Clint Eastwood's Empty Chair Finds an Unlikely Home

[DonViejo]

Source: Slate


By Josh Voorhees | Posted Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, at 10:03 AM ET

The infamous chair now sits in the office of the chairman of the Republican National Committee. But don't worry, the prop isn't there as a happy reminder of how this year's GOP convention and subsequent election played out. Instead, it appears to be serving as something of a reminder of what went wrong for the party. CNN with the details:

The chair Clint Eastwood used as a prop in his rambling and at times incoherent critique of President Barack Obama at the Republican National Convention is now one of the many pieces of political memorabilia in Reince Priebus’ office on 1st Street in Washington.

The chairman of the Republican National Committee gets the joke. It’s the first thing he points out to a reporter before sitting down behind his desk to discuss how his party must dramatically rethink its strategy and message in hopes of recovering from the presidential drubbing of 2012.

Priebus will address his fellow Republicans at a winter meeting in Charlotte this evening, when he plans to lay out an ambitious plan for the GOP to compete in all 50 states come 2016, according to a preview of his remarks provided to Politico. "We must compete in every state and every region, building relationships with communities we haven’t before," he plans to say, adding: "It’s time to stop looking at elections through the lens of ‘battleground states.’ We have four years till the next presidential election, and being a ‘blue state’ is NOT a permanent diagnosis."

Read more: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/01/24/clint_eastwood_s_empty_chair_now_sits_in_rnc_chairman_reince_priebus_office.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content

[MADem]

1. Sounds like he's taking a page from Howard Dean's 50 State Strategy... nt

[woodsprite]

2. Yeah it does, but they got one word wrong...

He said "... to compete in all 50 states..." What he really meant was "... to steal all 50 states..."

[Fearless]

8. Partisan redistrcting will no doubt play a huge part.

If you can't win, cheat. The Republican Party's new motto.

[TlalocW]

3. I wondered what became of that chair

I think it would be funny to try and sell it on Pawn Stars.

TlalocW

[jerseyjack]

4. The joke wasn't the chair ....

The joke was the two asshole candidates.

[albear]

5. GOPigs, you keep that award to being losers

And having your a$s handed to you in 2012 by the public.

[Xipe Totec]

6. Empty Chairs and Empty Tables...

[nick of time]

7. The only appropriate places I can think of where this chair should be

is either an outhouse or the fireplace.

[Cha]

9. Big News.. The Empty Chair as a symbol of what went

wrong in the goprick party. Thank You.

Thanks DV