Clint Eastwood is RNC Mystery Speaker

[GoSmileLaughCryClap]

Posted: 8/30/12 at 2:51pm

An avowed Republican multi-millionaire in his 80s. Quelle suprise.

Posted: 8/30/12 at 2:53pm

oh look!, another rich cowboy.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/30/12 at 2:55pm

I was hoping for Hologram Jesus.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 8/30/12 at 2:56pm

Yeeeesh. Revolting. I'd start avoiding his movies over this, if I wasn't already avoiding them because they suck.

[Jon]

Posted: 8/30/12 at 3:06pm

...but he made a movie where he pulled the plug on a vegetable!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/30/12 at 3:10pm

It's a shame because I happen to really like Clint Eastwood's films. A lot.

Posted: 8/30/12 at 3:20pm

well, lately his films are basically a serious version of Grumpy Old Men, but he carries a gun.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/30/12 at 3:21pm

I'm really looking forward to his new one.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 8/30/12 at 3:22pm

But...but...who cares? I mean...how is this reveal in any way exciting. We've all known for decades that Clint in a Republican. How in God's name does this inspire any kind of excitement?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/30/12 at 3:24pm

And he's not exactly the most "energetic" of speakers.

Posted: 8/30/12 at 3:25pm

Really? Wow, what a let down.

Can you imagine the outage if the DNC put George Clooney in the second-to-closing spot?

Of course, the list of Bigger Democratic stars would be huge- IF they'd do it. You could easily line up a whole night of liberal Star endorsements for Obama- IF you wanted to:




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[SNAFU]

Posted: 8/30/12 at 3:26pm

I love how the GOP always trashes the Democrats for having the "Hollyweird Elite" on their side and yet they choose Clint as a special surprize speaker?

[Kad]

Posted: 8/30/12 at 3:26pm

The revelation that it is not Hologram Reagan rends my soul.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/30/12 at 3:27pm

I just saw that Michael Douglas will be playing Reagan in a new movie.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 8/30/12 at 3:27pm

Yeah, Eastwood's a longtime Republican, but he's never really been one to appear at this kind of event, has he? And to make an appearance at the Cavalcade of Perversion that this convention has become is a real low -- he's really allying himself with the forces of darkness here.

[Kad]

Posted: 8/30/12 at 3:28pm

He's not even a Conservative Icon, really. He's not some hard-core right-winger. He's for gay marriage and death panels.

[GoSmileLaughCryClap]

Posted: 8/30/12 at 3:32pm

True Roscoe and Kad, but apparently he's good friends with Romney, so he's either looking the other way, or holding his nose.

It's just a shame the Repubs are getting a star bigger than Bo Derek.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/30/12 at 3:33pm

It's ok if they get a big star because they're the do as I say not as I do party.

[Kad]

Posted: 8/30/12 at 3:35pm

And the Dems are the "...someone do SOMETHING" party.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 8/30/12 at 3:39pm

Is he going to "Dirty Harry" some sense into them?

[artscallion]

Posted: 8/30/12 at 3:42pm

His fan base is women and old people (and Jordan.) Who do the GOP seriously need to woo? Women and old people. Stuff like this works because it get's Eastwood's fan base of women and old people (and Jordon)to watch the speech. Once they've got their attention, they can use manipulate facts and outright lies to lure the uninformed in.

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[Roscoe]

Posted: 8/30/12 at 3:42pm

If he's not a hard-core Right Winger, he's got no business endorsing Mitt Romney at all, much less appearing at the Cavalcade of Bigotry in Tampa.

F*ck Clint. He's even deader to me now than he was before.

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[strummergirl]

Posted: 8/30/12 at 3:44pm

It's not like Clint Eastwood wasn't visible when other Republicans were in the WH or anything. Oh, wait.


He also did a couple of Just Say No PSAs with Nancy Reagan.

He got socially liberal over the years but he openly talked about voting for McCain in 2008, so it was doubtful his opinion of the President ever changed.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 8/30/12 at 3:45pm

Eastwood's fan base is women? Really? Because of that Bridges movie?

Honestly...I kind of feel nothing about this at all. Though it would be kind of hilarious if he decided 'tough love' was the theme of his speech.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 8/30/12 at 3:50pm

His core fan base are a mix of men of a certain age who liked him since Rawhide and younger men who are into the masculinity and violence of his films between the Leone and Dirty Harry period.