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Who Does Clint Eastwood Like in the 2012 Race?: ‘I Love Cain’s Story’

Who Does Clint Eastwood Like in the 2012 Race?: I Love Cains Story

Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood has played a cowboy in the past, but as a director, and public figure seems to toe the line of both the left and right. In a recent profile for the Los Angeles Times promoting the upcoming release of his new film, “J. Edgar,” Eastwood discussed some of his opinions on politics:

“When I quizzed Eastwood, he couldn’t remember ever voting for a Democrat for president — including in the last election, where he supported John McCain. But when he condemned anti-gay marriage fanatics in a recent, profanity-studded GQ interview (“Don’t give me that sanctity crap! Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want”), my liberal friends shared the excerpts on Facebook with pretty much the same delight as 12-year-old girls passing around Justin Bieber videos.

When it comes to his films’ depiction of sensitive issues, Eastwood has carried off an astounding balancing act. Look at his back-to-back movies about World War II: The first, “Flags of Our Fathers,” was openly admiring of American exceptionalism; the next, “Letters From Iwo Jima,” venerated the courage and sacrifices made by Japanese soldiers in one of the war’s bloodiest battles.”

Eastwood’s upcoming biopic on the inaugural and controversial FBI director, is said to remain ambiguous on Hoover’s personal life and possible closeted homosexuality. Eastwood tells the Times that he finds himself fiscally conservative, socially liberal, and in support of environmental protections. Eastwood says he was opposed to the 2008 stimulus:

“But I’m a big hawk on cutting the deficit. I was against the stimulus thing too. We shouldn’t be bailing out the banks and car companies. If a CEO can’t figure out how to make his company profitable, then he shouldn’t be the CEO.”

Eastwood claims to have voted GOP in every presidential election aside from 1992, when he voted for Ross Perot. Of the current GOP field, Eastwood says he likes Herman Cain best. “I love Cain’s story,” Eastwood told the Times. “He’s a guy who came from nowhere and did well, obviously against heavy odds. He’s a doer and a straight-talker, which I don’t see enough of from either party.”

Eastwood was Mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, for one term from 1986 to 1988. Eastwood contributed $2300 to John McCain in 2008.

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  • MrMagoo
    Posted on November 8, 2011 at 8:09pm

    “socially liberal, and in support of environmental protections.”-Eastwood

    Both of these ideals can go too far,and do,IMO.But hey,its Clint Eastwood!A mans man,you can take that to the bank! Not only has this man provided many untold hours of movie entertainment for millions of us,he’s the great person in real life that he has portrayed in many of them.If there is such a thing as self portraits on film,as an actor and a director,Clint Eastwood surely qualifies.

    His comments on Herman Cain,”“I love Cain’s story,” Eastwood told the Times. “He’s a guy who came from nowhere and did well, obviously against heavy odds. He’s a doer and a straight-talker,..” Kinda reminds me of Eastwood and his early westerns with Sergio Leone directing and of course the later ones he produced and directed himself.The Man with No Name who comes from nowhere to save the day and make things right.Even with all the violence and bloodshed,you always knew he had a good heart and did the right thing in the end.

    “Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.”
    Clint Eastwood
    Great words of advice.
    Yes We Cain 2012!

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    • loriann12
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 8:25pm

      Sounds a bit like my parents. They’re Democrat out of habit. I would call them JFK Democrats (fiscally conservative, but not so much socially). They agree with much of everything I do, but are ok with abortion.

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    • MrMagoo
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 9:09pm

      @LORIANN12,
      Well,JFK was loved by many Americans back then(and now) and would be considered a conservative/republican by today’s standards.He was a great American President .
      So far as abortion is concerned,its pure killing,in my opinion.All the laws in the World won’t stop it though.I‘m torn between a woman going to a back alley doctor or a registered ’clean’ clinic.Abortions are going to happen,rich,poor,or otherwise.
      Take away the religious and moral aspects though,it’d be a terrible World.No one would care about life anymore.Pure chaos and evil.Maybe that’s what hell is?

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    • Founding Father2
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 9:14pm

      Interesting how theBlaze missed the second biggest portion of the article they referenced. Something that was on americanparchment.com was this portion:

      Romney was running for governor there. “I saw a lot of him and you have to admit — he looks like a president”

      Seems like the conservative and liberal media are ganging up against Romney.

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    • infidelible
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 10:26pm

      @MrMagoo

      “Take away the religious and moral aspects though,it’d be a terrible World.No one would care about life anymore.Pure chaos and evil.Maybe that’s what hell is?”

      Why would it be a terrible world? Why would self interest – the kind the motivates cooperation and kindness – disappear in the absense of mystism? I don’t believe in an afterlife and it compells me to make the most of what I have,

      Believe whatever you want, but look around and you‘ll find it’s not athiests who commit acts of suicide bombing or murder of idealogically opposing people [though it would be interesting to know the religious demographics of those who have abortion - I really don't know what that would yield ]. And consider that Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc were not, strictly speaking, atheists. They all embraced some form of mysticism. And consider that it was on the battlefield that emporer constantine converted to Christianity. There‘s no guarantee that without religion you’d get a utopia, but we definitely don’t have one now with it.

      Altruism is the source of evil and chaos, not rational thinking.

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 2:07am

      Clint Eastwood said:

      “But I’m a big hawk on cutting the deficit. I was against the stimulus thing too. We shouldn’t be bailing out the banks and car companies. If a CEO can’t figure out how to make his company profitable, then he shouldn’t be the CEO.”

      And he also said:

      “I love Cain’s story,” Eastwood told the Times. “He’s a guy who came from nowhere and did well, obviously against heavy odds. He’s a doer and a straight-talker, which I don’t see enough of from either party.”

      Cain SUPPORTED TARP, and he STILL doesn’t know that artificial credit expansion causes false economic booms followed by busts, or that the central planning of the money supply by the Fed is the current source of the credit expansions that are destroying our economy and allowing government to get bigger at the taxpayers’ expense.

      See here.

      The Trouble With Herman Cain
      http://www.tomwoods.com/cain/

      And here.

      Herman Cain vs. Ron Paul On Predicting The Economic Collapse
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn0EApd5wgw

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 2:10am

      In August of 2005, Hermain Cain said there was no housing bubble.

      See here.

      Commentary: The Media Say the Economy Is Horrible, So It Must Be True
      http://www.mrc.org/bmi/commentary/2005/Commentary_The_Media_Say_the_Economy_Is_Horrible_So_It_Must_Be_True.html

      “The media have been foretelling a massive bust in housing prices for months now. On May 19, ABCs Elizabeth Vargas said: The run up in housing prices is now beginning to look something like the boom in Internet stocks, and we know what happened there. That kind of ignorance makes homeowners fear that their most expensive possession could turn worthless overnight.

      “That wont happen. No matter how much the media compared Bush to Herbert Hoover last year, this is not the Great Depression. Now theyve given up on that failed comparison, but their coverage of the president has gotten worse.”

      But in 2003, Ron Paul was warning us that the housing bubble would crash at some point.

      See here.

      Ron Paul Calls the Housing Collapse in 2003
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S3lXDOQ7ec

      Further, he was actually warning us about the housing crash way back in 2001.

      See here.

      Ron Paul: “This real-estate bubble will burst, as all bubbles do” (part 3)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KONpt9a6HrI

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 2:38am

      In August of 2005, Hermain Cain said there was no housing bubble.

      See here.

      Commentary: The Media Say the Economy Is Horrible, So It Must Be True
      http ://www.mrc.org/bmi/commentary/2005/Commentary_The_Media_Say_the_Economy_Is_Horrible_So_It_Must_Be_True.html

      “The media have been foretelling a massive bust in housing prices for months now. On May 19, ABCs Elizabeth Vargas said: The run up in housing prices is now beginning to look something like the boom in Internet stocks, and we know what happened there. That kind of ignorance makes homeowners fear that their most expensive possession could turn worthless overnight.

      “That wont happen. No matter how much the media compared Bush to Herbert Hoover last year, this is not the Great Depression. Now theyve given up on that failed comparison, but their coverage of the president has gotten worse.”

      But in 2003, Ron Paul was warning us that the housing bubble would crash at some point.

      See here.

      Ron Paul Calls the Housing Collapse in 2003
      http ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S3lXDOQ7ec

      Further, he was actually warning us about the housing crash way back in 2001.

      See here.

      Ron Paul: “This real-estate bubble will burst, as all bubbles do” (part 3)
      http ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KONpt9a6HrI

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    • escape_from_socialism
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 7:14am

      If you are against TARP, Mr. Eastwood? How can you support Mr. Cain?

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 10:10am

      I don’t CARE who Clint Eastwood likes.

      I vote on V-Man Mace’s behalf, not Clint Eastwood.

      Ron Paul 2012.

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    • matt1776
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 5:12pm

      @Infedileble, Socialism/communism is most definitely an atheist phenomenon. They all want to kill Judeo/Christian values as swiftly as possible. The human body is wired to be spiritual, in that sense they can’t completely eradicate the soul, so they seek to replace it with some pagan beliefs that are nothing more then man believing their interests are the only thing that matters. In your world there is nothing stopping the powerful from inflicting their interests on you, besides whatever force you might bring to bear. Morality determines what society ought to do, and there is nothing rational or scientific about the word ought. It is simply a sense people have of the morality that underpins this world, placed their by its creator, and enunciated by our founders. It is a prerequisite for a civil society. There is nothing in your world to say whose self interest matters more, whose are justified and whose are evil. Without this, I hope you can see what the end result of an atheist world would be. Complete and utter chaos, survival of the fittest in the true sense of the word. Even if you use the principle, don‘t do anything that interferes with another man’s self interest, the conflicts will be inevitable, and the resolutions bloody, and at the end of the day, no one would be able to determine who was in the right, or wrong.

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  • red_white_blue2
    Posted on November 8, 2011 at 8:05pm

    And Clint Eastwoods opinion is news worthy..why???

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  • skippy6
    Posted on November 8, 2011 at 8:04pm

    Clint always seemed to have common sense… that’s uncommon in hollywierd!!!!

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    • piper60
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 10:24pm

      amen

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    • Vechorik
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 9:10am

      Clint didn’t say he would vote for Mr. Cain. I think this article is misleading. Mr. Eastwood has always voted for Dr. Paul “financially conservative, socially liberal”
      You surely can’t say Mr. Cain is “socially liberal”

      See Clint Eastwood likes Ron Paul’s message:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUFbvUWbA_0

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  • Libertybell2012
    Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:45pm

    I will always like Clint Eastwood. To live in the Hollywood world and yet keep some kind of perspective of who you are must truly be a balancing act. The man loves the US, and I believe…in the American dream. I have never seen him as a far left loon. I think he’s in the middle. Until you walk a mile in a mans shoe…

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  • LadyLibertea
    Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:39pm

    Gawd he is sooo hot for an older man. Make my day Clint.

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    • Baikonur
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:46pm

      @LadyLibertea
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:39pm
      ‘Gawd he is sooo hot for an older man. Make my day Clint.’
      **************
      Lol, is The Blaze now a dating site?

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  • Bakko Bomma
    Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:32pm

    What You Don‘t Know About 999

    http://youtu.be/F6FCxCtB_2o

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  • Baikonur
    Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:27pm

    Clint is part of the Old GOP, the one that had a human face.

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    • timeout
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:31pm

      human face. i love it.

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    • marhee9
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:34pm

      Clint Eastwood is a real American hero. He served our country, and has always kept himself above the fray, which isn’t so easy to do in Hollywood. This is a great video honoring the brave men and women who have sacrificed so much. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di2e3kJUY4E

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:36pm

      The dems are so caring they’ll ensure generations are on welfare for life because they care so much.

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    • Baikonur
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:36pm

      @timeout
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:31pm
      ‘human face. i love it.’
      ******************
      It is a paraphrase of Dubcek‘s ’Socialism with a Human face’ quote from the Prague Spring.

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    • Baikonur
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:39pm

      @progressiveslayer
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:36pm
      ‘The dems are so caring they’ll ensure generations are on welfare for life because they care so much.’
      **************
      Invest in healthcare and quality education, then you will have taught people how to fish.

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    • HumbleMan
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:57pm

      Socialism has never had a human face. Never has and never will.

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    • Baikonur
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 8:43pm

      @HumbleMan
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:57pm
      ‘Socialism has never had a human face. Never has and never will.’
      *************
      Tell that to parents in Finland, who get a 3 year paid leave of absence on birth of a child. Tell it to Canadians and Western Europeans who do not have to worry when a tooth hurts or a loved one gets pregnant, or terminal cancer happens to a parent. Tell it to everyone who has ever enjoyed visiting a Public Library, or walked and swam on a Public Beach, etc. etc. etc. Tell it to the majority of the Blazers, who are enjoying government benefits in the form of disability, medicaid, medicare, unemployment benefits, social security payments.

      You are silly if you do not think that human beings naturally need to band together to build a better and safer life for all.

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  • nohussein
    Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:25pm

    Cain is just another black racist, Gingrich it the brain.

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  • Ooblick
    Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:25pm

    Anybody who can’t tell that Cain is a scam, probably a neocon plant is simpleminded. He is a Zionist at worst. A typical sophomoric subhuman. He has an iq of maybe 70. Clint is typical of how often good people don’t get what they deserve and pretty boys like Clint are fawned over. What story? Godfather? What didnhe do for them? I am a white, my family has been here since the 1700s and my son is the first college grad in our family. These blacks never had it so good. They could have gone back to Africa after the civl war. God why didn’t they? We would have 75% less crime, no Cain, and no affirmative action. What a mewling mess this country has become. A bunch of self hating whites,,cry baby minorities and Jews who would have us give our last cent to those idiots in Israel who want nothg but Armageddon, with white Anglo Saxons doing the fighting and dying. But Clint likes his story! What a clueless eunuch.

