Bruce Willis' choice of parts mirrors his opinions

Bruce Willis is one of Hollywood's highest earning and most influential stars. In addition he keeps a high profile concerning his political affiliation. Bruce Willis has, in a variety of contexts, demonstrated his support of all the Republican presidential candidates ever since his breakthrough as a film actor in the mid-80s. He has also time after another let his choice of roles mirror values identical with his political image. The contrary holds, of course, as well - it is, for example, no coincidence that the equally conservative producer Jerry Bruckheimer chose him for the part of the Greenpeace-despising oil millionnaire [sic!] who saves the world in "Armageddon".
This doesn't mean that Willis at times can't make at least an acceptable acting performance. (He has hardly the ambition or the ability to become a dramatic actor of important stature, in spite of a few daring choices of parts.) Admittedly there are some contradictory traits in his career (such as the mentioned deviations from his long series of action roles). But in the steady struggle between liberal and conservative forces that has been going on in Hollywood ever since the establishment of the film industry, Willis is one of the most public and obvious figures. That is what makes it relevant to mention his party affiliation in this context - particularly since the film "The Kid" so clearly mirrors the position held by the new US president, George W Bush, supported by Willis.
That I didn't discuss Willis' acting performance in greater detail depended in part on the fact that there were other issues - such as the underlying ideology - that were of greater interest. "The Kid" might not have been improved by a slightly different conclusion and a liberal, for example Robert Redford, in the lead. It might even been as irritatingly artificially construed in an effort to fit Redford's sympathies. If that had been the case, I'd have commented on it.