Bill Maher recapped the 2012 election has been and claimed that by election day Romney will be insisting that he, ‘doesn’t want old white men telling him what he can’t do with his vagina.’
Here is the video:
Maher said,
American elections are glorified lying contests and an insult to our intelligence, but they’re not dull. But this one, this one has been like watching Donald Trump losing a hockey fight. I know it has to end. I just don’t want it to. So with only four more days left in this campaign, it means there’s only time for five more reincarnations of Mitt Romney. By Tuesday, he’ll be insisting he’s always been a staunchly pro-gay Unitarian who hates corporations, is proud of his Latino heritage, and doesn’t want old white men telling him what he can’t do with his vagina.
So before it all ends, let’s take a look back at the election that really began on January 21, 2010. That’s the day the Supreme Court voided all election laws, except money talks. And right wing billionaires came out of the woodwork, except for Sheldon Adelson who came out of the waxwork. Now they only had to find the right vessel to carry their water, and that process began in May of 2011 with the first of twenty Republican debates. Featuring a collection of fourth string freaks, creeps, and twistos that made an orgy at John Waters’ house look like The Avengers.
2012 may also be remembered as the election where one candidate was suspected of not being born in America, and the other was suspected of not being born on Earth. But when future historians ask, Mitt Romney? How did we get this shameless weathervane from the planet Kolab? The answer will be because the other choices were Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, the mom from Carrie, and the black guy from Ghostbusters.
But at the end of the day the tea party had spoken. They were against health care mandates, against Wall Street fatcats, and against establishment insiders, so they nominated Mitt Romney. Who tried to placate them at the Republican convention in Tampa with his vice presidential choice of Paul Ryan, an Ayn Rand enthusiast who bragged that he replaced the cheetah as the world’s fastest land animal. The convention was also notable for a speech by Clint Eastwood, who debated Medicare with a barstool. Clint was not the first choice for a celebrity speaker at the convention, but Honey Boo Boo refused to dumb it down.
A week later the Democrats had their convention, a much bigger success. At the end, liberals were filing out of the hall chanting four more years. Of course, it was for Bill Clinton, but still. And things looked even better for the Democrats in September when the infamous video came out of Mitt Romney calling 47% of Americans a bunch of mooching sponges. But if it hurt him it was soon forgotten when October 3, 2012, seventy million Americans watched President Obama boycott the first debate. And get caught off guard by Mitt’s pivot to the center.
In this and the subsequent debates, the Mitt of the primary season. The man who had promised teabaggers and bible thumpers that he could bag and thump with the best of them was replaced by a new Mitt Romney who suddenly liked regulation, and protecting women’s rights, and who was for taxing the rich, and offering foreign aid to the terrorists. Can you imagine if he had said those things during the primary debates? The crowd and the crazies on the stage would have devoured him. There would have been nothing left behind his podium but a clump of magic underwear and black hair dye.
So, that’s it. That’s the election. It is your choice, America. Because for me, it is a win-win. If Obama wins, America wins. If Romney wins, comedy wins.
The 2012 election has been a wild ride that has put the dysfunction of the Republican Party on full display for the nation to see. Mitt Romney is a product of this dysfunction. Only a rudderless party with no idea what they are doing would nominate a candidate whose has a closet full of skeletons and a record that contradicts everything they supposedly believe in. Unlike Bill Maher, I am not willing to do any recaps just yet. We still have a few days to go before voters head to the polls, and who knows what kind of oddities and chaos are waiting for us on November 6?
In the few remaining days that he has left, I suspect that Mitt Romney will take his falsehoods to a whole new level. Romney is going to make last ditch plays that could get more outrageous by the hour. President Obama will reflect the sanity of his party by doing what he has been doing since he returned to the campaign trail. The president will continue to shore up his support in places like Wisconsin, while pushing his advantage in Ohio and contesting close contests in Virginia and Florida.
This has been a crazy campaign, and as Bill Maher reminded viewers, absolutely anything can still happen until one candidate reaches 270 Electoral College votes and becomes the next President of the United States.





Anne
Nov. 3rd, 2012 at 8:52 am
Sarah, just like you, I’m not ready to do any post-mortems on the election either. I also agree with you that the sight of the ethically and empathetically challenged Republican party has been both revealing and frightening. Anyone who became the Republican nominee was bound to be a deeply flawed character because their ideology is badly flawed. Willard Romney was thought to be the least bad among a large group of sad sacks, but he has proven to be a uniquely horrible presidential candidate. The idea that this old white man would object to other old white men telling him what to do with his “vagina” is especially funny, because up to now, he’s had no problem with them telling him what to do, especially Karl Rove.
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Stacy
Nov. 3rd, 2012 at 9:30 am
I didn’t watch the Republican debates, I just don’t want to give myself a stroke from screaming at my television. But Mitt Romney was the best choice? Come on. Did any of those who eventually nominated him to be THE Republican Candidate check out his record, his background, or heck, see any of the information out there that chronicles his flip-flopping record at all? The only thing I can think of is that they looked at ONLY his Massachusetts record of raising taxes on the middle class, lowering taxes on the rich, and cutting funding for social programs his constituent truly needed to come to the conclusion he was the ONE. Gimme a break.
