Apparently Clint was unable to attend and they booked Grandpa Simpson instead. This is SAD shit.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Rambling, crazy, and the first words out his mouth aligned him with fellow "conservative" loon Jon Voight.

PAINFUL to watch for anyone who gives HALF a shit about Eastwood as a human being.

[CatWoman]

1. that headline is a killer

[Zorra]

19. Slayed me, too. Here's a video of Clint's speech:

[CatWoman]

20. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

stop it!!

[hlthe2b]

2. It is painful to watch & apparently he is being heckled

[nanabugg]

6. maybe he didn't remember that superbowl ad? nt

[malaise]

3. It's pathetic

He makes John McGramps sound articulate

[RedStateLiberal]

4. I'd feel sorry for him if he wasn't being such an asshole.

The talking to the Obama who doesn't exist bit kind of fits into their theme of the make-believe president they're running against. Maybe he's senile.

[Terra Alta]

5. I almost feel sorry for him... nt

[hlthe2b]

7. His attorney swipe--does he not realize that Romney has a law degree?

[CoffeeCat]

8. Bifurcating?

I'm sitting here wondering how Eastwood has managed to make successful movies lately. He seems a bit discombobulated.

[Brother Buzz]

9. The important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time

We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Give me five bees for a quarter," you'd say.

Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

[htuttle]

13. Back in those days, rich men would ride around in Zeppelins, dropping coins on people,

...and one day I seen J.D. Rockefeller flying by. So I run of the house with a big washtub and...

[ailsagirl]

10. Glad I'm not watching

If I want to see ruins, I'll go to Greece

[niyad]

11. from rowdy yates to this??? sad, just. . .sad

[Amerigo Vespucci]

12. Rachel Maddow is almost speechless ("I...I...I...I don't know...)

Then she said "I guess he's almost 80? That's what's going on?"

Very, very sad.

[Sparkly]

14. Got him out of bed and didn't even bother to comb his hair.

Sad.

[nolabear]

15. Putting swear words in Obama's mouth is the damnedest thing I've ever seen.

[reformist2]

16. Even Andrea Mitchell couldn't spin it! LOL

[Marr]

17. You win again, Time.

[CoffeeCat]

18. My 12 year old daughter

Is watching the RNC with me. She saw
me playing on my iPhone and I handed it to her and explained that I could see real-time comments about the speeches we were currently viewing. She scrolled through and started laughing hysterically at your post! Hey, when you can make kids laugh you know you're hysterical.

[Gabi Hayes]

21. stewart/colbert coverting this live tonight?

can't wait to see their reaction to this sad old loon

[Generic Other]

22. Brutal headline!

[Initech]

23. Back in my day nickels had pictures of bumble bees on them.

"Give my five bees for a quarter" you'd say.

And then I tied an onion to my belt which was the style at the time.

[longship]

24. Reminds me of this.

Actually, I kinda liked Admiral Stockdale, thrust by providence into an impossible situation. Unlike Clint, Stockdale told the truth. "What am I doing here?"

A memorable moment in political history, and almost everybody liked him for it, in spite of his abysmal performance in the debate. The pity was strong.