Posted on 09/02/2012 2:44:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
MITT Romney has a real chance to make Barack Obama a one-term president.
The polls say the two men are close but Romney offers something that Americans will find hard to ignore on November 6 when they go to the polls: a proven record as a job creator.
When Clint Eastwood took the stage at the Republican National Convention, and gave an uneven speech that misfired in parts, he nevertheless made his point. Eastwood went to Tampa not as a Republican but an American who sees a great country struggling to find its way, hogtied by a stalemated Congress and run by professional politicians who put their survival ahead of their constituents.
President Obama’s fine rhetoric no longer moves hearts and minds.
“I think it’s maybe time for a businessman,” said Eastwood. “I’d like to say something that I think is very important. You, we, we own this country. Politicians are employees of ours.”
They were powerful words and Romney, despite a reputation as being disconnected from ordinary Americans because of his great personal wealth, promised to be a hardworking servant of the people.
In his stint as governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007, he declined a salary and went to work balancing the budget...
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Generally; America is SO DUMB THAT.......
Clint Eastwoods speech will have some impact on the elections..
Its brilliant for Clint to have the courage to face America’s shallow dumbness...
And give a speech speaking to “those people”..
Clint must be a realist... or a very “simple” person himself..
Clint Eastwood Gets Cut From Romney RNC Video
The Stupid Party has just handed the Evil Party a huge weapon -- the Left will now get to interpret Eastwood, and believe me, they will not use the parts that support Romney.
Stupid, stupid, stupid....
Yes, America is uneducated, even about the art form that we spend trillions of hours watching. Here are some posts that I copied and emailed to my family who would not have watched the speech. Even Maher or whatever his name is said Eastwood “killed it.” That is peer review.
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I never listen to the great zero, so the subtleties of the Clint’s speech would not have been apparent to me until I read the posts at Free Republic. Now I have to watch it again...
“It’s one of those things that at the moment, you think, what the heck is this. But afterwards, as you think about his performance, it grows on you. You realize it wasn’t a speech, but a didactic theatrical piece. It was not like anything that has been done before at a convetion, and it was effective for making a point, in the inimicable style of Eastwood.”
“performance art”
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“Absolutely loved Clint’s “performance art”! Truly brilliant and it was a page out of Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals - to beat an opponent, first you have to ridicule him. And, I don’t believe that I’ve ever seen Obama truly skewered like that, in public, on a huge stage, by a cultural icon! Plus, notice the DemoMarxists’ and their Acolyte MSM’s vile has been totally directed at an octogenarian who is beloved by members of his generation (hint: senior voters!!!). My only negative: I wish Clint could have given that Dirty Harry stare to COTUS (Chair of the United States) and softly threatened: “Do you feel lucky punk?? Well, do ya??””
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“The “speech” was political theatre...
...And Clint is the master of his craft...
I thought it was a VERYYYY effective...
And brilliantly simple work of theatrical art...
Even his disheveled appearance and stumbling delivery were part of the schtick...
JMO...”
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“The Dem “talking heads” and surrogates just can’t bring themselves to acknowledge that the entire world “got” Eastwood’s message loud and clear—and they have nowhere to hide.
Agree, too, with Applegateranch’s comments on another thread about the genius of Eastwood’s use of his object’s own “egregious speech pattern,” commonly referred to by pseudointellectual “progressives” as a sign of Obama’s great intellect and deliberative style.
Another gem was his use of a former President’s assessment of Romney’s “stellar business performance” in this total unmasking of the great destroyer of business in America.
From Geraldo Rivera on FOX to Gloria Borger on CNN, the faux criticism and claims that Eastwood distracted from the Romney speech and Borger’s claim that parts were “crass” are laughable when compared with much of the Dem performer language and inferences.”
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“”I thought it was one of the funniest political speeches I’ve ever seen.”
Me too, AZ .44. He said more—effectively and cleverly—in his cool, offbeat sort-of parody of his suffers-no-fools old-man character/persona self, than any other (true) artist of any age could. You go, Clint. You got it *all* goin’ on. And you BURNED Obama. BIGTIME.”
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Oh, they didn’t “miss” the subtlety, they just can’t bring themselves to acknowledge that the entire world “got”
Eastwood’s message loud and clear—and they have nowhere to hide.
Agree, too, with Applegateranch about the genius of Eastwood’s use of his object’s own “egregious speech
pattern,” commonly referred to by pseudointellectual “progressives” as a sign of Obama’s great intellect and
deliberative style.
Another gem was his use of a former President’s assessment of Romney’s “stellar business performance” in
this total unmasking of the great destroyer of business in America.
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It’s on youtube if you missed it.
Rubio/Ryan 2016
It’s politics: This way the message is transmitted to millions while Team Romney/Ryan keep their hands clean for those Independents and Democrats who are leaning towards voting Obama out. It’s actually brilliant, and I’d bet $100 that all of this was scripted weeks ago. I grew up in Southern California and lived a few doors down from a pretty busy character actor who you’d recognize in an instant. He once told my father and I something along the lines of “If you see something happen on TV or film, it wasn’t there by accident, it was put there on purpose.”
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