The Chair

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The Chair

In theory, Eastwood wouldn’t make a bad prime-time convention speaker, but there’s no evidence that the Romney team did anything other than take an 82-year-old man with no experience delivering nationally televised political speeches at his word that he’d be able to handle a few minutes of prime time by himself, no help needed with any preparations. Nor is there any sign that anyone in the campaign asked him why he needed a chair.

Given how precious the 10 p.m.-11 p.m. hour is for modern convention planners, the decision to let Eastwood wing it amounts to strategic malpractice, and Romney’s campaign is paying for it today, with news coverage that’s focused as much on Eastwood and his chair as it is on the GOP nominee’s big speech.

 

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Actually I think it was an embarassing incoherent rambling but Eastwood is a rare republican celeb and a former mayor and it was what it was. Marco Rubio was a brilliant choice for followup speaker.

 

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