Clint Eastwood makes Romney's day with endorsement

While Mitt Romney was raising big bucks in Idaho over the weekend, Clint Eastwood made his day by endorsing him.

The actor-director stood alongside the Republican presidential candidate in Sun Valley, saying he first got wind of Romney during filming of his Academy Award-winning film, Mystic River, in Massachusetts. At the time, Romney was running to be the Bay State's governor.

"I said, God, this guy, he's too handsome to be governor, but he does look like he could be president,'' Eastwood said Friday night, according to the Associated Press. "'As the years have gone by I began to think even more so about that."

Eastwood cut a much-buzzed about Chrysler ad for the Super Bowl earlier this year, proclaiming it to be "halftime in America."

While some viewers thought the commercial had a political message because of President Obama's role in bailing out the auto industry, Eastwood pushed back and said he was not "politically affiliated" with the president.

The AP says about 325 people paid $25,000 to attend the Romney fundraiser in Idaho. The proceeds are not part of the $101.3 million fundraising haul for July that Romney and the Republican National Committee announced earlier today.

Eastwood is one of the highest-profile celebrities to support Romney.