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Subscribe to RSSActor and director Clint Eastwood has been confirmed as a surprise guest Thursday night at the Republican National Convention.
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Director/actor Clint Eastwood accepts the award for Distinguished Collaborator onstage during the 14th Annual Costume Designers Guild Awards With Presenting Sponsor Lacoste held at The Beverly Hilton hotel on February 21, 2012 in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Eastwood recently thrust his support behind GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who will receive his official nomination at the convention tonight.
Earlier this year, a Chrysler ad narrated by Eastwood that aired during the Super Bowl appeared to endorse President Barack Obama, prompting the actor to respond that he was not backing either candidate. He then went on to voice his support for Romney earlier this month at a fundraiser in Idaho.
Eastwood will address the convention Thursday night in Tampa, Fla., before Romney accepts his nomination. Romney will be introduced by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.
NBC's Kelly O'Donnell and Sue Kroll contributed to this story.
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Do your homework on Clint and you will see he is greedy, agressive !%er all the way. While your at it, check out his wife's trash reality show, 'Eastwood and Company". The Eastwood's are true American all for me Republican's with green running through their veins and lost souls.
aaaah, spoken like a true democratic. Their success is not YOUR failure. Get over yourself! Just because someone is financial wealthy, shouldn't mean they need to go around apologizing for it or try to compensate by living in adobe houses. Why is it every 'the rich keep getting richer' comments I hear are ALWAYS from some democrat who's so worried about what others are earning and working for? You obviously have NO clue about Clint's story and his childhood, do you?
fitzme, are YOU wealthy?
Will I don't watch his movies and he wants the regulations for gun control to change for the worse. Just another actor following the other dumbo, Romney.
It is unreal how Obama is blamed for the mess we are in. Many of the current deals with other countries were in place before he was elected. He is trying to bring back manufacturing jobs given out to foreign countries providing the corporations not only with a tax break but not having to pay benefits for to employees.
If Romney is elected with that other bird brain, Ryan, seniors and the middle class will suffer. The lower class would become non-existence. Only those who are millionaires will survive. They will have no tax increases only tax cuts.
...@my: "It's unreal how Obama is blamed for the mess we're in" ...LMAO!!! ...Get a grip, buddy! Who do you want us to blame? ...Someone who hasn't been in charge of running America for the past FOUR YEARS? ...Well, gosh, that sure would be good for the moron currently in the White House, but it wouldn't be true.
I thought Eastwood was dead, oh yeah that's his career. A Romney/Ryan presidency is the end of Freedom and free enterprise in America. @!$%# you Neo-Cons.
None of you know what Clint will say. This is another example of Republicans taking unecessary risk in the throws of their desperation. Watch Bronco Billy again---do you really think Clint is a right wing a$$hole? Or take a look at his more recent works like Iwo Jima, good luck idiots!
Ryan's nose grew so much last night that the glass on my TV shattered. I learned more about him from that speech than anytime before. Forget about the Medicare LIES, forget about the Healthcare LIES, forget about the National Debt LIES...This guy wants us to go to WAR with six countries if he gets elected, including CHINA!!!!
Yesterday Romney was asked if his policies are different than Bush's. Romney did not say yes, he said his policies would be like no one has seen before.
Obama and Clinton were right! Romney and ryan are Bush/Cheney on STEROIDS.
GO AHEAD REPUBLICANS, make our day!!!!!
Romney saying that his policies will be like nothing we've seen before is what keeps me awake at night!
Hey Numbskull, Clinton de-regulated the Banks that caused the melt-down. And he signed NFTA into law that was the mother of all out-sourcing.
Are you just stupid or brain-washed, ah both!
You're in idiot BO2012 - Ryan never said he wanted to go to war with China. He wants to return this country to it's greatness... something we LOST when Obama made his debut around the world APOLOGIZING to world leaders.
Exactly, go ahead rightwingnuts, make my day is totally correct. It will be an unparalled disaster for our Constitution (they'll draft a new version point 2.0), our economy, freedom, liberty, and creativity which of course is the fuel that drives innovation. And then they'll get us into a world war with all the false CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS carrying the banners of HATE the world over. Until they nuke us. Don't kid yourselves, these goons will destroy 250 years of progressive growth in a blink of an diseased eyeball. These are dangerously ignorant deceivers who mix lies with the truth. Gotta love that, if you're a minion of Satan as they truly are.
