him.
If you're a Democrat you must embrace the ideology one way or another. Screw them. It wasn't as if John Sr. was in any way like Ralph except they were both males. Ronald Wilson Reagan had enough sense to admit the DemonRat party was a front for Communism and this left. Ralph, you were indeed a tool. Hope pineapples up your butt is something you enjoy cause Lucifer has a good farm connection. Dumbass!