he's clint eastwood. >> if you wake up tomorrow and all of the headlines are clint eastwood goes bunkers, that's not good for you, is it? >> they won't be and i'll tell you why. mitt romney had a killer speech tonight. he talked about his positive vision for the country and wants to successfully and very effectively prosecuted the case against barack obama and talks about what is important to him. so that's what americans want to hear. we have the obligation to talk about the big differences between our campaign and what president obama has done and when you look at what mitt romney wants to do, he wants to have a stronger middle class with more jobs and takehome pay compared to what this president has done with the 23 million americans struggling to find work. >> i've got to be honest, i rather enjoyed the speech. i've seen twitter, some people loved it and i thought he did a solid job they are 70 days left. where we'll go from tampa is to all of the targeted states and we'll take the same message. we will continue to contrast governor romney's positive mission. americans are not happy

>> clint eastwood is clint eastwood. he did do some improving to make a serious point that 23 million americans are out of work and it is a very big deal and time for a change. >> you must have been a bit queasy. he was supposed to speak for five minutes. he ad libbed for another seven. at one point, you have dirty harry talking to an empty chair. >> he ad libbed but he was making a very serious point. the crowd loved it. you can't look at clint eastwood, an american icon. you can't look at him through the same political lens you would other politicians. he is clint eastwood. >> if you wake up tomorrow and the headlines are, clint eastwood goes bonkers. >> they won't be, because mitt romney had a killer speech. he did three things that were very important for him to do. he talked about his positive vision for the future and where he wants to take this country. he suck sisfully and very effectively prosecuted the case against barack obama and finally, he talk td about what's important to him. that's what americans want to

clint eastwood is an icon, a fabulous actor. but you put somebody up on the stage where you have 20 million people watching. he's supposed to be making the case why mitt romney needs to replace the current president and that was a complete whiff of the ball. >> who is he supposed to appeal? >> apparently no one in the chair because there's nobody in the chair. >> we know that romney's doing well with women, latinos, with white males, certain age groups -- >> he's got the white males. >> who is clint eastwood designed to appeal to? >> maybe it seemed too cute by an inch -- i don't know. i'll go home this weekend on my way to charlotte and i'll ask people, what did you think of the clint eastwood thing? >> you don't have to ask people that. go online. >> my people in south carolina don't know what online is. >> you're meaning your family. >> yeah. i'll ask my brother. he'll probably say, it was pretty damn weird. it was weird. i don't get it. >> michael moore said, clint eastwood drove home to tens of millions of viewers the centr

of clint eastwood? >> he is a great man. >> you're still with him, anybody have a problem with him. apparently the blog has been very, very tough. >> he was cute, but it was not effective. >> do you think he was disrespectful of the president? i thought it should have been at the golden globes or something, not at the republican national convention. >> it looked like he was talking to his imaginary friend. >> did romney get to you tonight? did he show he was not a robot, but a human? >> i don't think so, if president romney had gotten rid of the stock market -- >> i think mitt romney proved that he is more than capable of being the new president. and jobs are the issues, and he creates jobs. >> i think the whole night turned it for me. basically all the staples, founders, all the experience he had, the olympics. >> you think he is a job creator? >> yes, he proved it. >> miss, you got your food, but you want to talk about this? >> i missed the entire thing, i was at hooters. >> okay, thank you, what do y

clint eastwood, the talk of tampa and most of the political world. he talked to an empty chair pretending president obama was there. let me bring in msnbc political analyst richard wolffe and michael sheerer. before we get to clint eastwood, richard, how did mitt romney do? >> i did think he was good for him. it may be a low bar to say he's a wooden speaker, but he showed emotion. he introduced his family story, his personal story very well. the clip you just played, the most powerful, most sustained theme of his message, the idea that we wanted obama to succeed, he just didn't. there's just one small problem with that -- is that paul ryan, his vp pick and the entire senior leadership of the republicans on inaugural day were plotting how to make this president a failure. so if his pitch is i can cure this country and heal it and bring an end to the division, you've got to wonder why he picked someone like paul ryan. >> yet, michael, if his pitch really was aimed mostly at that 10% of voters that are going to decide this election, the message is don't

