Before it becomes history or too late to say anything I just want to mention one thing and say, I love Clint Eastwood and I don't care who knows it.
I don’t know if we are diametrically opposed to each other
politically. The fact that he is an avowed conservative who believes in equal
rights, pro-choice, the environment and ant-war is not very far from my own slightly
left of Karl Marx when the feeling’s right beliefs and who doesn’t believe in
big government but believes the George Orwell quote that some of us are moreequal than others. I think we have a common ground where we can worship on.
I’m not talking about the area where he’s been making movies
for the last 50 years and I’ve been watching them for the last 30, although
that might help explain my feelings for him. I’m talking about the fact that we
both see and acknowledge the same issue or problem and neither one of us are
satisfied with what the solution has been. Clint’s idea to solve things, at
least on film, has always been to go in growling, teeth bared and with a big
dick swinging in the wind. Don’t believe me, look at the clip below and tell me
the Magnum isn’t a substitute for a body part. My solution has always been to
wait for the Revolution and give or take names like Madame Defarge did in the
Dickens novel although I doubt that would be any more effective Clint’s answer.
Even so, to have been able to see The Outlaw Josey Wales at
the Republican Convention take down the President of the United States just by
doing some simple local diner ad hoc scene was a sight to be remembered as only a top-notch director could have done.
It was just unfortunate that it was so good and out shone everything else that
when Mitt came along to state his own case, no one really cared and more than
that no one really listened.
But like I said earlier I love Clint Eastwood, and if he
were running for something I might look at the GOP and see if there was some
way that I could find myself supporting them. But instead of The Outlaw Josey Wales
running they have my governor The Outlaw Jersey Whale standing in front of that moving blue screen making me feel sea-sick, and that bitch I’ll never
support.
