Will anyone be fired for the clearly piss poor planning around the Eastwood thing?

[Stinky The Clown]

People associated with the Romney campaign were involved directly in the decision to let him go on stage and to let him say anything he wanted to say. Someone put the stool up there, so they knew *something* was up. And if they *didn't* know what he was going to say, that's even worse.

[cynatnite]

1. You'd have to fire Rmoney because he said, "My buddy Clint will do it". n/t

[spanone]

2. they double-down

[tama]

3. Why worse?

I don't like politicians and follow-the-leader -authorianism and the whole scripted political culture.

[lpbk2713]

4. They probably gave him carte blanche.

The thinking must have gone like "hey we're getting an endorsement from Clint Eastwood. What could be bad with that?" And they let him wing it for as long as he wanted.

[ann---]

10. I thought gopers

hated Hollywood. I bet they really do now.

[graham4anything]

5. remember the last time Sinatra was on the grammy's

he rambled and went on and on clearly not right
then all of a sudden, I think it was CBS cut him off

and I wondered half jokingly if someone would be canned (or worse) for cutting the legend off

remember one thing with Clint- that chair was placed on the stage. This was no ad lib spur of the moment.

but then again, neither was Mitt's saying we are going to war with Iran and saber rattling with Putin.

[Jennicut]

6. They let an 82 year old make an embarrassment of himself.

That was smooth on their end.

[madrchsod]

7. i did`t know he was 82...dam

ya did`t anyone check to see what he was going to do?

[lpbk2713]

9. That sounds like the RayGun administration.

An embarrassment from start to finish.

[Booster]

8. The one clear thing about tonight was not ONE of my repug friends on FB said a damn word about it.

None of it. So that tells me a lot about what they thought of it. Not much.

[SidDithers]

11. James Stockdale came to mind...

Or maybe Phil Hartman's portrayal of Stockdale.

Sid

[Stinky The Clown]

12. In defense of Stockdale . . . . .

. . . . . he was perfectly lucid when he said that. It was intended to be wry and ironic. It got taken out of context and he was never able to get away from it. If one watches the whole thing, one can see he is coherent and engaged.

Kinda like this "We DID Build IT" shit the repubs are using.

[FSogol]

18. Completely agree. Stockdale was joking around. n/t

[sofa king]

13. No, in Republican-land, those people are promoted.

[Solly Mack]

14. They'll blame the chair.

[RagAss]

15. LOL !

[obamanut2012]

17. It WAS a Socialist chair

It was on Eastwood's left.

[uponit7771]

16. NO! That's the GOP way, incompetent

[apnu]

19. No. The guy who made the Etch-a-Sketch still has a job. (nt)

[randome]

20. Are you serious?

The Romney 'campaign' has been a disaster from the start. Eastwood's idiocy doesn't even rank with all the gaffes and missteps so far.

No one is running the campaign because no one is running the GOP. The clown car's steering column is broken, the brakes don't work and the wipers are in shreds.