Mitt Romney Personally Invited Clint Eastwood to Speak at RNC

Extended the invitation after Eastwood endorsed him at an Idaho fundraiser earlier this month. Mixed reaction from staff

For all the finger-pointing about Clint Eastwood's rambling conversation with an empty chair on Thursday night, the most bizarre, head-scratching 12 minutes in recent political convention history were set in motion by Mitt Romney himself and made possible by his aides, who had shrouded the actor's appearance in secrecy.