AHC: Make Sylvester Stallone a successful politician

Based on a similar premise but with Bruce Springsteen, make Sly a successful politician, with a POD no earlier than the Rocky and Rambo franchises. And in case you're wondering which party he is, he's a Republican.
 
The only way I can think of it happening...

In 1994 Congress ratified the 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which read:

The right to vote of citizens of the United States, whose intelligence quotient, or IQ, is scored higher than 70, shall be denied or abridged in the in the United States or by any State.

I guess this would repeal the 5th, 14th and 26th Amendment, but this is the only way I can see it happening.
 
Actually to be fair to the man I've seen interviews with him on set during the filming of the Rambo and Rocky oeuvres and he was pretty eloquent and cerebral talking about movie making and Hollywood.

The fact he sounds like a haunted door when he breathes doesn't come into it.
 
He's actually fairly intelligent and creative. He wrote the original Rocky script himself, and wrote and directed the sequels (except for V), and, at least IMHO, all of those films are cultural classics. Hell, the Library of Congress houses the first. I mean, look at some of our OTL politicians. You don't exactly need to be a brain surgeon or rocket scientist to get elected, you just need charm, and Sly certainly has heaps of it.

I think the biggest issue is that the man has never shown any inclination towards political life, afaik.

EDIT: Perhaps Arnold gets into politics earlier, and this inspires Sly to do the same. Perhaps he runs for Governor of Penn. in '94 - the Dems could have dropped their support for Singel if Casey had made an even bigger stink at the '92 convention. I think the Penn. GOP could have been talked into adopting Sly, who had household name recognition, over Ridge, who, prior to the '94 election no recognition at all except in the Eire area.
 
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Simple. After the GOP fails to get the Arnold Amendment passed, thay ask Mr. Stallone to run for public office as a Republican.

If nothing else, the GOP knows today's market.
 
Based on a similar premise but with Bruce Springsteen, make Sly a successful politician, with a POD no earlier than the Rocky and Rambo franchises. And in case you're wondering which party he is, he's a Republican.

In that case, surely the holy grail is 2008 being between Springsteen and Stallone? :D

Would be an interesting coincidence, actually. Both Roman Catholic, both of partially Italian ancestry, both have a blue-collar sort of image, both about the same age, and from bordering states.
 
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