Clint is not Harry.

Tonight at the Republican convention the secret guest who is no longer a secret is Clint Eastwood.  I guess that Willard  thinks that Clint's tough guy image will be of great benefit to him. Of course the delegates are so stupid it probably will. Never mind that he was born in gay old San Francisco, a shame in itself. Or, that he has 7 children by 5 different women,though he has only been married twice—hardly suggestive of solid Christian values.  Or that during his long-ago youth he worked as a grocery clerk, paper carrier, lifeguard, firefighter and low paying jobs that Republicans seem to look down on. All these daffy conventioneers know is that Clint was the Man with No Name in spaghetti westerns, the Magnum-carrying Dirty Harry and the crusty old bigot in Gran Torino. No question he was a good-enough actor and  relatively good, though overrated, director. But do these hero-worshipping delegates remind themselves that to be a star he had to sit in makeup every day, have his hair styled and sip his latte while his stuntmen did the dangerous scenes. Hardly a tough-guy in real life. Well, no doubt this wrinkled octogenarian will receive tumultuous applause because these naive people believe Eastwood is the super-hero, no bullshit, tough guy he plays. What's really sad is that he believes it. By the way, what he doesn't believe in is Christ and organized religion. He leans more to two isms: Buddhism and atheism.

Most shocking of all: According to the 1989 lawsuit  filed in Superior Court in Los Angeles,Sondra  Locke, 41, suffered "humiliation, mental anguish...severe emotional and physical distress and...mental and physical harm" during her 13-year relationship with Mr. Eastwood including two abortions  allegedly done at Eastwood's request. 

Postscript: As I suspected Clint got tumultuous applause even though he behaved like a dottering old fool.The fact that Romney permitted this senile actor to go onstage without any idea of what he was going to do gives you some idea of how wel-prepared Romney would be as president.