by -- >> clint eastwood. >> yeah. i didn't get the empty chair, but i thought it was a go ahead night for our -- good night for our side. >> how about mitt romney? >> you forget how good he is. i think ann romney set him up perfectly after her speech the other night and her command of the stage, commanding silence, using silence as a weapon almost. all he really had to do was be genuine, be himself and he was. you know, i think he's so good that people forget how good he is. >> he's a good man. is he a good leader, a good public official? he doesn't seem comfortable in that role. >> he's tremendously comfortable in that role. he grasps responsibility. when there was a disaster in the big dig in the mass turnpike he grabbed it and said i want authority over this and he took it and cleaned the thing up like with the olympics. never more comfortable than when making decisions. i would describe him as a born executive with a ton of discipline. that may strike some people as formality but you want a commander in chief that

many talked about clint eastwood's entitled show "the invisible man." and 41-year-old senator marco rubio, drawing big praise, for the vision he laid down in his speech to introduce mitt romney. this morning, mitt romney hit the campaign trail on a freshly wrapped plane that shows he is the official nominee of the republican party. he will hold a rally in virginia, where he appears alongside his running mate, paul ryan. and a night nobody will forget, from clint eastwood, to marco rubio, to romney himself. the former governor of massachusetts making an entrance as he made the rope line towards the stage. he made appeal, as did many speakers this week to women voters, talking about the parents who shaped his values. >> my mom and dad were true partners. a life lesson that shaped me by everyday example. when my mom ran for the senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. i could still see her saying in her beautiful voice, why should women have any less say than men about the great decisions facing our nation? don't you wish you could have been

he's clint eastwood. >> if you wake up tomorrow and all of the headlines are clint eastwood goes bunkers, that's not good for you, is it? >> they won't be and i'll tell you why. mitt romney had a killer speech tonight. he talked about his positive vision for the country and wants to successfully and very effectively prosecuted the case against barack obama and talks about what is important to him. so that's what americans want to hear. we have the obligation to talk about the big differences between our campaign and what president obama has done and when you look at what mitt romney wants to do, he wants to have a stronger middle class with more jobs and take-home pay compared to what this president has done with the 23 million americans struggling to find work. >> i've got to be honest, i rather enjoyed the speech. i've seen twitter, some people loved it and i thought he did a solid job they are 70 days left. where we'll go from tampa is to all of the targeted states and we'll take the same message. we will continue to contrast governor romney's positive mission. americans are not happy

clint eastwood. everybody has an opinion including, of course, ann romney. and i got to play it again because, again, the words of what ann romney said when you read them do not do the justice. you have to watch her reaction. here she is. >> do you wish that video had aired in prime time instead of clint eastwood's monologue? >> you know, i think it's important that people do see that side of mitt. we appreciated clint's support, of course, but yes, i do wish more people had seen -- had seen those touching moments. >> well, that was the first part of the question, of course, we played earlier the second part. obviously ann romney didn't think the clint eastwood thing went that well. what do you think? >> i'll add perspective on conversation. "space cowboys" was much worse than what clint eastwood said last night. voters won't remember it. voters will remember that clint eastwood was there, but they won't remember how completely awkward it was. >> however, it is the first thing you saw when an additional 15 to 20 million people tuned in at that 10:00 hour on

clint eastwood. >> they said it was a mystery speaker. what we didn't realize was it was a mystery to them as well. >> surprise. >> surely, they did not expect everybody to be talking about this. the nominee gave a perfectly serviceable speech. quite a good speech, but it's lost in this now. i guess i blame hurricane isaac for just jumbling the whole thing up and they just got some bad karma. >> i'm not so sure about that. karen, i want to play one bit of sound from last night from the nominee himself because that's who we should be talking about. a bit where he paid tribute to the late neil armstrong. >> that unique blend of optimism, humility and the utter confidence that when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an american. >> some people have suggested that was a little nod towards those who believe the president, the current president is something other than an american. >> i also sort of took it as this idea, remember in the beginning of the campaign, romney was talking about and we've heard him, he doesn't

