Dirty Harry Meets Clean Mitt

Dirty Harry Meets Clean Mitt

TAMPA, Fla. -- Clint Eastwood put on an odd skit Thursday night at the Republican National Convention. It was awkward to watch and hard to hear, but I have to hand it to Eastwood. He achieved the impossible; he made the gaffe-prone Mitt Romney come across as supremely tactful.

Four years ago, when Barack Obama was elected president, Eastwood told the Republican National Convention on Thursday night, Eastwood thought: "This is great. Everybody was crying. Oprah was crying. I was even crying."

But with 23 million Americans unemployed and the Obama White House not sufficiently interested in solving the nation's...