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(Clint) Eastwood Jokes About VP Offer (From McCain; Positive Comments on Palin)
RTE ^ | Tuesday, 7 October 2008

Posted on 10/17/2008 3:42:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Clint Eastwood has joked that he turned down an offer to be John McCain's running mate before the presidential candidate had the chance to ask him, and compared actual VP candidate Sarah Palin to Angelina Jolie.

The multiple Oscar winning actor and director told People magazine: "I was at a function, and a bunch of political types were there. And John McCain was there. He came up to say hello. I said, 'Look, don't even ask it. I will not be your vice president. I have to be on the top of the ticket'.

Aside from turning down the job, Eastwood, a registered Republican, has also come to the defense of actual Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

AdvertisementPalin has found herself the butt of numerous jokes since entering the presidential race but, speaking at the premiere of new film 'Changeling', Eastwood said: "When you find somebody people want to put down.it usually means there is something there they are afraid of."

'Changeling' stars Angelina Jolie and when asked if she and Palin had similarities, Eastwood added: "They are totally different types. But I am saying there is a star quality (they have) that scares a lot of people off."

'Changeling' is due to be released in Ireland on 28 November.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ca2008; eastwood; hollywood; mccain; palin
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1 posted on 10/17/2008 3:42:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Well, there’s ONE favorite of mine who hasn’t turned me off with his political opinion.


2 posted on 10/17/2008 3:44:28 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: nickcarraway

Sarah scares the PANTIES off the liberals!!


3 posted on 10/17/2008 3:45:03 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: nickcarraway

Sure, the left is afraid women will get the notion that feminism isn’t simply a Godless, soulless adherence to abortion.


4 posted on 10/17/2008 3:45:26 PM PDT by Harry Wurzbach (Joe The Plumber & Rep. Thaddeus McCotter are my heroes.)
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To: nickcarraway

Is the “changeling” a story about John McLaim?..


5 posted on 10/17/2008 3:45:35 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: skeeter

Wouldn’t be nice if Angelina Jolie came out and said she supports Palin!


6 posted on 10/17/2008 3:48:33 PM PDT by indianyogi
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To: indianyogi

I’m afraid we’ll have to settle for her daddy.


7 posted on 10/17/2008 3:51:50 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Ann Archy
They wear panties?

How bourgeois.

8 posted on 10/17/2008 3:52:36 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Bushonomics: Privatize Gains, Socialize Losses......."PAULSON'S THEFT")
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To: nickcarraway
I didn't know Eastwood was a registered Republican. I thought he'd gone Constitutional or something else.
9 posted on 10/17/2008 3:52:47 PM PDT by Ciexyz
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10 posted on 10/17/2008 3:53:20 PM PDT by avacado (Barack Obama, the Cloward-Piven candidate)
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I always sort of hoped for a Heston/Eastwood ticket.....that would have been cool! The NRA President/Dirty Harry ticket...


11 posted on 10/17/2008 3:53:35 PM PDT by Bobalu (Obama cannot win without the kind of people that Palin appeals to.)
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To: nickcarraway
"Star quality?"


You betcha!


12 posted on 10/17/2008 3:55:29 PM PDT by Upstate NY Guy
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To: Ann Archy

Sarah scares the PANTIES off the liberals!!

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And that’s just the men.


13 posted on 10/17/2008 3:57:06 PM PDT by word_warrior_bob (You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
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To: Bobalu

Rather see Dirty Harry as secretary of defense. I thought about a political cartoon back when Reagan was president showing Reagan sitting in the oval office with Gorbachev and Clint standing in the background with the dirty harry suit and sunglasses.
Caption “Oh by the way Mikail, allow me to introduce you to my new secretary of defense!”


14 posted on 10/17/2008 3:58:55 PM PDT by Always Independent
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To: indianyogi

She has changed her position on Iraq.. who knows, maybe her and her estranged dad are talking again?


15 posted on 10/17/2008 4:00:01 PM PDT by mnehring (We Are Joe!)
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To: Ciexyz

Long time registered Republican. I think you are thinking of Chuck Norris. He said something nice about a Libertarian recently and they tried to claim him, even if he was in Huck’s camp.


16 posted on 10/17/2008 4:01:32 PM PDT by mnehring (We Are Joe!)
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To: nickcarraway
compared actual VP candidate Sarah Palin to Angelina Jolie.

Ick. About the only thing I liked Jolie in was "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" where she was flying a fighter jet and wearing an eyepatch and . . . .

hmmmmmm
I wonder how Gov. Palin would look with an eyepatch . . .

17 posted on 10/17/2008 4:02:08 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Teachers open the door. It's up to you to enter. Before the late bell. When I close the door.)
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I don’t know, I think Sarah would look good as Lady Croft, with a couple of Desert Eagles strapped to her hips.


18 posted on 10/17/2008 4:11:35 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: nickcarraway

[’Look, don’t even ask it. I will not be your vice president]

What a presumptive statement for him to make.

A good reply from McCain could have been..”Actually I was going to ask for your autograph but since you brought it up, you’re are too old and too Hollywood for me”


19 posted on 10/17/2008 4:23:24 PM PDT by RetSignman (DEMSM: "If you tell a big enough lie, frequently enough, it becomes the truth")
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[’Look, don’t even ask it. I will not be your vice president]

What a presumptive statement for him to make.

A good reply from McCain could have been..”Actually I was going to ask for your autograph but since you brought it up, you’re are too old and too Hollywood for me”


20 posted on 10/17/2008 4:23:54 PM PDT by RetSignman (DEMSM: "If you tell a big enough lie, frequently enough, it becomes the truth")
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