i think clint eastwood is iconic. i think most people out there, most americans will actually remember the clint eastwood endorsing and supporting mitt romney in this election and then they will move on to the issues they care about most, which is did he give them the confidence to lead them for the next four years and are the policies what we need. that's where we are in this campaign. >> fair enough. in fact, the "new york times" laid it out on the front page today, that this is really a marriage and some would say a bad marriage, and what the romney campaign has to do is persuade americans that they really want to divorce this man they fell in love with, barack obama. that's the "new york times" analogy. here's one of the moments from that speech last night. >> how many days have you woken up feeling that something really special was happening in america. many of you felt that way on election day four years ago, hope and change had a powerful appeal. but tonight, i would ask a simple question. if you felt that exci

i was rather surprised -- >> clint eastwood also has an appeal to women. i just thought i'd mention that. just think about that. >> you understand that celebrity endorsements have a very low yield in turning out votes. >> i'm sure you're endorsement carries a lot of weight, john. don't be modest. >> all celebrity endorsement. the exception of this is oprah. >> let's see if clint eastwood actually campaigns with romney. i suspect he will not. >> why? >> i don't think he'll campaign with him. let's see. if he does -- >> do you recall, there was another gentleman who had a hollywood event, a dinner, and he gave the proceeds of that dinner to barack obama's campaign. who was that? >> lots of hollywood figures. >> david geffen. >> do you know who dells that? i'm talking about a hollywood actor. >> george clooney. >> george clooney did that. he threw the dinner, and he -- >> well, no, you can give up to about $31,000 to the obama victory fund. >> he gave about 20,000. >> and that's what each head, each person was paying. obama throws a ton of these in new york a

as for clint eastwood, yes, you're right. a lot of people are sort of shaking their heads and saying, what was that all about last night? you could say that clint eastwood certainly had a sudden impact if i may use one of his movie titles there, but the campaign is putting out a statement there this morning, a bit of pushback on the criticism of eastwood, saying, yes, this was improv, but putting out this statement. judging an american icon like clint eastwood through a typical political lens doesn't work. his ad libbing was a break from the political speeches and the crowd enjoyed it. he rightly pointed out that 23 million americans are out of work or underemployed and that's a national disgrace and it's time for a change --. . clint eastwood referred to 23 million unemployed people, and we have known now for a while that is not accurate, carol. >> it's more like 12 million, right? which is still a lot of people unemployed. >> that's right. you add the underemployed in there to get to 23 million. and that's a number that the

the clint eastwood that we know, the image of the clint eastwood we know, and it was disappointing. i sort of felt like where were his people to say no, we're not letting him go out on stage with his hair unbrushed and just wing it. >> i had the impression clint said yes, i'll do it and they said what do you want to do and he said i'll just think of something and they said fine. that's a mistake. the very least he should have asked for an opening line. >> exactly. >> look what's happened. i have been sitting out here for six or seven minutes. what have we been talking about? mitt romney? no. that's the take-home from last night's event. >> let us talk about mitt romney, he whose name shall not be mentioned. how did mitt romney do last night, in terms of presenting his case as an actor? >> not as an actor but as a performer, let's say. he's not an actor. >> yes. sorry. >> i would say that he has certainly improved, without question. he was more confident. he was more assertive. he was more relaxed. and let us now ask why. he was preaching to the converted. he was, as we say, preachin

as weird as it seemed to us. >> stephanie: well, he is clint eastwood. but i felt awkwardness. >> it was very awkward, but he made the gop acknowledge [ inaudible ]. and it is also so weird that this is for mitt romney who said let detroit go bankrupt. you have mr. halftime in america with mr. let's throw the game. >> stephanie: but i thought he got up on the stage with a chair said a lot. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: the president had the best tweet. ho is sitting in the oval office chair and he said this seat is taken. [♪ circus music ♪] >> she said ann romney looked seriously perturbed. >> stephanie: mitt's speech i thought was shallow and full of lies. >> i thought it was a fine speech. >> i think cenk said it was going to be forgettable, and then i just forgot about it. >> stephanie: we spent the first several minutes talking about the eastwood speech. >> and the rose story was awkward. he said my mother got a rose every day and the day she didn't she knew his father was dead. >> well he showed real emotion for the first time in his life. >> his f

and it was all working, putting clint eastwood aside. what i thought was interesting is if you compare it back to the dnc obama speech of 2008 where he didn't really have a lot of those personal testimonials because clearly obama is very comfortable talking about himself and his life and he connects very well with an audience when he's doing that. mitt, as we know, has a trickier time. what did you make of the night and then finally capped off by romney's speech itself? >> well, i thought they blew a huge opportunity by actually lousy choreographing. you want, especially in a candidate who you really need to get the american people to learn about, to learn what's in his gut, you want those testimonials from people who knew him and people he helped, you want that very good ten-minute video. you want those to be saen scene -- seen by the maximum amount of americans. that's the people watching on tv between the hours of 10:00 and 11:00. the fox viewers are a tenth of the office and the political junkies who already have their minds made up.

