New Florida poll shows vindication of Eastwood Strategy

Hot Air ^ | 09.01.12

[Perdogg]

Feel lucky, punk? When Republicans chose Tampa as the site for the 2012 national convention, they didn’t do it for the weather, obviously. They saw Florida as a key to their hopes of winning the presidential election and hoped to make an impact on voters with their week-long argument for Republican control of the White House. According to a snap poll from Survey USA of 754 registered voters who watched the final night of the convention, they may have switched 10% of the vote with the effort:

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[GOPJ]

Ridicule is our most potent weapon.

That was the beauty of what Eastwood did - he laughed at liberals...

[Irish Eyes]

It was an act, a great parody of this Jimmy Stewart character from the movie “Harvey”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKECvqSVWPA

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Yes, it was brilliant, Jimmy Stewart another great conservative of the time when Hollywood WAS Conservative. They are missed.

[Cruising For Freedom]

Concur!

I was AMAZED at the magnitude of the meltdown over Eastwood’s speech. Sure, it was unconventional, but at the time I thought it was meh, in comparison to the other amazing speeches...

Eastwood obviously found Obama’s meltdown button. Let’s press it over and over again. Let’s make InvisibleObama a meme.

This would be going too far, but it’d be fun to watch Obama reactions if Romney in the debates “accidentally” addressed an empty chair as Obama or something.

[GOPJ]

bump

[JediJones]

I’d like to see a presidential chair with a “help wanted” sign stuck on it on every lawn in America.

[Drew68]

I loved Mr. Eastwood's speech but I gotta admit, stumbling across this really cracked me up: