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7:11 PM PT: There's a method to Eastwood's madness, and the GOP audience sure is loving this, but I can't imagine this plays well with people who aren't already for Romney. It almost has a Palinesque feel to it.
7:12 PM PT:
Buzzfeed will have 30 GIFs with things in Clint Eastwood's chair tomorrow
— @AntDeRosa via TweetDeck
7:13 PM PT:
Clint Eastwood; I hate lawyers and politicians. And now: here's Mitt Romney!!!!
— @chrislhayes via web
7:13 PM PT:
Clint Eastwood deserves about 50 million Oscars for this portrayal of the average Republican voter.
— @HunterDK via TweetDeck
7:14 PM PT:
7:15 PM PT: Andrea Mitchell: "Exceedingly strange." Brian Williams: "Um, uh."
7:16 PM PT: And now Marco Rubio has taken the stage after that weirdness.
7:16 PM PT:
7:17 PM PT: Eastwood was a brilliant move by the Obama campaign.
7:19 PM PT: LOL:
Eastwood performance will break through by the sheer force of its utter bizareness
— @RichLowry via Mobile Web
Perhaps, but if it breaks through, it won't be good news for the GOP. Eastwood's routine wasn't that bad ... if you're a rabid Republican partisan. But if you're not, it came across as petty and weird.
7:20 PM PT: BTW, I don't think anyone is even listening to Marco Rubio now. Instead, just contemplating WTF Romneyland was thinking when they put Eastwood up there to do that.
7:20 PM PT:
7:21 PM PT: Clint Eastwood just delivered a hammer blow to Marco Rubio's dream of delivering a memorable speech.
7:23 PM PT:
There is a reason conventions are scripted. Clint's empty chair act weirdest convention moment I have ever seen.
— @HowardKurtz via Twitterrific
7:24 PM PT:
It doesn't matter what Rubio or Romney says now. All anyone will talk about tomorrow is Eastwood. Holy balls. #GOP2012
— @beardedstoner via web
7:25 PM PT:
That screaming you hear backstage is poor Clint, when they told him Mitt wants U.S. to stay in Afghanistan INDEFINITELY.
— @davidaxelrod via Twitter for iPhone
7:25 PM PT:
Mitt Romney's big night, and he got upstaged by an empty chair.
— @KailiJoy via web
7:26 PM PT:
Unfortunately, Clint Eastwood really did think Obama was sitting next to him.
— @politicoroger via web
7:27 PM PT:
7:28 PM PT:
Are you kidding? Brilliant decision!
7:29 PM PT: The audience is on its feet for something said by the guy who spoke after the guy who spoke to the chair.
7:29 PM PT: Okay, I'll ask it: Is the Eastwood speech a preview of the kind of thing we should expect from a Romney adminstration?
7:31 PM PT: So, Marco Rubio doesn't seem to give a damn that he's pushing Romney's speech past 10:30 PM ET.
7:33 PM PT (Kaili Joy Gray): New thread here.