Clint Eastwood played the role of the RNC’s dirty old grandpa last night, complete with pervy old man jokes.
Carrying on a long conversation with a make-believe Barack Obama sitting in a stool at his side, Eastwood made nasty references to both Romney’s and his own inability to auto-fellate (“He can’t do that to himself,” Eastwood protested against a a make-believe insult, and later, “I can’t do that to myself either.”)
He also inexplicably tried to take credit for wanting to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for the Republicans. He may not have been aware how much he sounded like Michael Moore, asking of the war in Afghanistan, “Why set a date? Why not bring the troops home tomorrow?”
He also found time to deride Obama’s efforts to try to mitigate the student loan crisis. Y’know—cuz that’s a popular position, hating on indebted college kids and all.
Clint has at times (not all the time) been an articulate voice of reason when it comes to celebs weighing in on politics. Last night he just sounded senile.
August 31, 2012 at 8:21 pm, Michael Denvir said:
I thought it was that he can't f*ck himself
September 02, 2012 at 6:03 pm, Dean Garr said:
What were they thinking?
How many ways can one say, "mistake"?
Republican convention went off the "cliffs of insanity" with this one.
For heaven's sake, what were they thinking?
Is this a glimpse of what Republican good judgment looks like?
This was the last night of the Republican convention.
And we are given this?
Try as I may, will I ever be able to erase the image of my favorite actor/director playing the part of a demented, crazed old man?
But as bad as this is, what does it say for a Republican party that can have so little sense as to allow this to happen?
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