Friday, August 31, 2012

Dementia at Republican National Convention: how not to win independent voters ... by gimleteye

Clint Eastwood offered borderline dementia to wild Republican applause at the GOP national convention. The mass amnesia encouraged by Jeb! ("Stop blaming my brother!") was another aspect of the GOP effort to herd American voters into its high-walled cattle chutes. Let's be clear on the facts: Barack Obama inherited an economy on the edge of a second Great Depression, triggered by a housing boom that picked the pockets of millions of gullible consumers. "The Ownership Society." Remember? Then, a major war triggered by a Republican administration by lying to the American people. Either dottering old age or mercury poisoning: Clint Eastwood played an authoritarian father in old age, struggling to add a positive result from all that went wrong in the family past. The Eastwood demographic laughed at his line about "mental masochists" but had moderate Republicans scratching their heads and hair, if they had any left after last night.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Also let it be mentioned that Mr Eastwood is a fine Republican example of the sanctity of marriage, he has 7 children by 5 different women.

Geniusofdespair said...

Clint was a train wreck. I tuned in briefly to Rubio and he was pontificating about his FAMILY HISTORY YET AGAIN.

Grayland said...

Gilmeteye, I absolutely agree with you on the environmental issues you have focused on.

Being a moderate and independent, I really don't have anything left to say about the GOP convention, or at least won't share it here because I'm not going to steer to the far "left" or pretend to!

Anonymous said...

First anon, Clint is a libertarian.

Anonymous said...

When will grown-ups be welcome back to the Republican camp?

Anonymous said...

Well 2nd anon he was speaking at the Republican convention. And he's admitted to voting republican presidents going back to Eisenhower and endorsing Nixon, McCain and now Romney.

Anonymous said...

I thought Clint was the NRA party. Or is that the same as the Republicam Party?

Anonymous said...

Does anybody think that Romney or Eastwood would keep General McChrystal on hold for five months when he requested more troops in 2009?
That lack of decision making and putting a finger in the wind as well as failing as the Commander in Chief is why we need to get used to saying President Romney on January 21, 2013. The country is currently without leadership, but it is full of blaming anybody and everybody.

Anonymous said...

I thought Client was dead.

but he looked like a zombie last night.

Anonymous said...

2nd to last anon = I agree with you. It's time for a "change" I can
"hope" for!

Anonymous said...

Genius, Re: Rubio...when ur only claim to fame is being born with Cuban parents that is what you talk about... He represents the son that every elderly Cuban wishes for. Handsome, well spoken and important to the media...

Anonymous said...

...someone should have come and helped Clint comb the back side of his hair .... pobrecito!