Is he going to give them acting lessons so they can look concerned when they aren't, knowledgeable when they haven't a clue, compassionate when they have no heart or just tips on their divisive song and dance show that we have grown so use to.???
You said it so well.
"compassion and heart".... ah... yes, the key word tiggers of a Democrat. This country is going down the tubes because you bleeding hearts are voting without using your heads.
Sorry you apparently lost yours fitz but that's your problem and hopefully never ours. Speaking of going down the tubes...how did you like the eight horrendous years with bush and reagan to name just a couple of your "winners"???
sbstalite-- Wow I thought your hatred and intolerence only spewed out for the Christians, but your hatred knows no bounds. Speaking of not looking concerned, what about Obama and his cronies giving 535 million in taxpayer money to one of his doners (Solyndra) only to have them immediately declare backruptcy, leaving taxpayers on the hook. Obama never took responsibility, said he was sorry or even took the time to look concerned.
How is it that Clint Eastwood in his seventies, people stand in awe of and Ron Paul in his seventies you all call crazy.
The stupidity of something like that can't be fixed.
Sorry Clint, but all your movies are going into the trash and you're on my permanent S list, like maniac Tom Cruise, but obviously for different reasons. I guess I could have figured it out from his movies, but it's another thing to be a figure in the repub convention, which implies much more radicalism.
How does one go his entire career making blue collar movies, then strap on the white collar and kiss corruptions white, dimpled ass?
Oh, I get it - white working class voters. Guess we're still scurred of the minorities after all. Damn shame Clint, guess you weren't the guy we all though you were. I get the conservative bit, but grow a spine and stand up for the working class...maybe throw in a speech about love, and then crush it with a follow up speech about how this isn't the time for love o_O
I have even more respect for Mr. Eastwood for going against the grain of Hollywood liberalism. He is a man of honor and integrity. All those so called Hollywood A-listers, like Clooney, are just sheep following their masters. Their masters are of course the ones that hire them to act, most of which are liberals. Of course they are going to publicly state their support for liberal politicians, to do otherwise would cost them their careers. However, I have often wondered how they actually vote on election day when no one is looking.
So, what you are saying is that only Republicans are of honor and integrity? Get a life. Also, in case you haven't noticed, people choose their party line based on their beliefs. You stating that liberals are following "masters" is just so moronic. That would be like me saying that all Republicans are war mongering, racist, greedy, selfish a$$ holes. If you are going to make a statement, at least have the integrity to make a statement that sounds educated based.
Alaska Girl, I think you could benefit from a course in reading comprehension. My comment was specifically about liberalisim in Hollywood and that most actors follow that lead. You know that's a fact, everyone knows that! However, like a typical liberal, you pick out buzz words from a comment and spin it to something that fits your preconceived notion of what a person is saying. How disingenuous is that.
Way to stereotype people there, Bobby.
You betcha sweetheart, now get back in the kitchen and make dinner for your husband.
I'm sure george looney does while he's living in his villa in Italy.....You go Clint it's time that the American people told Obama to 'GET OFF MY LAWN'
Great character actor with that rugged image of his, but my view of his depth and intellect is permanently tarnished now. He must be a a simple-minded ideologue. I had no problem with him being Republican in the past, if he'd spoken for Reagan or Bush senior, for example, but to embrace this bunch, who have taken over the party today, I'm just sorry he doesn't seem to have the guts or depth of thinking/political acumen to criticize his party & fight for what it used to be, not support what it's become. For me, this man's mystique has definitely dimmed.
Our debt was not $1 trillion more than our GDP when Reagan or Bush were in office.
Our situation is dire. Clint knows this. That is why he feels the need to speak.
Haaaaaaaaaaaa....Clint making Obama's day for him. Obama has to be wondering if there is one bullet left in the gun and go to Chicago to be safe...LMBO
who cares........ the democrats will have someone from the hollywood gang speak on their behalf as well. I don't see why the democrats get so bent out of shape over petty things. It's the debt, deficits, JOBS, lack of a plan and no leadership that did them in. This election will be a landslide for the GOP.
