Well, what does one expect from a political convention? Certainly not a legendary actor talking to a chair.
I've enjoyed most of Clint Eastwood's films. I always will. I won't judge him by his sad performance last night any more than I would those stupid movies he made with Clyde the orangutan. I'm sure those seemed like the thing to do at the time, just like Sondra Locke did. Quite possibly he's in the earlier stages of dementia right now. I don't think we'll have him much longer.
So much for Clint. Now, how to explain the republicans...
In a way Clint did. Just as he was all over the place with his ramblings, the various speakers were as well. Most of the convention was preaching to the choir. It's that plus the formality of finalizing the nominee. They hope that folks on the fence will tune in and be swayed to their side.
It's a damn shame that the whole theme of their prom was based on the false premise of something our president didn't actually say. Well, really that turned out to be fitting as they pretty much did nothing but re-build lies the last three days. I covered that in the last post. The reality is that tens of millions of Americans don't really care about (for example) the outright lie about the Janesville GM plant. The diehard republican supporters will believe it even knowing it's a lie. They know Jesus forgives lies when they are intended to usurp socialists who want to give free healthcare to undeserving people. That's in Fallopian's 1:2. They appeal to the low-information voters (as the news programs call them because 'idiots' is kinda mean) by simply asking: "Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?"
Of course, most people aren't. Neither are most people capable of extrapolating more from that loaded question by noting who exactly was president four years ago. At a convention it behooves the republicans to act as if ol' What's His Nuts turned over a surplus of funds and a beaming economy to Obama rather than some his friends had sodomized and pillaged it. And they just won't talk about the election night in '08 when their defeated selves got together and vowed to stymie Barack Obama in EVERYTHING he tried to do no matter how it effected the country. They're assholes but they're not stupid.
I'm still not sure they want it. Again- they just sorta showed up in '08 running McCain/Palin knowing that they didn't have or WANT a chance. I'm not sure they want it this time either after battling everything Obama tried to do for four years now. And they are running a guy they really don't seem to like. And he's not quite the protestant they always run. Even with the absolutely reprehensible obscenity of their efforts to infringe voting (and possibly *give* them the election- by *give* I mean steal) I really don't think they want to win just yet. It behooves them to let Obama run free, turn the economy around and have them take over after the half. If their plan is to fight him for four more years we might as well have the civil war some of the teaparty assholes so desperately want. This country cannot survive four more years of republican sabotage. We simply can't.
Well, you won't hear that at a convention. Instead we get nice stories about roses and perhaps foreshadowing of 2016 GOP candidates as Chris Christie, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush give (perhaps) a preview. All are better choices even in my eye. Soooo....why not this year? Maybe Rubio needs seasoning but Bush and Christie aren't getting any younger. I think they are going through the motions here and one more reason as to why is Romney assumes that if he were to win, he'd get two terms. It's almost a given. And that's another reason why the three I mentioned aren't in it this year. It's hard to beat an incumbent. These assholes can lie all day long about Obama-this and Obama-that but, that doesn't make it so and translate into votes, just because they said so. I think Romney is fodder for this political go round. Ryan too. Losing VP candidates don't fare well as presidential hopefuls. This is it for this prom couple. They'll be no rose for Ryan on the first Wednesday in November.
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I like some of his movies, especially "Gran Torino", which is partially about how well-to-do people don't understand the struggles of the poor and immigrants.
Hmm, wonder why they didn't reference that?
Anyway, I don't actually know how much experience Eastwood has with live stage acting. It's one thing to learn a script well enough to do it in a few takes. It's another to perform live.
He was definitely out of his element, MM, and should have had a script. Clint's actually a Libertarian. I think they thought they thought they were getting Dirty Harry rather than a guy who is pro-choice, pro-gay marriage etc. He is highly regarded in Hollywood for bringing films in under-budget- FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE, but actually so rather than giving political lip service to it.
SOMEONE with the RNC, or whoever represents Clint, should have seen this coming. They didn't let Christie go off the script and he's supposed to be good at that.
It was sad and rather telling that the people in attendance LOVED IT. But, by virtue of their being there, they had already fallen for everything else.
Why are we talking politics when we should be going over the bathtub scene from "Bridges of Madison County?"
Dang it I still love him!
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