Straight from the Department of Tone Deafness, someone at the RNC thinks a good idea for a political party that has a persistent and troubling problem with younger voters is to parade an 82-year-old Hollywood has-been out as their big surprise speaker.
Was the decaying corpse of a 101-year-old Ronald Reagan not available for a "Weekend at Bernie's"-style appearance? We all know the near-dead are big fans of the GOP. How is emphasizing that to swing voters a winning effort?
Was the decaying corpse of a 101-year-old Ronald Reagan not available for a "Weekend at Bernie's"-style appearance? We all know the near-dead are big fans of the GOP. How is emphasizing that to swing voters a winning effort?
Take a look at this recent photo of Clint Eastwood for all the evidence you need.
Oh wait, that's the guy from HBO's "Tales from the Crypt"? Could've fooled me.
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Are you sure about the photo? I swear that's a picture of Sir Paul from the Olympic opening ceremonies. As I watched I was thinking he was leaving the dead-or-alive question unresolved.
In what will be 2 weeks of scripted political speeches about how we're good and they're bad, it was refreshing to hear Clint. He said what was on his mind. Maybe last night wasn't the best night for this, but it's the only unscripted speech you'll be hearing this week or next.
They would have been better to have had Flavor Flav giving that speech rather than Clint Eastwood. That was horrendous.
Re: Anonymous-
Nope, turns out Clinton was also able to have an unscripted speech... and he came off as something other than crazy town.
The problem with Clint was that to the outside world (i.e., not in the convention hall) Clint spewing crazy reminded us of the crazy we all laughed at during the early months of the GOP primary. It served to remind us about the worst of the Republican party, rather than its best.
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