Empty Chair Day Verifies the Success of Eastwood’s Speech

Last week at the Republican National Convention, Clint Eastwood put on a performance that continues to dog the left, Save Jerseyans.

Eastwood, 82, gave an ad-lib speech beside a chair representing President Obama.  It was a shtick right out of the golden days of comedy.  The speech has gotten under the skin of Democrats and has been championed by the right especially on social media.

Immediately following the blockbuster star’s address, the left took to the airwaves and started to insult the actor not based on what he said but based on his age. They claimed the “old man” had lost his touch. They said the speech missed its mark and was a total flop.  Progressives went to Twitter and began insulting Dirty Harry as an old man yelling at an empty chair with the tagline “#eastwooding.”

Anytime a speech elicits that sort of overreaction from those across the aisle you know they’re in full emergency mode…

Their attempts to immediately disregard and denigrate the speech given by Eastwood also betray their concern over what his speech might become. And guess what? That fear has come to fruition and continues to pick up steam.

Clint Eastwood is one of the sharpest men in Hollywood.  He knew exactly what he was doing with his RNC address. He delivered some of the most poignant one-liners of the entire convention.  His delivery was a tad affected by nerves but what 82-year-old man delivering an unscripted speech in front of millions of viewers wouldn’t be affected by nerves?

They attacked his delivery because they couldn’t attack what he said, Save Jerseyans!

Today is the opening day of the Democratic National Convention, but it has been unofficially dubbed “Empty Chair Day” by conservatives all over the country who are parodying Eastwood’s classic speech with empty chairs representing President Obama and the “Grin attached to a body,” Vice President Joe Biden.  The empty chair can represent any number of things in President Obama’s Administration.

Like his empty chair at his “jobs council” meetings.  His empty chair in the Oval Office as he chases his drive down the fifth fairway or attends a record number of fundraisers. The empty chairs that seem to litter his meetings as he attempts to make the American people fall in love with him again after leaving a long trail of broken promises and empty rhetoric.

The right-wing mediasphere has embraced the idea of the President as an empty chair so much so that the Democrats have concocted their own skit.  All week long, President Obama will be portrayed by an empty suit.

And you’re telling me that Clint’s address wasn’t effective? If not, then why is everyone still talking about it on our side and responding to it from the left?