Actor, director and the former Mayor of Carmel, California Clint Eastwood joined the Republican party 57 years ago.

He says:

“Yes, I started out as a Republican in 1951; I was a young 21-year-old in the Army, and I wanted to vote for Dwight Eisenhower. He, like all politicians, was always promising something, and he promised he would go to Korea and end the Korean War. But the Republican Party, as has the Democratic Party, has changed dramatically in the 50-some years that I’ve been involved with it, so I’ve sort of drifted to a more Libertarian point of view. The Libertarian Party never got going as a party — just leave everybody alone. It was very appealing to a guy like myself who came up in the ’30s and watched my parents struggle through the Depression and [who] nowadays is wanting for nothing.”

But with regard to the current election, Eastwood is skeptical of both Democratic candidate Barack Obama and Republican nominee John McCain saying….

“Now, of course, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way to get elected: You have to promise to give people all kinds of stuff. You have to give away new cars like on Oprah or something. We’ll give you anything to go down and vote. It’s kind of perverted politics as far as I’m concerned. Whether Mr. McCain or Mr. Obama… Whatever happens there, who knows? There are a lot of promises going on there, too. It’s a very confusing era.”

That being said, the McCain campaign is using the above picture of Cindy McCain and Clint Eastwood in a pink McCain hat from June 3, 2008 on their website.

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