clint eastwood's weird performance. but i do have to ask you sometimes we're our own worst enemy, i'm afraid, jamal. michael moore who i have always loved, been to every one of his movies, he was the champion of universal healthcare, you know, fahrenheit. 9-11. but he gave an interview with "huffington post" yesterday and he said it is all over. romney is going to win because they're going to have more money so we may as well get used to saying president mitt romney. >> yeah, you know, michael moore has been -- he has made some good movies. he's from michigan like i am. he made the good movie about flint. he's a little bit of a loose cannon. in 2004, he came and did an event for us when he was supposed to be endorsing general clark in new hampshire and talking about general clark's -- and he attacked the president as a draft dodger. it sent our campaign into a whirlwind. >> bill: thank you michael moore. >> thank you for that. so, you want him on your side but you don't necessarily always want him out-front. >> bill: he

a rambling clint eastwood and his chair. tonight we've got an exclusive interview with the man himself. we'll get to him in a minute. honestly, i woke up this morning and i wasn't sure it really happened, but right before the biggest speech of governor romney's life, this happened. >> i've got mr. obama sitting here, and he's -- i just was going to ask him a couple questions. how do you handle promises that you made when you were running for election and how do you handle, how do you handle it? what do you say to people? do you just -- what do you mean shut up? i'm not going to shut up. it's my turn. i think if you just kind of stepped ide and mr. romney can kind of take over, you can still use the plane. though maybe a smaller one. speaking out for everybody out there, it doesn't hurt, we don't have to be -- i don't say that word anymore. well, maybe one last time. i'll start it, you finish it. go ahead -- >> make my day! >> thank you. >> yes, america, it was not a dream. from washington to hollywood, it's all anyone is tal

quickly, you two. >> i'm a big clint eastwood fan. i think he's thrilling. i guess i'm in the over 50 group that david is talking about. i was thoroughly disappointed to see my hero look so uncertain and you know, incoherent is probably too strong. it didn't seem to hold together. i never got what is the message, what is the point. it seemed a little bit degrading to the president. i wasn't comfortable with that. >> brit: one thing. it stretched on. he had 5 minutes and it went 12 minutes. it pushed back the romney speech. >> generally when there's a consensus among the washington press corps that something is awful and horrendous, i like it. that wasn't necessarily the case this time around. the big practical problem is that we spent a lot of time today, everybody spent a lot of time today talking about clint eastwood and not mitt romney and not marco rubio. this program last night was meant to highlight marco rubio. many more minutes spent talking about east wood than marco rubio. > >> brit: next up, the friday lightning round. blac follow the wings. >> br

clint eastwood. susan mcginnis is in tampa with more on this. good morning to you. a lot of folks shaking their heads. >> absolutely at clint eastwood's speech and then there's mitt romney, who talking to folks here, he definitely delivered last night. he promised no new taxes on the middle class and 12 million new jobs. mitt romney got a standing ovation as he entered the convention hall for the biggest speech of his life. >> i am proud to introduce to you the next president of the united states of america, mitt romney. >> and romney wasted little time making his nomination official. >> i accept your nomination for president of the united states. >> he focused on his life, including an emotional nod to his parents. >> my mom and dad were true partners. a life lesson that shaped me by everyday example. when my mom ran for the senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. >> and then he went to work, laying out why he believes he should win in november. >> i have a plan to create 12 million new jobs. >> and why he thinks president obama should not win. >> y

clint eastwood. susan mcginnis? >> absolutely at clint eastwood's speech and then there's mitt romney, who talking to folks here, he definitely delivered last night. he promised no new taxes on the middle class and 12 million new jobs. mitt romney got a standing ovation as he entered the convention hall for the biggest speech of his life. >> i am proud to introduce to you the next president of the united states of america, mitt romney. >>nd romney wasted little time making his nomination official. >> i accept your nomination for president of the united states. >> he focused on his life, including an emotional nod to his parents. >> my mom and dad were true partners. a life lesson that shaped me by everyday example. when my mom ran for the senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. >> he laid out why he should win in november. >> i have a plan to create 12 million new jobs. >> and why he thinks president obama should not win. >> you know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president

