Honestly, the GOP and Mitt Romney should hang their heads in shame for what they did to Clint
I've been watching political conventions since Jimmy Carter first in 1976. I wasn't even 10 years old yet but I figured any guy who raised peanuts to make my favorite food - peanut butter, well he had to be a great guy.
It was Barbara Jordan, one of the best keynot address speakers EVER, who solidified me as a democrat but to be fair I always watched the republican conventions too. It wasn't until recently I had to stop watching because of how painful bad they are these days.
One thing I've learned over all these years is that the last night is all about your nominee. The political party is to close out that last night sending off their candidate of choice with a massive party & balloons & cheers & all the good wishes that will hopefully translate into a nice bump in the polls and to help solidify the win.
The GOP last night fucked up.
Royally!
What should have been the celebration of all things Mitt Romney instead closed their election with this message - Clint Eastwood is getting a bit crazy in his old age. I'm reading all the newspapers and not one of them is headlining with Mitt's speech or about the candidates but instead how Clint Eastwood made a fool of himself talking to an empty chair. That is not the message viewers of the convention should be getting out of the convention.
I'll admit, I barely watched it. I mean there was a video out there but I think I managed for about 1-2 minutes until I just felt downright sorry for Clint Eastwood. I mean I'm a huge fan of Clint. I always knew he was a republican leaning towards libertarian but he spoke in favor of marriage equality so I figured he wasn't that bad of a republican. Clint has had a lifetime of amazing work both as an actor and as a director, some of his movies rate up there with some of my favorites.
But last night I'm not sure who that was playing Clint Eastwood on stage. He looked like some person who got lost outside of his nursing home and wandered on stage talking to his imaginary friend sitting in the seat next to him. That's embarrassing and it's shameful that no one who organized this convention from the organizers all the way up to Mitt Romney himself thought to ask the question - "Is Clint Competent enough to do this?"
A smart move would have been to have Clint join Mitt on the stage at the end of the convention and give Clint a few lines to say like 'I'm voting for Mitt Romney'. That would have given the supports a real bang for their bucks and perhaps be a highlight of the convention. Instead we have what convention historians have called the worst moment ever in convention history. That's sad that it happened that way and shameful that the GOP allowed it.
I'll still watch Clint Eastwood movies but everytime I see them I'm going to see flashbacks of the crazy man talking to the chair.
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