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Shiva (Moderator)
Nov. 3rd, 2012 at 10:35 am
Romney was the best choice during the debates simply because he was only one of two people who were partially rational. The GOP debates were nothing more than an exercise to see how extreme conservatism could be expressed. The only reason you should’ve watched the DOP debates is that during the presidential debates Romney walked back every single thing he said during those GOP debates. If it wasn’t so serious, the presidential debates could have been turned into a comedy act on the part of Mitt Romney. It’s easy for me to see how president Obama lost the first debate, I was thrown back enough myself but I doubt I could’ve even responded to the things that Romney was saying.
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Rho
Nov. 3rd, 2012 at 6:30 pm
the debates were like a 2 out of 3 match in Yugioh. Throw the first round to see your opponent’s strategy,then nail him or her in the next two rounds.
I don’t know if Obama’s girls are fans of Konami,but if they did watch the cartoon or play the cardgame, then he must have learned something from them.
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Josh Rachlis
Nov. 3rd, 2012 at 9:39 am
If only Canada didn’t share the same climate and breathe the same air as the United States, I would gladly take the “Comedy Wins” option over the “America Wins” option.
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Shiva (Moderator)
Nov. 3rd, 2012 at 10:32 am
Canada has some incredible comedy. Like Britain they are allowed to go past the 4″ x 4″ window in the mind of the major networks here.
the trailer Park boys comes to mind as do many other shows
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Brandt Hardin
Nov. 3rd, 2012 at 11:00 am
If Obama loses this election, you can blame/thank the Right for bamboozling him. How is it ethical to deny a woman her right to make her own decisions about her body, Republicans? Watch the white hands apply the Blackface to our first African-American President at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2012/10/bamboozling-obama.html
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Nancy
Nov. 3rd, 2012 at 11:22 am
Unrelated. DO YOU HAVE INFO ON VOTING OR VOTING RULES FOR NJ? Most friends are still without power & we have a 7-7 curfew. Also, now odd even gas days.
People are asking me, ny too. Ty
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Shiva (Moderator)
Nov. 3rd, 2012 at 11:27 am
Bill is too hilarious in this one. I was surprised to find 7 Mitt Romney’s on my ballot when I voted. I didnt vote for any of them
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harris stein
Nov. 3rd, 2012 at 12:55 pm
This is good. The entire American political landscape in a nutshell, packaged for prime time and sent same day delivery.
The republicans have nominated a despicable, shameless, lying sack of …. you know what, to go up against a decent honest man who has a desire to bridge philosophical divides and find common ground between despicable shameless republicans who view caring as a weakness and democrats who view caring as a strength.
Emotional strength and caring go hand in hand. People who view caring as a weakness are themselves emotionally weak and run to take refuge in a belief that a hairy old white man, who they say lives in the sky, will relieve suffering, if only the sufferer buys into the belief these emotionally weak people are selling. It doesn’t quite work that way. In 99.9 per cent of cases, it is ultimately the emotionally weak who are causing the suffering.
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John Bruneau
Nov. 3rd, 2012 at 1:22 pm
In Florida, our Governor is a businessman, from the same mold as Romney and it does not work! Gov Scott tried to change FL constitution and is in court with taxpayer money! He has lost in the lower courts, and in this election year, has spread rumor and untruths about the Judges who’s positions are up for reappointment bu the voters. With a win of having them removed, he can change the lower courts ruling against him (For us), to a complete sham of a representation of Democracy. This is an omen to America, this Gov has also cut Education by $1.6 Billion dollars, we do not need Romney in the office of President of the United States of America!
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D.Hunnel
Nov. 3rd, 2012 at 7:15 pm
The only way this could get any closer to being a Firesign Theater comedy sketch would be for Mitt Romney to realize just how much “Public Good” he could accomplish (maybe we could offer him a cut of the money he would save the country) if he were to deliver his concession speech NOW. BEFORE the election. Unfortunately, the MEDIA doesn’t GIVE refunds on attack ads already purchased.
FORTUNATELY for the GOP, they DID manage to get all those illegal patches installed in those Ohio voting machines — the ones that TOOK OUT the code that WAS going to manipulate the vote, or, wait, was that to PUT IN the code that IS going to manipulate the vote…
What have we come to in this country, when the CONSPIRACY THEORISTS turn out to be the ones who are provably tracking closest to reality??
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DobieTracker
Nov. 4th, 2012 at 5:09 am
please dont get complacent and not bother to vote !
polls are only in obama’s favor if if if if if
you actually go out and vote !
do not assume anything.
obama can only win if you actually go to the voting booth and vote>
remember, romney’s extreme right wing is very motivated and you can bet they will be at the polls and voting for romney—they are not assuming anything either ! ! ! ! !
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