The Man With No Name Speaks At RNC...

[ZahZoo]

It was more Jimmy Stewart than Clint Eastwood...

There was a certain choppy delivery which shows a little bit of his age and nervousness... but in reality Clint wasn't too far out of his public speaking range. He's always come off sounding very different speaking publicly in non-scripted terms than his highly polished lines in a movie. I first really noticed this when I met him and spoke with him several minutes at his restaurant that owned in Carmel, Ca. years ago.

When I first saw his speech live... I kinda cringed. Clearly this wasn't the polished, tightly scripted convention speech we'd seen all week. Then when I realized he wasn't reading from a teleprompter and was pretty much just working without a net... my view shifted from shock to... hey this light, entertainment... a bit of campy comedic play from an entertainer not a political talking head. After watching a replay... it was entertaining and not all high-brow bullshit but a few simple common sense messages and a few digs at the president and his idiot side-kick VP.

[Seshmeister]

Not yet I'm not..... but I'll get there

In your 20 year nursing career, did you ever see dementia, and if so, how can you not recognize it here?

Every morning when he looked in the mirror to adjust his cap...

[jhale667]

[Hardrock69]

http://news.yahoo.com/clint-eastwood-gets-cut-romney-rnc-video-203935058--abc-news-politics.html

Clint Eastwood Gets Cut From Romney RNC Video
By Sarah Parnass | ABC OTUS News – 2 hrs 24 mins ago

A video mash-up of speakers from last week's Republican National Convention does not include an appearance from the " mystery RNC speaker," Clint Eastwood.

The two-and-a-half minute video posted today to the Romney campaign's YouTube account features former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, VP nominee Paul Ryan and of course, Romney himself, but it leaves out Eastwood's controversial speech.

Eastwood caused a stir at the convention and on Twitter with a rambling speech Thursday night, in which he interviewed an invisible President Obama in a wooden prop chair.

The speech launched a trend called " Eastwooding ," and prompted one supporter to tell Vice President Joe Biden , "You gotta keep the chair."

"You got that? The invisible chair," Bev Kalmer of Poland, Ohio said.

White House senior adviser David Plouffe called Eastwood "an American treasure," on ABC's " This Week " Sunday.

"We're all Clint Eastwood fans here in the Obama campaign," Plouffe said.

A Romney adviser said the presidential candidate found Eastwood's routine funny, but other Republicans worried it disrupted the flow of the final night at the national convention.

"I personally think Clint Eastwood was a mistake before he came out," former California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina said today on "Meet the Press."

Speaking on the same show, former presidential candidate Newt Gingrich called the performance "a distraction."

"I think in the long run it's almost irrelevant. But it's the sort of bump that gives everything something to tweet about, and it provides lots of fodder," Gingrich said. "On the other hand, if you're Mitt Romney and your choice is to have Saturday Night Live decide to pick on Clint Eastwood or pick on you, I think- I think I'd give them Clint Eastwood for every night for the rest of the campaign."

[ELVIS]

Eastwood and Rubio were the only good parts of the whole thing...

It's a shame they're backing away from Dirty Harry...

[jhale667]

The Wrongney campaign apparently didn't get the post-convention poll bounce they were hoping for either... Clint didn't help, that's for sure.

[ELVIS]

It's the way they snubbed Ron Paul, not Eastwood's comedy routine...

[FORD]

It's the way they snubbed Ron Paul, not Eastwood's comedy routine...

I wouldn't bet on that. Even if Ron Paul had been allowed to speak, it wouldn't have been broadcast anywhere other than CSPAN or PBS. He damn sure wouldn't have been included in the network 1 hour prime timeshow, and probably not even FAUX Noize, considering he's not their kind of right winger.

[ELVIS]

Exactly my point...

If they would have warmed up to Paul, Romney would have had a significant bounce...

[FORD]

Exactly my point...

If they would have warmed up to Paul, Romney would have had a significant bounce...

Or they would have said "...so remind me how we got stuck with this flaming Mormon bag of shit and his little Eddie Munster KKKoch whore sidekick again?" and Mittens numbers would have been even lower.

[jhale667]

[Little Texan]