When 82-year-old veteran actor/producer Clint Eastwood announced his endorsement of Mitt Romney earlier this month, tolerant liberals could think of only one good reason a Hollywood legend would choose a Republican over Planet Healer and Tinseltown money-grubber Barack Obama:
The disrespectful armchair geriatricians are back. After his memorable, crotchety, completely ad-libbed convention speech tonight, senior citizen-bashers took to Twitter to deride Eastwood’s state of mind:
https://twitter.com/TweetEverstrong/status/241397350831124480
https://twitter.com/likiwright/status/241360078840664065
https://twitter.com/SermonOTheMount/status/241356787301892096
Clint Eastwood speaking @ the #RNC in Tampa: this is what dementia looks like.
— Lord Easy (@lordeasy) August 31, 2012
Clint Eastwood has official hit the senile stage of life.
— TMOTTGoGo (@TMOTTGoGo) August 31, 2012
https://twitter.com/Sarah_Cooper14/status/241416604284493824
Senile old man forgot his meds #Clint Eastwood #RNC
— _Baduizm (@_Baduizm) August 31, 2012
https://twitter.com/DamonkWayans/status/241358371196911616
The lack of self-awareness of some of Eastwood’s media detractors is a sight to behold:
Watching Chris Matthews criticize Clint Eastwood, asking why they let a batshit crazy guy ramble on TV. Meanwhile, I suffer meta-overload
— Sean Geary Higgins (@SeanGHiggins) August 31, 2012
Speaking of faulty memories, the Eastwood haters certainly didn’t treat his Super Bowl auto industry commercial earlier this year — construed at the time as pro-Obama — as the result of an addled mind:
https://twitter.com/BarryNMooch/status/241427979731869696
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