clint eastwood i strongly disagree. paul, go ahead and respond. >> look, the best speech of the convention was given by romney. it was just given by ann, not by mitt. he wasn't terrible. he really wasn't. but he didn't do what he needed to do. it was ann's job to humanize him. and she did a wonderful job. she took this an ma tronic robot, which is most people's image of governor romney. and made him into a dad, a husband. it was a terrific speech by ann romney. but mitt didn't then have to do that. he didn't have to humanize himself further, and he's not very good at it. he need today chart a course. what is he going to do to create jobs for the middle class different from what bush did, different from what obama did? he could have been a third-way leader but it's not in him. he doesn't have any ideas that herbert hoover or george w. bush couldn't run on. >> hold on, mary. instead of speaking in general -- generalities if you will, what he wants to do, should he have gone in this acceptance speech into those kinds of sp

the official line on clint eastwood -- "judging an american icon like clint eastwood through a political lens does not work. that was a break from all the political speeches. the crowd enjoyed it. he pointed at 23 million americans are not employed. it is time for a change." let's go back to the floor. >> a familiar face for those who watched our "contenders" serious. you have written a lot about campaigns, contentions -- conventions, nomination speeches. what was the count mitt romney was trying to achieve? >> a combination of two recent speeches. the first half and led a lot of people of the george h. w. speech in 1988, when he talked about wanting a kinder and gentler america. governor romney came out with a soothing tone. try to be relaxed and informal. we talk about governor romney needing to humanize himself, and that is what he seemed to try to talk about. raising his five sons, his father and family life. the second half was more aggressive, obviously. it reminded me of the bob dole speech in 1996, which was a strong indictment of bill clinton. there was a line that really stuck

what was the reaction to clint eastwood? >> it was not positive. people found it a little bit bizarre and very long winded. he had lived for 12 minutes when he was scheduled for 5 minutes. i want to play one of the parts of the speech which is seen as one of the more impact falls >> i just think that it is important that you realized that you are the best in the world and whether your democrat or republican or libertarian or whatever, you are the best and we should not ever forget that and when somebody does not do the job, we have to let them go. >> ann romney was asked about eastwood's performance and some of the other comments he made were to an empty chair that was supposed to be president obama. ann romney graciously said he is a unique guy who did a unique thing. a lot of republicans think that clint eastwood did no favors for mitt romney. >> the democrats get their turn next week and the weather is once again a concern. president obama is slated to deliver his acceptance speech at an outdoor theater. early forecasts show rain and thunderstor

a rambling clint eastwood and his chair. tonight we've got an exclusive interview with the man himself. we'll get to him in a minute. honestly, i woke up this morning and i wasn't sure it really happened, but right before the biggest speech of governor romney's life, this happened. >> i've got mr. obama sitting here, and he's -- i just was going to ask him a couple questions. how do you handle promises that you made when you were running for election and how do you handle, how do you handle it? what do you say to people? do you just -- what do you mean shut up? i'm not going to shut up. it's my turn. i think if you just kind of stepped aside and mr. romney can kind of take over, you can still use the plane. though maybe a smaller one. speaking out for everybody out there, it doesn't hurt, we don't have to be -- i don't say that word anymore. well, maybe one last time. i'll start it, you finish it. go ahead -- >> make my day! >> thank you. >> yes, america, it was not a dream. from washington to hollywood, it's all anyone is t

so, clint eastwood. what do you think? >>guest: my old colleague from "line of fire," the first movie i worked on in hollywood. >>neil: are you surprised? >>guest: he is not big on the campaigns. if anything, in california, let is probably supported democrats more recently than --. >>neil: when he was in carmel, he was republican? >>guest: not partisan, but it is understood he was republican. >>neil: people thought he was for the president with the ad on tv, my guess is we will hear him explain that. that will be quite interesting. i am sure there will be a response. >>neil: now the question is, it is like when you come before the next guest, the next guest has a tough act to follow. >>guest: and people should see what we are doing at nights, we are really bashing. >>neil: now, you are following clint eastwood and if he is sandwiched, or placed between marco rubio and mitt romney --. >>guest: is that where he is going to be. >>neil: i don't that. >>pat: my guess is he will be before rubio. maybe not. hey, this is hollywood

as another republican official put it "it's clint eastwood. if elvis wants to sing a longer song, do you turn off his mic?" >> pelley: anthony, thanks very much. now we're going to open the mic of bob schieffer, our chief washington correspondent and anchor of "face the nation." he's already in charlotte where the democrats will be meeting next week. bob, in your opinion the hall with eastwood last night. >> oh, i tell you... (laughs) you know, scott this was gonna be mitt romney's big night, when they finally had the distractions out of the way and he could lay out his program for the american people. but this morning any television program you turned on, all the radio talk shows, all they were talking about was not mitt romney's speech but clinton eastwood's speech! and, i mean, it was the same on the ground. as i was leaving the hotel in tampa the car parkers are saying "what was that all about? who was he talking to? what was he saying that he couldn't do?" i get out to the airport nobody asked me about romney's speech, they asked me about

clint eastwood was stewart's idea. stewart is into show business and now they are disowning clint eastwood saying that he was ad libbing. we didn't give him a script. to include what clint eastwood did up here was absolutely disastrous. >> i couldn't believe my eyes. the two best lines of mitt romney's speech was what the nation needs is simple jobs and lots of jobs. that is a fact check true. that is the most pressing thing in the country and i hope president obama speaks about it a lot. the best line in the speech is, you know something is wrong when the best feeling that you have of the presidency is the day you voted for him. that gets to disappointment with the fact that the recovery is not what people want it to be. that's the core fact they are running on and the more he talked about that, the better he was. i thought the real moment was what chris matthews mentioned. in documentaries about america at this period of time, the line in which a hall full of people laugh at the notion of stopping the oceans from ris

i think you saw the ugly with the clint eastwood speech. in all seriousness, when you have an hour to basically make your case to the american people that any strategist for the republican candidate thought this was a good idea, i would suggest they start thinking about a new line of work or new career. this was an awful idea. it hurt them. it hurt their message. it's what we're talking about. it really was a huge mistake. i can tell you ann romney, she was not thrilled. that was the exact opposite face of a thrilled spouse. >> from a headline perspective, does that take people off course what the headline should be today? >> just a bit, yes. i would add, i was on the convention floor when that happened. a lot of the delegates on the floor actually thought it was pretty funny. but i was reading through twitter and people thought it was so strange. now the romney aign, while mitt romney was speaking, said it was a break from all the political speeches. but the thing is using clint eastwood was innately political because during the super bowl

clint eastwood went over big with the audience in the hall. but his fake interview with an absent president obama, imagining him in an empty chair, got a quick response from the president. who tweeted a picture and the words, this seat is taken. >> now, of course, eastwood may not be winning any awards for that performance, the reviews overnight were harsh, but romney, on the other hand got generally good reviews. many people were saying it's the best speech that he's ever given. the campaign is going to try to take that momentum now on the road. they've got an event in lakeland, florida, this morning. they're off then to north carolina and ohio. they'll be in their new campaign plane. we heard this a lot last night from romney and a theme over the next ten weeks, on the plane it says believe in america. norah and charlie. >> with us now from tampa is ann romney. good morning. >> good morning. >> what did you want america to know about your husband as he spoke last night and did it resonate in your judgment? >> you know, i was very, very touch

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i think you saw the ugly with the clint eastwood speech. in all seriousness, when you have an hour to basically make your case to the american people that any strategist for the republican candidate thought this was a good idea, i would suggest they start thinking about a new line of work or new career. this was an awful idea. it hurt them. it hurt their message. it's what we're talking about. it really was a huge mistake. i can tell you ann romney, she was not thrilled. that was the exact opposite face of a thrilled spouse. >> from a headline perspective, does that take people off course what the headline should be today? >> just a bit, yes. i would add, i was on the convention floor when that happened. a lot of the delegates on the floor actually thought it was pretty funny. but i was reading through twitter and people thought it was so strange. now the romney campaign, while mitt romney was speaking, said it was a break from all the political speeches. but the thing is using clint eastwood was innately political because during the super