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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm seriously wondering if Eastwood wanted to sink Romney's candidacy.
He went "off script" into a bizarre, offensive and insulting impromptu play. The Romney's were reportedly horrified and the public seems shocked. THAT is what undecideds are now going to associate with Romney, and not the "heart warming" video, which aired before most were watching.
Not that I'm complaining about the latest Rethug shot to foot, but does anybody else have this suspicion?
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)He has just become a doddering old fool, that has always been a repiglican but has failed to follow and understand the issues. Or the cause of the issues, I should say.
left on green only
(1,484 posts)This guy has come back to play "misty". It's sad (fortunate) that the brains behind the repuke propaganda machine have fallen off the wagon with regard to Eastwood's "age impaired" mental capacity.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)But maybe it was revenge for how Ron Paul and his supporters were treated. Guess we'll never really know, cause Clint won't talk.
russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)left on green only
(1,484 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)I don't know if people remember, but the GOPers went absolutely ballistic when the Clint Eastwood ad aired during the Super Bowl. They were apoplectic because they thought it was essentially a campaign spot for Obama, which it wasn't. Clint was just proud the auto industry came back in a big way and he did the commercial for GM. He didn't do it to help Obama at all.
So when the GOP found out they could get Clint to speak at the convention, they were ecstatic that they could get Clint Eastwood to stab Obama in the back. They thought that they could, in their warped minds, take Eastwood away from the Obama campaign and use him to help Romney.
Well it backfired in a big way and they have nobody to blame but themselves.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Amazing that they trusted him again. Oh, well...
Whisp
(24,096 posts)white
bluster macho
guns
intimidation
That is how Clint is recalled by the protozoas, not the fact that he is for marriage equality, is anti-war and pro-choice.
Eastwood was giving them the giant middle finger for fucking with Ron Paul's delegates, is my take. He was not being friendly to Obama or democrats at all. But that doesn't matter, as long as he fucked with those protozoaic brains, we should be okay with that.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)EC
(12,287 posts)or Ron Paul...
Ineeda
(3,626 posts)regarding things like climate change and gay rights, among others. The 'routine' was disrespectful of the president and off-the-rails crazy, but also wasn't pro-rmoney. Don't forget that Eastwood really had nothing to lose, either way. He's rich and not a politician, so doesn't really have to worry about blowback.
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)I've heard through a reliable source that Dick Cheney concocted an insidious plot involving a fake Clint Eastwood that was spawned by Cheney himself, and subsequently flew out his butt, just like a monkey.
After months of major reconstructive surgery and 24/7 viewing of Clint Eastwood flicks, the homunculus was ready.
The results, last night.
Of course it was unscripted, they didn't have enough time to write a speech for it.
That's evidence of the Cheney butt monkey homunculus that cannot be refuted.
<=== need I say?
Really? Do we really have to go there?
Rubbish!