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2012-08-30 -Election 2012

Eastwood To Speak At Convention Thursday

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Posted by tu3031 2012-08-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Tu3031, Clint Eastwood, a good choice. Jon Voight would have been OK too but he has spoken before as I recall.

Posted by JohnQC 2012-08-30 09:23|| 2012-08-30 09:23|| Front Page Top

#2 ... a GOP source confirmed "that Eastwood is indeed the mystery speaker".

Rats. I was kind of hoping it would be Bill Clinton.

Posted by AzCat 2012-08-30 10:48|| 2012-08-30 10:48|| Front Page Top

#3 What do you want me to say?

I did have sex with that woman?

Nope not in a million years.

Of course I am closer to being a Publican than an Obamacrat

Posted by Bill Clinton 2012-08-30 11:24|| 2012-08-30 11:24|| Front Page Top

#4 I was hoping for Limbaugh or Nugent, but I suppose that would have been a bit much.

Posted by Besoeker 2012-08-30 11:32|| 2012-08-30 11:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Bill, I bet you tell that to all the Republican girls. We don't believe you.

Posted by lotp 2012-08-30 12:13|| 2012-08-30 12:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Nice to know that not everybody in Hollywood hates me.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-08-30 13:06|| 2012-08-30 13:06|| Front Page Top

#7 I was sort of hoping for Sarah or George.

Posted by AlanC 2012-08-30 13:07|| 2012-08-30 13:07|| Front Page Top

#8 I was hoping for Doug Wilder (former conservative Democrat Governor of Virginia, and a good one).

Talk about putting the libruls' panties in a twist.... :-D

Posted by Barbara 2012-08-30 14:10|| 2012-08-30 14:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Limbaugh or Palin would have been political suicide since they are media circus acts. Eastwood is off the radar and will be interesting if nothing else.

Ryan did a good job - had a few good zingers. It was the first time I actually listen to anything from him.

Privately I wish someone would say Romney would never bow to another leader...

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2012-08-30 16:39|| 2012-08-30 16:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Clint Eastwood, in one of his most recent movies, playing the role of an old and grey character, in a scene where he was protecting younger people, chose to confront the bad guys of a gang headon. Old, sick, and his long life almost over stood between the gang and those he wanted to protect whom he told to call 911, and after buying enough time made a move like he was drawing a weapon. Only he had no weapon, died in a blaze of gunfire as the police pulled up and saw the gang gun down an old grey man, and arrested the whole gang for murder. Unlike his many good guy bad guy movies no younger person died in that confrontation, only him. It stunned even the bad guys when they realized he planned it this way, they learned how special he was dieing unarmed so bravely.

Just as we read of the last of the old grey remnants of the Greatest Generation unhesitantly using their concealed weapons permits to quickly stop every day armed robberies and assaults on our streets, these last ghosts of free and noble generation are going on to eternal glory as no less freedom warriors than they were when men of a freerer age.

Clint Eastwood's who looked at the producer of Farenheit 911 in the eye and said that if he ever came to his house, he would shoot him will be a great moment in American political history.

Posted by wr 2012-08-30 19:18|| 2012-08-30 19:18|| Front Page Top

#11 Clint Eastwood's speech tonight... (Correction to the last paragraph above)

Posted by wr 2012-08-30 19:23|| 2012-08-30 19:23|| Front Page Top

#12 The Eastwood pic is an exciting one, rather than another political hack. He has a charisma and good memories among most Americans (not punks, though...). If he pulls a Reaganesque "we need to return to American values" speech, I can see this as huge preference cascade point. White males (those without metrosexual clothes) will be locked in. Independents and blue-collar Dems could run big. I like it (obviously)

Posted by Frank G 2012-08-30 20:18|| 2012-08-30 20:18|| Front Page Top

#13 and if he says of Obama: "A man's gotta know his limitations"....

Posted by Frank G 2012-08-30 20:20|| 2012-08-30 20:20|| Front Page Top

#14 Making a Speech they can't refuse - do ya feel lucky, well do they ...???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-08-30 22:49|| 2012-08-30 22:49|| Front Page Top

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