I finally watched the Eastwood "speech" - been traveling - my wife, daughter and I

[NRaleighLiberal]

sat there, I suspect, with a suspicion of "WTF" on each of our faces. What an incoherent, slightly (or more than slightly) insane, disconnected ramble of ....what, really? Lots of projection (all of the "what did you say? I can't do that to myself" nonsense - as if Obama would stoop to the classlessness of Cheney), some simple and stupid slogans.

But mostly, I thought, here is the embodiment of the dying right wing. Here is the presage of the coming extinction of intolerance, greed, and hate. All rolled up into the pathetic scene of an old man yelling at an empty chair.

[hlthe2b]

1. I still become cringingly uncomfortable just thinking about it. It was truly pathetic

[immoderate]

2. They are like shmoos. When you kill one, two take its place.

I know -- it's sad.


--imm

[Fumesucker]

3. Eastwood is an accomplished actor, director and writer, I think he knew exactly what he was doing..

Bear in mind that making movies is a complex process that requires a great deal of forethought and planning.

He punctured both Romney's speech and the RNC very handily and with a great deal of plausible deniability.

[n2doc]

5. He was, once. n/t

[Fumesucker]

6. Evidently he's still a good enough actor to fool you..

Did you think this was a serious letter, too?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021188800

[n2doc]

7. I don't buy that he was a plant

Perhaps you are the gullible one.

[Cleita]

10. I don't think so either.

It's too far fetched to believe he would have concocted such a byzantine plan.

[Fumesucker]

11. Yep, gullible people don't take things at face value, right?

[Journeyman]

4. You mean the little playlet Jon Stewart called: "The Old Man and the Seat"? . . .

[Cleita]

8. So you are saying the Republican Party is showing signs

of Alzheimer's before it dies?

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. .