Clint Eastwood’s Speech Was a Bad Wedding Toast
But the special sequestering was for Romney, not Eastwood. The actor emerged in front of a Man With No Name silhouette drawn across a generic sun-bleached landscape, and started muttering. And kept on muttering. You’ve been to weddings, right, where the best man starts getting too real, and less funny than he thinks, but everyone’s instinct is to root for him and try to find humor? That was what happened.
It might be a mistake to seek meaning from that speech, but Eastwood’s ramble came off like a slightly bored swing voter’s reasons for rejecting Obama. He was happy that Obama won, but then he realized that lots of people were unemployed. He didn’t understand why Obama surged in Afghanistan, when he could have said, “let’s leave today”—a position Mitt Romney does not even hold.
I’m spinning this harder than Romney’s own campaign team, who stood in that ad hoc hallway and looked increasingly fed up as Eastwood kept talking. They must have realized that an epic moment was occurring, and in the Twitter track/viral/LOL media it would overshadow Romney.
