Before choosing Sarah Palin as a running mate, John McCain was turned down by Clint Eastwood.
The funny thing is that McCain didn’t actually ask Eastwood… and there are no indications that he intended to. Eastwood said no just in case. The actor served in the late 80s as the mayor of Carmel, California and was on the board of the California State Park and Recreation Commission for seven years.
As a high-profile registered Republican, it apparently seemed natural to Eastwood that he’d be asked to take the VP position. When McCain decided to say hello at a social function, the actor took the opportunity to turn him down:
“He came up to say hello. I said, ‘Look, don’t even ask it. I will not be your vice president. I have to be on the top of the ticket.’ Most of the time — Al Gore, going back — you saw the vice president very little. That would be the least appealing job, I think.”
What would you think of a McCain-Eastwood ticket? Or, for that matter, a President Eastwood?