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    • Grasshopper42
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:37pm

      Gee, I wish I could be as perfect as you . . .

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:45pm

      Thank you for showing me the light. You have changed my life.

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    • booger71
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:48pm

      Maybe your son will escape the hate of your family that has been passed down from generation to generation since the 1700′s

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    • BIBLESnGUNS
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 7:36am

      @ OOBLICK
      You sir are what I would consider an N-word. I happen to know more white N-words than black N-words. Judge a man by his works, not the color of his skin. The dumbocrats have done more to keep the black people in this country down, and on the welfare dole (especially the black ones,ie Jackson)than anyone else. Lyndon Johnson bragged about “they will be voting democrat for decades”. ALL Americans should have a chance at the American Dream, not just the white ones.
      Affirmative Action is a lie. How many BLACK illegal aliens do you think there are?

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  • Patrick Henry II
    Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:23pm

    Finally someone with the balls to endorse. I amdissapointed at some of the “conservative leadership to not endorse. Why not? They can re-endorse if theri guy loses.

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    • timeout
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:30pm

      i don’t want anyone to endorse a candidate. it takes our individual responsibility away. if you need another’s endorsement then you should not be voting!

      clint is a jewel, but if he wants the conservative to start to clean up of debt, etc, then he should consider another. herman is good….but full of baggage…and just think, he is not a career politician.

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  • tradexpertbuysell
    Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:23pm

    So real men in Hollywood do exist. You rock too John Voight and Pat Boone!

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:22pm

    An iconic actor and film maker he was once mayor of Carmel California,must be lonesome for Clint in Hollyweird.

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    • Baikonur
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:49pm

      @progressiveslayer
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:22pm
      ‘…must be lonesome for Clint in Hollyweird.’

      ********************
      LOL, honestly, you think Clint is ever lonesome by choice?

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  • TEARS FOR AMERICA
    Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:21pm

    I knew I loved this guy! Now I know why!

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  • searching for the Truth
    Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:21pm

    Gingrirch or Bachmann .

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:07pm

    Right on, Clint!

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  • football lady
    Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:57pm

    Clint Eastwood as VP? Works for me!!!

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  • bikerr
    Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:56pm

    Right turn Clyde!

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  • YoungBloodNews
    Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:56pm

    Good to see the Blaze shilling for Cain so hard.

    Using an old pic of Clint so he looks ‘good’, but in their Ron Paul article they chose the worst frame possible. Smells like hypocrisy

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  • jakartaman
    Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:53pm

    I think Clint is a no nonsense guy – who speaks little but should be listen too.

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    • chazman
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:06pm

      … Clint’s buttcrack use to mold perfectly to that fence he sat on. Years and years of dealing with Hollyweird will do that to a fella. But over time Hollyweird came to fear him … he has a lot of power over those that have none, but they think they do. Now he parks his azz in a big, comfy Lazy-Boy recliner. His opinion matters. Clint can sit at my fire anytime …

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  • MachIV
    Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:49pm

    Clint’s presidential seal would be a silhouette of a model 29 Smith & Wesson .44mag.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:50pm

      In the movies he actually had a Model 57 in 41mag ….. because the 44 was unavailable.

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  • palerider54
    Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:36pm

    They say that GW Bush almost asked Clint to be his running mate. Sounds like maybe Herman should consider him. Cain, Eastwood 2012.

    Just think if he told Iran, Go ahead punk, make my day. I doubt they would continue wanting a nuke.

    Clint would give them one, but not the way they would want it.

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  • SERUM
    Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:35pm

    Even the Man himself wouldn’t vote democratic!

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    • crolic9
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:48pm

      Boy this makes me feel great.
      I have a great deal of respect for this man…
      He is a true Patriot… Cain and Estwood sounds good…
      Watch out bad guys…. LOL
      Would this be a dream????
      Or a movie???
      I wonder if he would carry his 44 Mag. or maybe his 45 colt all the time… only kidding
      But Iran watch out… Israel will defiantly have us at her side then..

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:31pm

    .
    Rowdy just made my day………

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  • SonOfaCommunist
    Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:30pm

    Clint for POTUS! Go ahead make our day Clint!

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    • techengineer11
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:35pm

      Is the Blaze really this desperate to nominate a former Fed Gov as the Republican nominee?? Seriously can you at least attempt to be fair and balanced in your coverage?? Novel idea I suppose.

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  • SonOfaCommunist
    Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:29pm

    Clint for POTUS!!!! Go ahead make our day Clint!!!!

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    • db321
      Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:40pm

      I will be the 1st one to stand in line for Clint’s next Movie. He did make my day – I needed it.

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