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Clint played the role of the drunken, black sheep uncle who shows up at your daughters wedding out of nowhere and leaves a lasting impression. He successfully derailed the Republican message. You can see this is true right here in C-D. The Republican Convention thread has a total of 75 pages. The Clint Eastwood thread has a close second, 65 pages but has only been up for a forth of the same timeframe. Talk about distractions.
Last night, I was reading on a different message board that is probably something like 90% conservative posters - at least in the politics forum (the mods are also all right wing religious conservatives and have banned all but a handful of hardy liberals) - and even they were talking about how no one was talking about Mittens' speech - that all the attention was on "Clint the Chair Whisperer" (I like that - my thanks to whoever thought of it).
Of course, the hardcore "republicans do no wrong no matter how cruel, immoral, amoral, illegal, or unethical" crowd loved him - thought he knocked it out of the park. Much like here. LOL
The people who are bashing Clint Eastwood's short address at the RNC seem to be going too far.
He did not ruin the convention, or ruin Romney's campaign.
He ad-libbed on stage, when speaking to the chair. He's 82 years old and ad-libbed as he went.
He made some very good remarks about the high number of people out of work. He almost broke down when he said he cried more about those 23 million people, than he did over O'bama's big night in 2008.
And the fact that he thinks it is time for a change, that Romney and Ryan can do the job, that maybe it's time to let a business man try, when someone does not do the job it is time for them to go, etc. All of which are pro GOP whom he supports.
His speech was about 11 minutes.
Only about 4 minutes of that was where the critics think he acted/talked like a senile 82 year old who should not have been out there.
He had no notes. I think he had a very rough script in mind, and he ad-libbed it, once on stage.
I sent a message to the DNC chair person telling them that they should do this:
Let one of their earlier speakers, early in the week, come out on stage for their address and bring a chair with them. The crowd would go wild. Set the chair beside the podium. The speaker can glance at the chair one time and then ignore it the rest of the time. And after he or she is finished speaking just take the chair off stage with them. That would be a silent way to mock what Eastwood did.
I sent a message to the DNC chair person telling them that they should do this:
Let one of their earlier speakers, early in the week, come out on stage for their address and bring a chair with them. The crowd would go wild. Set the chair beside the podium. The speaker can glance at the chair one time and then ignore it the rest of the time. And after he or she is finished speaking just take the chair off stage with them. That would be a silent way to mock what Eastwood did.
That's so sweet, you and Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz are pen pals? And your recommendation is to copy Eastwood's brilliant skit because Dems have never had an original thought in their lives? Very special.
It is the honesty of Clint Eastwood talking about Obama that the liberals can't stand.. truth hurts..
Try digesting his whole speech and see why repubs are not totally happy with it. As a libertarian he and Ron Paul share some of the same philosophy as liberals. Doesn't sit well with the repub right.
This explains the cringing and perplexed looks of many in the audience, who stood and cheered only at the jingoistic dog-whistles.
BTW did you know that "libertarian", "liberal", and "liberty", have the same root meaning? Clue - the dictionary is correct. It's quite telling that you righties consider yourselves the opposite. liberal - definition of liberal by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
Last edited by detwahDJ; 09-02-2012 at 02:17 PM..
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