Clint Eastwood as VP? George H.W. Bush Considered It

[alp227]

George H.W. Bush, trailing Democrat Michael Dukakis in the heat of the 1988 presidential campaign, briefly but seriously considered Hollywood renaissance man Clint Eastwood to be his running mate, a former Bush aide says.

The revelation comes from more than 350 hours of audio interviews with 50 senior officials from the George H.W. Bush administration released today by the University of Virginia’s Miller Center and Bush Presidential Library Foundation. The decade-long oral history project documents the life and times of the 41st presidency.

“When we were way behind. Honestly, was suggested in not an altogether unserious – Well, he was a mayor. He was a Republican mayor,” former Bush campaign chairman and Secretary of State James Baker said.

Eastwood served one term as mayor of the conservative ocean side community Carmel, Calif., from 1986-1988.

full: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/clint-eastwood-as-vp-george-h-w-bush-considered-it/

[itsrobert]

1. Well, Clint doesn't quit

It would have been a better choice than Dan Quayle.

[Maccagirl]

2. It took them 350 hours to talk about that non-event called the Bush years?

I remember exactly one speech the man gave. His only saving grace was that he was the most invisable president we've had in my lifetime.