Dirtied Harry...

I've always enjoyed Clint Eastwood's movies and the characters he's portrayed who tend to be rugged individualists standing alone who have inspired me at times during my life when confronted by adversity.  I guess it's time, however, to divorce Eastwood the actor from the characters he's portrayed, ironically none of which would be likely to ascribe to the notion of putting a multi-millionaire vulture capitalist into the presidency.

Appearing before a gigantic portrait of one of his legendary western characters which dwarfed him, Eastwood's bizarre and at times vulgar performance before the Republican National Convention featured him debating and denigrating President Obama as represented by an empty chair.  Eastwood, who describes himself as a quiet conservative, is apparently a mixed bag politically, tending to be fiscally conservative but relatively progressive on a number of social issues.  Perhaps Clint needs to stick to the acting and directing  that he does so well, and emphasize the "quiet" aspects of his conservatism...