Right there. That. Clint Eastwood just popped Rmoneys poll numbers by 5.

[Safetykitten]

Oh yes, yes he did. By the way, he was not talking to us. He was not talking to the NPR crowd. His crowd loved it. He did what they wanted him to do.

[liberallibral]

1. Sadly... you are correct...

[Evergreen Emerald]

2. honestly, I thought you said pooped.

Which, I think is more accurate. He has already secured his base. He needs the middle independents.

[kalli007]

65. I read pooped at first too.....

actually that's why I clicked on the thread!

[Schema Thing]

3. yep, but it will be short lived.

fact checkers and all that.

[Spaldeen]

6. exactly

how'd those fact checkers work out for Ryan?

S'what I thought.

[southernyankeebelle]

4. Just like Alec Baldwin, Eastwood will not effect the outcome.

[Safetykitten]

8. Seriously, you are comparing Alec Baldwin with Clint Eastwood?

[Joe the Revelator]

20. Alec is probably more relevant these days

[terip64]

28. I agree.

[southernyankeebelle]

37. Yep, Eastwood is smart. He was a mayor. Now I don't agree with all his politics but I am trying

to be fair.

[WinkyDink]

60. Mayor of CARMEL; it isn't exactly a major city.

[southernyankeebelle]

68. maybe not but he was still elected.

[itsrobert]

5. Baloney

I am a Clint fan, but he looked like an old crackpot up there.

[Floyd_Gondolli]

18. Absolutely, an epic failure

Lets face it, they could trot Urkel out there and it would scare the shit out of some.

It didn't play well on TV.

At all.

[Safetykitten]

23. It actually was a spectacular success.

[Floyd_Gondolli]

26. you're as confused as Clint was

[alcibiades_mystery]

30. Safetykitten now has a little theory

Better to just walk away and let Safetykitten play with her little ball of yarn. It is irrelevant and entertaining only to her. Safetykitten will always see a smashing Republican success in everything, Gawd knows why, but once she's got it into her head that X is a Smashing Republican Success, she will spend all day and night insisting on it to anyone who will listen. Walk away now, and you'll save yourself an hour or more of foot-stamping condescension and error.

[Safetykitten]

34. Why thank you. By the way, I'm a guy.

[CountAllVotes]

51. Old crackhead is more like it

[A HERETIC I AM]

7. Per favore', non mi rompere' i coglioni, grazie.

Please. Some of us just walked in and haven't been watching TV. Not that I would be watching that god damned circle jerk anyway, but I digress.


What the hell are you talking about?

[Incitatus]

9. I seriously doubt that pathetic display convinced many undecideds or

changed the minds of Obama supporters

[Safetykitten]

10. He was not talking to us. he was talking to the fence sitters.

[Joe the Revelator]

16. And what are you so concerned that independents got from his crazy rambling?

[Jennicut]

17. Even some Repubs on twitter thought he was embarrassing.

Everyone cringed.

[itsrobert]

21. I thought he was talking to a chair

Someone pull your pundit card.

[Floyd_Gondolli]

24. Half of which were embarrassed for him

My oh my how easily some are intimidated.

[Tarheel_Dem]

42. I don't think it's intimidation. Sounds more like a little Mitt/Clint hero worship. Everybody.....

but SafetyKitten, and a few rightwing pundits who are embarrassed as hell, are ripping Clint's ass to bits over that aimlessly strange "performance".

[WinkyDink]

61. Geezers are allowed to sit on fences?

[Sparkly]

11. Who was persuaded to change their vote based on that??

[bigtree]

12. his crowd isn't the crowd that Romney needs to move past the crazies

[Joe the Revelator]

13. AH, I was wondering when you would be concerned...thanks for not disappointing.

[Champion Jack]

14. Nope

[name not needed]

15. Typical post-convention bump.

It'll happen after the DNC as well, and both will even out.

[Terra Alta]

19. no one's mind is going to be changed

by Clint's nonsensical, rambling "speech". Unless people decide to vote for Romney out of pity for Clint.

[highplainsdem]

22. Nope. Romney already had every voter who'd have liked Eastwood's craziness.

[Atman]

25. GET OFF MY LAWN!

If that rambling mess of a speech caused anyone to vote for Mitt...I'm not worried. They won't be able to find their way to the polls, or remember their name once they get there.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

44. No but this might.

[Logical]

27. You saw something different than I did. n-t

[Safetykitten]

29. No, I saw what you saw. The problem is that people like you don't get people that are not completely

comfortable with Obama. This was pitched to them. Right over the plate. He nailed it.

[jsmirman]

32. Your posts in this thread are weird. Clint was sad.

There's nothing special about me that made me see Clint as sad.

Independents, Democrats, Libertarians, Republicans even - all watched that and said, "that man has no idea where the hell he is and what he is doing."

[Lex]

33. It was practically incoherent.

So maybe that appeals to a certain segment.

[NYC Liberal]

35. Sorry, it was a failure of epic proportions.

If it was pitched to undecideds, then it was a foot outside. A wild pitch. Or perhaps a balk.

[Avalux]

48. Please tell me how you are an expert on "people that aren't completely comfortable with Obama"

You started this thread insisting Clint was brilliant and knew exactly what to say to the fence sitters, whom he masterfully persuaded with that bizarre 'speech', then continue to defend your position with posts like this one.

The problem is, my own personal research tells me otherwise, coming from fence sitters I've talked to since then.

