Just gained a new respect for Clint Eastwood

He was interviewed on CBS' Sunday Morning and when asked about an upcoming film project about Iwo Jima and whether it would be anti war he said that it would not be a war is good movie!!! I also believe he used the word propaganda.

Wow!!!

You go Clint!

Yeah I know, like that is almost an oxymoron.

But seriously - 30-40 yeears ago Republicans were fiscally conservative and not all "Hell & Brimstone" about the social issues. Unfortunately the Republican party has allowed the NRA, Fundie Nut jobs and their associated groups and of course big business take them over.

Every once in awhile you find a good republican like Clint. Believe me if he was a nut job he wouldn't have put both Tim Robbins & Sean Penn in one movie and help earn each of them an Oscar from it

that we miss those old Neanderthal Cons. Dam they had convictions other that money and power grabbing. I have respect for them that has turned to utter universal fear and loathing of the freaks that call themselves Republicans.

He is independent, if pressed. In fact, last year in an interview I read in the newspaper, he said "I never considered myself a conservative. Of course, I am no ultra-leftist either." I think that has always summed up his views. He is his own person. When he was mayor of Carmel, CA in the 80's, that was a non-partisan position.

I do not think this is an overnight change either. When he did "Heartbreak Ridge" in the mid 80's, he was very disappointed that more people didn't realize he was PARODYING the macho wartime officer stereotype. People have been so conditioned to his playing macho roles straight, that they never made the adjustment. His character in "Kelly's Heroes" was not a conventional soldier either, especially for a Vietnam era film. He was no John Wayne, who was a Republican propagandist as Eastwood is suggesting, since Wayne did star in the most famous Iwo Jima film to date.

Anyway, I always feel compelled to defend Eastwood on DU, because he has never been a Republican (although he may have supported past Republicans in office, it was as an independent), and you are certainly right to suspect he is no neo-con.

I still like the quote above... "I have never considered myself a conservative."

I think there is more to Eastwood than meets the eye. Actors love working with him, because he allows them a much more natural and unforced pace of work. He brings out their best with his relaxed and unpretentious style.