*Count NBA commentator Greg Anthony in the Mitt Romney column.
No stranger to politics, the Nevada native and former UNLV and NBA player is featured in a new ad for the Republican presidential nominee
“I really lost faith in [Barack Obama],” Anthony says in the 30 second ad, which was uploaded to You Tube Friday. “I’m supporting Mitt Romney. He’s a no-excuse kind of guy and over the last four years, I think we’ve heard enough excuses.”
During the ad, Anthony admits he voted for Obama in 2008 because he “thought he’d be a centrist.” He also says high unemployment rates in Nevada is another reason he’s not supporting the president again.
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As far as his 11-year NBA career, he is mostly remembered for his time with the New York Knicks during the early 1990s. He was far more successful in college, where he starred with other future NBA players Larry Johnson and Stacey Augmon at UNLV. The 1990 team won an NCAA Championship.
In college, Anthony was a national vice-chairman for the Young Republicans from 1989-91. He is currently an basketball analyst on NBA TV and CBS Sports.
Yea well have at it Greg Anthony..don’t understand Black Republicans ..its a oxymoron..but its his vote.
I don’t have a problem with him being a Republican, but why vote for the party that has thrown so much overt racism at the President? Why vote for the party that has displayed racism toward this man over and over and over again? If they are doing it to him, they are doing it to you! Sorry Greg Anthony, I am extremely disappointed in you. You have no sense of obligation. I have voted Republican before, but never will I agin, not in this racist environment! Greg Anthony, not only have you turned your back on this President, you are outwardly campaigning against him! HOW LOW ARE YOU GONNA STOOP? Oh that’s right, you believe that your wealth has given you a pass. WAKE UP BROTHER! WAKE UP QUICK!
He’s free to beleive in and vote for anyone he pleases, but to say that Mitt Romney is a “no excuses,” kind of guy is laughable. Your right, he is worst than that, he is a straight out liar, who can’t be trusted. He believes and says whatever he thinks we all want to hear. He has no firm convictions, and his own party doesn’t even want him. If that’s the man Anthony wants to vote for, have at it.
I agree with Greg Anthony I to gave money and voted for Obama in 2008 because I though he would be a centrist however now he has let the lunatic on the far left wing get a grip on him that being said I can not in good consciences vote for Obama in 2012.
I don’t know what you and Greg Anthony is talking about. Obama has always been right of center. Yeah, during the campaign he’s going to come out spewing that left wing rhetoric, but look at his record. Look at the Affordable Care Act. Well, let’s just call it “Obama Care”, because during the debates, Obama allowed himself to go down to Mitt’s level, constantly using that derogatory term to refer to his own legislation. But that mandate is straight out of the right wing playbook – take from the poor to fatten the pocket of the rich. Insurance companies are now going to be rich beyond their dreams, thanks to poor people. And it didn’t even have to be like that, because there were enough support for the public option. Don’t fool yourself. If and when the Republicans has the numbers, they will never get rid of that mandate.
You also got to remember the wars. Obama got to be the most war mongering Democrat ever. He escalated the war in Afghanistan and had every intention of keeping the one in Iraq going. He only backed off when the Iraqis said “hell no” after learning of the family that was slaughtered and how they then called for the house to be bombed. And all that came from Wiki leaks. Even the way Obama went after Wiki leaks for exposing the truth shows extreme right wing behavior. Then he used the espionage act to go after whistle blowers here claiming that Bush crap about exposing government secrets. Obama’s frequency in using the Espionage act put even the Republicans at shame. And only God knows what will now result from that precedent when the Republicans are back in power.