So why are you so insistent?

[dionysus]

57. ..because the poster isn't comfortable with Obama. nt

[AtomicKitten]

66. yahtzee

[Avalux]

67. Ding ding ding!!

[2pooped2pop]

53. did you see the full thing or the patched version?

If you see the patched together part, it's not that bad, but way too mild and open minded for the audience. Now note that the patched version only takes like a minute.

the other 10 or 11 minutes was filled with er, ahh, uh, and just rambling.

Clint made a huge fool out of himself. He is unaware of what is causing the very issues he speaks of. He is uninformed. He chose to come out for the repiglican party, unaware that they have become the party that wants to kill 80% of this country.

He will go down in history being remembered for this more than all of his movies. He fucked up and he is getting what he deserves.

[Logical]

75. Why have you not posted an apology yet?

[SmileyRose]

31. yep

Though the pop will last a few days tops

[hifiguy]

36. Sounds like this was the scene

I wouldn't watch a second of this KKKlavern even if free booze was being provided. Can't wait to see the viral videos here on DU though.

[The_Casual_Observer]

38. Opinion and the results of this will be shaped and dictated by the i5 or

5 people on the media that form the group mind. We will have to wait for their judgment.

[itsrobert]

39. Are you still standing by with this assessment

Or will you admit your were (Fonzie Voice) 'wro....' ......'wron...' 'wwwwwwron.....', 'wrong'

[itsrobert]

45. Crickets

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

58. He's busy on his next meme....

....which will likely be "We will lose votes if we criticize rich people at the convention, so please don't do it....I know because....well I know these people trust me".

[progressivebydesign]

40. I'm sorry.. are you referencing a particular poll? Or just speculating...

being sarcastic?

[Chorophyll]

41. Don't know about the poll bump, but I'm so irritated by the people who insist

that his speech was a brilliant piece of performance art.

Nope. Old rightwing white guy talking to old rightwing white guys. Period.

[Tarheel_Dem]

43. Is this a prediction? Or is there something to back it up? Also, can we make fun of you....

when/if it doesn't come true?

[eqfan592]

46. So far only one poll shows a bump of that size that I'm aware of...

...and its the Rasmussen poll.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/sept-1-romneys-convention-bounce-appears-middling-so-far/

Basically, the ball is in Pres. Obama's court. A good convention that produces a solid bump will help a ton and should counter any bump Mitt Romney experienced.

[GoneOffShore]

47. Not even a real bump - one poll

So, as always: Thanks for your concern! Truly.

[Hamlette]

49. where are you seeing a 5% increase for Romney?

Silver says it is a Rassmussen poll, which are always garbage, and it was really a 2% increase.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/sept-1-romneys-convention-bounce-appears-middling-so-far/

and he gives Obama a 73.1% chance of winning.

[karynnj]

50. Your estimate is completely made up and ignores

that he likely had almost all of the NRA. I wonder if when Romney's comment that he was ok with this after it happened is better known, there might be a loss of the very suburban women his entire convention fought to win.

Eastwood's "comedy" was near the depths of the delegates in 2004 wearing purple heart bandaids - it showed a complete lac of respect that most would expect. (The reaction of the delegates should show how hateful they are towards the President.)

[JoePhilly]

52. No. For 12 minutes, Clint was one of those crazy right wing delegates.

For 12 minutes, Clint was an angry old man, screaming at an imaginary Obama, blaming that imaginary Obama for things that never happened or that he didn't do.

For 12 minutes, he became one of those crazy right wing nut jobs. And the nut jobs loved it.

Everyone else saw it found it sad and disturbing. Like watching some mumble to themselves on the subway.

[Yo_Mama]

54. What's the "NPR crowd"?

I'm drawing a blank?

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

56. Oh, you know....

....the ones who also get hit with the "I thought YOU PEOPLE are supposed to be tolerant! HA HA Snicker...." meme too.

[grantcart]

55. I assume that you are falling for Raz.

Other polls did not show it.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/09/01/two_polls_show_no_bounce_for_romney.html

[MjolnirTime]

59. oh dear, the sky is falling!

[WinkyDink]

62. Clint Eastwood looked a doddering old non compos mentis fool. To claim otherwise is Ryanesque nuts.

[AtomicKitten]

63. Nate Silver says your "popped" is poop.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/

Remember, wishful thinking doesn't count.

[Tarheel_Dem]

69. "Your popped is poop"?

By the way, that graphic is awesome.

[SidDithers]

64. Preserved for posterity...

you know, just in case.

Right there. That. Clint Eastwood just popped Rmoneys poll numbers by 5.

Oh yes, yes he did. By the way, he was not talking to us. He was not talking to the NPR crowd. His crowd loved it. He did what they wanted him to do.

Sid

[Ikonoklast]

70. Did you wear onions on your belt, because it was the style at the time?

THAT was 'his crowd'; the incoherent ramblers about things no one else understands or cares about.

[SidDithers]

71. Kick for shits & giggles...nt

Sid

[Tarheel_Dem]

72. More "shits & giggles"?

By the way, has anyone heard from the o.p. lately?

[itsrobert]

73. lol

n/t

[Cali_Democrat]

74. Sarcasm, right?

Please tell me you just forgot this ----->>

[CatWoman]

76. are you high?

[itsrobert]

77. 5 points huh?

[hifiguy]

78. Five people, maybe.nt