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MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 04:24 PM Aug 2012

I'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?

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I'm seriously wondering if Eastwood wanted to sink Romney's candidacy. (Original Post) MoonRiver Aug 2012 OP
Eastwood's not that diverse of an actor to pull that off 2pooped2pop Aug 2012 #1
Think back to his ambiguous half time piece at the football game....... left on green only Aug 2012 #2
Maybe MoonRiver Aug 2012 #3
If you were a chair, I'd tell you. russspeakeasy Aug 2012 #5
That's rich! left on green only Aug 2012 #13
Well, he did tell him to go fuck himself last night, even if he did have to cook up a wild scheme. Scuba Aug 2012 #4
I have a different theory and it goes back to the GM Super Bowl commercial Cali_Democrat Aug 2012 #6
I remember that. MoonRiver Aug 2012 #7
I think Clint personifies that old pug way Whisp Aug 2012 #16
Here: janx Aug 2012 #8
Yep, great minds think alike! MoonRiver Aug 2012 #9
I was wondering about Clint also.. Fumesucker Aug 2012 #10
Maybe he's a friend of Gary Johnson's EC Aug 2012 #11
He holds many progressive positions Ineeda Aug 2012 #12
or was he to distract the media from everything Mitt the Shit had to say? fascisthunter Aug 2012 #14
I am seriously wondering whether that really was the real Clint Eastwood. longship Aug 2012 #15
 

2pooped2pop

(5,420 posts)
1. Eastwood's not that diverse of an actor to pull that off
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 04:30 PM
Aug 2012

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)
2. Think back to his ambiguous half time piece at the football game.......
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 04:34 PM
Aug 2012

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)
3. Maybe
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 04:36 PM
Aug 2012

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.

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
4. Well, he did tell him to go fuck himself last night, even if he did have to cook up a wild scheme.
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 04:37 PM
Aug 2012
 

Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)
6. I have a different theory and it goes back to the GM Super Bowl commercial
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 04:52 PM
Aug 2012

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.

 

Whisp

(24,096 posts)
16. I think Clint personifies that old pug way
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 08:29 PM
Aug 2012

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.

Ineeda

(3,626 posts)
12. He holds many progressive positions
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 05:52 PM
Aug 2012

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.

longship

(40,416 posts)
15. I am seriously wondering whether that really was the real Clint Eastwood.
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 08:09 PM
Aug 2012

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!

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