Tampa, Florida

At the Republican National Convention in 2012, the crowd cheers when seeing the famous actor and director take the stage:  “We love Clint! We love Clint! We love Clint!” Appreciative, he tells members to “Save some for Mitt.”  Talking to viewers he says, I know what you’re thinking – what’s a movie tradesman doing here – they’re all left of Lenin…Truth is there are plenty of conservatives and moderates…I saw John Voight here in town. Nodding to an empty chair now pulled up next to the lectern, Clint says he has President Obama sitting here and he’s just going to ask him a couple of questions.

I remember 3 years ago (in reference to a celebrity gathering in CA)  I wasn’t a big supporter and I was watching him talk about ‘hope and change’ and  ‘yes, we can’ and I thought this was great – Oprah was crying and I thought this was great, and I was even crying – I haven’t cried that hard until I found out there were 23 million unemployed people in this nation…and this administration hasn’t done enough to do anything about that, and I think that it’s time possibly for someone else to come along and solve the problem…

So Mr. President, how do you handle this? People in your own party were disappointed when you didn’t close Gitmo? I thought why close Gitmo when we spent so much money on it? (He speaks to the empty chair) I thought it was because someone wanted to try terrorists in NYC. I’ll give you credit you got rid of that….You didn’t like Iraq but were ok with Afghanistan but you didn’t think to ask Russia how they did this for ten years….(laughs)…you did mention a target date and I thought why not bring them home tomorrow morning….

What? What do you want me to tell Romney? (he says to the chair) He can’t do that to himself…you’re absolutely crazy… (laughs)…you’re getting as bad as Biden….Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democrat party…kind of a grin with a body behind it…there’s so much to be done…I thought Romney and Ryan are two guys who came along…and I never thought it was a good idea for attorneys to be president….arguing this…seeing both sides…devil’s advocates….

I think it may be time for a businessman, how about that? A stellar businessman….quote, unquote….I think if you just kind of stepped aside….let Romney take over…you can still use the plane but maybe a smaller one….not that big gas guzzler you take to talk to students about student loans…what? No, I’m sorry I can’t do that to myself either….

I have to say something, you, we own this country….we own it and it’s not you owning it or politicians owning it – politicians are employees of ours – they’re just going to come around every few years and beg for votes…I just think it’s important you’re the best – whether you’re a Democrat, or a Republican or a libertarian and when someone doesn’t do the job you’ve got to let them go….

(Crowd: Let them go! Let them go! Let them go!) Clint: Ok, just remember that – we don’t have to be mental masochists and vote for someone we don’t want in office – or maybe not so nice guys if you look at some of the recent ads out there…okay, make my day….I’ll start it you finish it “go ahead….” Crowd: MAKE MY DAY!