Landslide? It's going to be tight and could go either way so, no landslide.
It's cute that you believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary. Now that's "faith-based" governance!
Wow, gotta love the simpleton's approach to economic revival. Elect the same jackholes who OUTSOURCED AND OFFLOADED AMERICAN MANUFACTURING in the first place. Yea, that's it, bring in the same ghouls who couldn't give a sh*t about you or your job, who already raped the banks and now want Social Security as well. The new right wing, hoping and praying for Mitt's magic wand to make it all better. And they will, FOR THEMSELVES, and the average republican dupe isn't being factored into that equation. Kiss the good life goodbye, but at least as you BEG FOR FOODSTAMPS (and they'll be none available of course) you can pride yourself that you and your ilk are WINNERS. What a collective of sociopaths and psychotics.
Harry, I gotsta Know????
Everything Clint does,he does right !!...Go Romney, Ryan in Nov.
Well anyhow....they didn't have to pry the rifle out of Charlton Heston's cold dead hands...it eventually just fell out.
It will be interesting to see the impact old man Eastwood will make on the convention.
This should be interesting. A real Republican is going to show up.
When Clint speaks, liberal heads will explode....Go Romney,Ryan in Nov.
Liberals are already squirming like night crawlers on a hook. And Clint has not even said a word yet! LOL! Now that is entertaining.
Sweetie, you don't even know what he's going to say yet...do you?
Here is one of the reasons this "liberal" really likes Clint Eastwood:
I quote this from the intertubes- source Wiki, not the best but certainly not the worst.
-For his two year term in office, Clint fulfilled to his own satisfaction, all his major campaign promises. Among them, he made it easier to build or to renovate property. He got a tourist parking lot constructed. He remodeled The Mission Ranch and preserved the precious landscape it was on which was supposed to be demolished in favor of 80 condominiums. He also opened the library annex which is dedicated for children's use, and it is said to be the accomplishment of which he is most proud.
Ya see folks this isn't about right or left (libtard, repubtard- Really?), this is about what WE as Americans really want.
For Fark sake it's right in our nation's most important document, Pursuit of Happiness etc. Scratching each others eyes out over our stupid petty differences isn't doing us any favors. We all want security and freedom, equality and to be left the hell alone. We all want a fair shake at a piece of the pie. Well our eyes ain't on the pie now are they? They're on each other over social issues, wedge issues.
It's not a "vast right wing conspiracy" it's not a Communist/Mooslim takeover.
It's Pavlovs dogs in a farking parlor trick. Can you say Oligarchy?
Actually Jakehole, it really is a vast rightwing conspiracy with legions of small brained minions working every single day of their sad impotent lives trying to make life worse for others. This is a conspiracy of philosophy that is rampant in burgeoning FASCIST REGIMES the world over.
Way to go, Clint! I always knew you were a smart guy!
you cant do this the dixey chicks did the same thing huh tea party
just think if he went to a democrat convention..his entertainment would be over huh tea party..just like the dixey chicks
The Republicans have Clint Eastwood and the Democrats have Sean Penn, go figure! One loves his country and the other wishes we were part of Venezuela.
you cant act or sing..say what you want.. and be a voice for a politician ask the Dixie chicks
...The liberals are jealous the GOP has Clint. ...Just listen to them whine! ...LMAO!!!
Your desperation and deflection is sort of cute. In a sad way.
I will take George Clooney or Robert Redford any day over Clint Eastwood. There is a long list of Hollywood celebs who endorse President Obama.
Ha George Clooney? Overrated no talent putz....lol
Could you be anymore childish?
Clint doesn't like screeching little beyatches.
Yep, an OLD MAN BORE of an actor staging his "Coming Out" party as the rightwingnut's keynote speaker is a real blow in the quest for freedom, decency, equality and liberty. Here's an utter douchebag who in actuality lives a life that runs contrary to the bulk of his brave and courageous action adventure films. Wow, Clint the Great is a rightwinger, who could a known, what a surprise, what an epiphany, what a relevation, what a colossal BORE.