By KEVIN ROBILLARD | 9/4/12 1:28 PM EDT
Clint Eastwood is the “perfect icon” for the GOP, Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin said Tuesday, describing the legendary actor as “an old angry white man spewing incoherent nonsense.” (PHOTOS: Clint Eastwood gets political)
The Des Moines Register reported the 72-year-old Harkin made his comments on the Iowa delegation’s breakfast this morning in Charlotte, N.C.
“We’ve got our work cut out for us this week, folks, following the Republican convention,” Harkin told the delegates. “I mean, how are we ever going to match Clint Eastwood? I got to thinking he is the perfect icon for today’s Republican tea party: an old angry white man spewing incoherent nonsense.”
Eastwood delivered a puzzling and polarizing unscripted address at the Republican National Convention last week in Tampa, endorsing GOP nominee Mitt Romney while espousing positions contrary to Romney’s stance, and yelling at an empty chair that an imaginary President Barack Obama was sitting in.
Harkin also poked fun at Romney’s supposedly robotic nature.
“In fact, every time I see Mitt Romney, I think about that little rover Curiosity on Mars,” Harkin said. “He’s more suited as Robot Romney to be driving on Mars than he is being a candidate for president of the United States
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