Tactically excellent, strategically stupid. GOP efforts should be directed at “Democrat policies” in general, of which Barack Obama is an epitome. The goal here is not just the presidency but the first conservative government since Calvin Coolidge’s day.
The second thing this did was gig Obama---who is notoriously thin-skinned---and this will force him into campaign errors. You can argue it already has: Obama changed HIS schedule to now try and follow Romney to LA.
Oh, and third, do you remember what just a week ago consumed the media and blogosphere? Akin, Akin, Akin. Where is Mr. Akin now? Nobody cares. He's dropped off the media map as they attack Eastwood. But Eastwood's image is enduring . . . the empty chair. I just think it was a home run in every aspect.
Clint’s message was that not everyone in Hollywood is a leftist squish.
Lord knows, the SoCal clowncar is going to unload like apes on PCP next week, and gauging by the tweets its already began.
Hollywood’s been trying to sell us on a ‘different’ version of America. ABC is coming out with a series about a U-boat commander that refuses a legal nuclear launch order and instead launches against the US. Some other outfit is coming out with a show called ‘The New Normal’ about a gay couple.
The message couldn’t be clearer: Get used to a new, gay, European-style America. That’s what’s coming out of Hollywood, and Clint was there to say, it’s not completely true.
Someone was listening to Mark Levin this evening.
I agree. The biggest issue I had was there was very little call for Democrats to be defeated. We need a strong majority in the Senate and house. Otherwise, Romney will have no chance of straightening things up. “dingie” Harry Read won’t allow a Romney budget to be voted on. PERIOD.
It played well with people who already disapprove of Obama, but frankly to the vast majority of Americans that are mostly apolitical, I don’t think they quite “got it.”
If it was meant to warm up the convention crowd from Romney’s speech, then I would say it worked, but if it was meant to convert independents, then I would say, “not so much.”