Clint Eastwood and Jenna Jameson Endorse Mitt Romney with Varying Degrees of Flattery, Class

by Julie Miller, Vanity Fair

Over his past four years as president, Barack Obama has amassed a number of celebrity supporters (and friends!) including, but not limited to, Oprah, George Clooney, Sarah Jessica Parker, Will Smith, Robert De Niro, and Scarlett Johansson. But which of Hollywood's elite would endorse this year's presumptive Republican nominee in his gaffe-laden lead-up to the 2012 presidential campaign? Two stars of varying credibility came forward over the weekend to join Team Romney. The first being Clint Eastwood, who spoke at a fundraiser in Sun Valley, Idaho, for the Victory Fund, a combined effort of the Romney campaign and the Republican National Committee, on Friday night.

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Eastwood revealed that he first noticed the candidate while filming Mystic River in Massachusetts at the same time that Romney was running for governor. "I kept seeing him appear on television all the time and I said 'God this guy, he's too handsome to be governor, but he does look like he could be president.'" Eastwood added that Romney would "restore, hopefully, a decent tax system that we need badly... so that there's a fairness and people are not pitted against one another as to who's paying taxes and who isn't." Afterward, proving that Team Romney is familiar with Eastwood's filmography, or at least his IMDb quotes pages, the candidate joked that the endorsement "made my day."

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A celebrity endorsement that may not have made Mitt Romney's day: porn star Jenna Jameson chose a San Francisco strip club to reveal her own voting plans. Presented without edit, from CBS San Francisco's genius report on the endorsement:

"I'm very looking forward to a Republican being back in office," Jameson said while sipping champagne in a VIP room at Gold Club in the city's South of Market neighborhood. "When you're rich, you want a Republican in office."

And that, Clint Eastwood, is how you really endorse Mitt Romney.

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Comments

[HaeJee]

02:55 PM on 08/10/2012

Love Clint Eastwood's movies, but very much disagree with his presidential choice.

[LeeJr]

10:55 AM on 08/10/2012

What evidence does Clint Eastwood have that Romney would "restore, hopefully, a decent tax system that we need badly... so that there's a fairness and people are not pitted against one another as to who's paying taxes and who isn't." ? Maybe a good starting point would be for Eastwood to convince Romney to release 20 years of tax returns.

Lee Shahinian
Los Altos, CA

[Joe Kiddy]

02:03 PM on 08/10/2012

As I wrote earlier, my theory is that Romney privately told Eastwood that once in office, he would support the Simpson-Bowles plan, which would eliminate the capital gains loophole and most of the other loopholes manipulated by the wealthy and their tax attorneys. Eastwood has been enthusiastic about the proposal, which is arguably more progressive than what Obama is currently advocating and much more progressive than the "grand bargain" that Obama almost struck last August.

However, I would not trust Romney to stand up to his base and the House Republicans, who have rejected Simpson-Bowles.

[binxterdoodles]

02:33 PM on 08/24/2012

The evidence is that Obama won't as he's proven in the last 3.5 years. So the only hope is in Romney. We already know Obama refuses to do so.

[parlimentMike]

01:10 PM on 08/09/2012

Vote Romney because Clint Eastwood had a man crush on him.

[James T McGuiness]

01:07 PM on 08/09/2012

Eastwood just lost his truck with me. How could a man capable of such intelligent artistry late in life throw in his lot behind a lying fraud with no conscience, vision or talent. Romney is given too much credit for Romneycare--it was someone else's idea and Romney has none of his own. As President I could see him asking his wife and various other persons what he should do if and when an international crisis emerged. President Obama knows instinctively how to lead and does not giive a sense of being out of his depth. Clint Eastwood should be ashamed.

[Joe Kiddy]

03:47 PM on 08/09/2012

Eastwood was very enthusiastic about the Bowles-Simpson plan for tax reform and deficit reduction, which is actually quite progressive, and based on his explanation for supporting Romney, I suspect that the Republican nominee privately told the filmmaker that he would advocate Bowles-Simpson once in office, which Obama has failed to do. I, however, would not trust Romney to stand up to the right-wing and the House Republicans, who have rejected Bowles-Simpson.