RNC nightcap (Clint Eastwood and nothing else mattered)
I can honestly say that we've never laughed as hard at Daily Kos HQ as we did tonight.
We didn't laugh as hard during Herman Cain's press conference where he led with the attorney providing the legalistic definition of sexual harassment. And that was really funny. Nor did we laugh as hard during Rick Perry's "oops" debate moment, when he forgot which third government agency he would cut. We didn't even laugh as hard every time Marcus Bachmann came up, no matter the context.
None of those things could touch Clint Eastwood's RNC moment. And to think, I was orginally bummed when I found out the mystery guest wouldn't be a zombie Reagan hologram!
It was so defining a moment, in fact, that Beltway politicians were still tweeting about it well into Sen. Marco Rubio's speech. Sure, some 2016 hopeful was on the stage, but OMG did you see that chair thing!
But this wasn't just funny. It was instructive of the quality of Mitt Romney's campaign. Just think of everything that had to happen to deliver us tonight's disaster:
Republicans started buzzing about their "secret guest" on Monday, if not earlier. That means they had four days to help Clint write a speech and, you know, vet it. They didn't.
They then spent four days building up the hype about their super duper awesome secret guest. A joke that it would be a zombie Reagan hologram soon got a life of its own, and rumors abounded that yes, it would be Reagan! But no matter what, Clint Eastwood was never going to live up to the hype. He's cool, but this is a political convention, not a Comedy Central roast. There was palpable letdown when he was announced.
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