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Bill Maher, ‘If the Mittmobile does roll into Washington it will be towing behind it the whole anti-intellectual anti-science freak show.’
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Bill Maher reminded America that if Mitt Romney is elected, it will be a return to the anti-intellectual and anti-science days of George W. Bush.
Here is the video:
Maher said,
America, before you get in bed with Mitt Romney, remember he may seem like a nice fella from what we know about his core beliefs. Nothing. His tax plan. Nothing. His faith. Off limits, and his donors, anonymous. Now when I talk about getting into bed with Mitt Romney, I don’t mean that literally. Please, Mitt Romney doesn’t even know what a blow job is. He thinks it’s something the Pep Boys do to clean out your carburetor. No, what I’m trying to do is make an analogy to that old public service announcement about how when you go to bed with one person, you’re not just sleeping with them. Well, it’s like that with Mitt.
When you elect Mitt, you’re not just electing him. You’re electing every right wing nut he’s pandered to in the last ten years. If the Mittmobile does roll into Washington it will be towing behind it the whole anti-intellectual anti-science freak show. The abstinence obsessives, the flat earthers, home schoolers, the holy warriors, the anti-women social neanderthals, the closeted homosexuals, and every endtimer who sees the Virgin Mary in the grass over the septic tank.
Now, I understand having issues with Obama, but stop to think of all the crap we haven’t had to deal with in the last four years. Anybody remember Terri Schiavo? Obama isn’t perfect, but he never turned the entire federal government into a Jesus freak episode of House. And he doesn’t have an attorney general like John Ashcroft, who once covered up a statue at the Justice Department because it was showing too much tit, like it was Janet Jackson.
I’m just saying, last four years, no crisis about boobies. No controversies about whether stem cells are actually tiny people. No Defense of Marriage Act, no Office of Faith Based Initiatives, no pedalling creationism at the national parks. Did you know that before Obama got in the Smithsonian couldn’t mention global warming as a possible reason the glaciers were shrinking? Because heat melting ice was just a theory. Yes, that was our daily diet of turd under the last business minded sensible moderate. And before you say, that was then, this is now, sitting in Congress right now we’ve got a fresh can of nuts just waiting to get cracked open.
Maher discussed Rep. Paul Broun who told his supporters that evolution, embryology, and the Big Bang Theory are lies from the pit of hell. He also mentioned the chair of the Science Committee, Ralph Hall, who claimed that we don’t need to mention global warming because God controls it. Maher also mentioned that Broun and Todd Akin are on the Science Committee, and said, “This is what you get with today’s Republican Party, and a new Republican administration would be an open for business sign to all the bizarre Bible thumping bulls**t that the Obama administration has given us a break from. And to those who say oh, don’t worry, Mitt Romney will stand up to the extreme elements of his party. There’s just one problem with that. It has the name Mitt Romney, and the words stand up in the same sentence.”
This may come as a shock to some people, but Mitt Romney doesn’t have the backbone of George W. Bush. Grover Norquist wanted a rubber stamp president and that is exactly who Mitt Romney would be. The reason why Romney hasn’t pulled his endorsement of Richard Mourdock is that he is absolutely terrified of the far right wing of the Republican Party. Romney is still trying to convince far right that he is one of them. If elected, Romney would cave and give the right everything that they want.
Bill Maher was right. All of the extremist right wing cultural baggage that most Americans disagreed with during the Bush years will return bigger than ever if Romney is elected. These people aren’t working so hard to elect Romney because they believe in him and support him. They are fighting tooth and nail for Romney because they desperately want to be back in power. One of the reasons why they hate Obama so much is because he has stopped their agenda dead in its tracks.
Romney wants to take the country away from the fact and science based presidency of Barack Obama, and plunge the country back into banning embryonic stem cell research while denying climate change. The meme of the campaign has been that the Romney social policy would take America back to the 1950s, and his economic policy would take the country back to the 1920s.
In reality, Romney’s goal is to restore the policies of George W. Bush.
The saying, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” is one that every voter should keep in mind as they weigh whether the future direction of the country will be guided by Mitt Romney or Barack Obama.
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dusty
Oct. 27th, 2012 at 10:44 am
remember when bushy II came in, he stacked the justice dept with bob jones jesus u, with lifetime appts, to high places in justice, and many of them are still there to this day. hence one of the reasons justice hasnt done anything about the banksters, [not the only reason] and of course our fav scotus shills. now if rMONEY wins, he will be bushy on steroids, and as you say bring in the complete clown car….
i do think this massive storm will take willy out of the echo chamber, as many red states for a week will be dealing with the not happening climate change super cell storms….
message for OUR god perhaps?????
if willy and the GOP somehow steal the election and get a majority in the congress, betcha we will see massive social upheaval that will make the sixties look like a day at grant park….. might be just the thing this complacent country needs….
oh, and i am not an anarchist, but a realist….
this is going to be a interesting 10 days.
dont boo, vote.
Biggfist
Oct. 27th, 2012 at 11:12 am
I don’t agree. I think Mitt Romney will stay away from religious / social issues because he (smartly) avoids talking about his religion as much as possible.
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 27th, 2012 at 11:21 am
He avoids it becuase he wont get elected if he talks about it. He is very anti abortion and anti womens rights. Just like his tax plan, he cant talk about it and get elected.
He is also heavily invested(morally) into his religion, which will not let him be neutral.
S
Oct. 27th, 2012 at 2:47 pm
You think. But in reality you can never know what Mitt Romney will do, because the man is constantly lying.
aaaallll
Oct. 27th, 2012 at 11:24 am
@aaaallll
Have you see Romney’s tax returns?
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 27th, 2012 at 11:24 am
LOL nice try! Hilarious post! Why didnt you just come out and say you want higher taxes and more wars?
BTW, who are the socialists and commies? I want to see if you just have cliches.
And, this will hurt. Republicans are far more likly to be caught with kids
A Walkaway
Oct. 27th, 2012 at 12:16 pm
(Laugh!) It looks like someone had a post deleted…
Your comments make me wonder if it was someone trying to imitate our own Conservative Heart, but being dead serious.
Ken
Oct. 27th, 2012 at 11:48 am
Remembers that add slogan; “Pep Boys does Everything for less” well dang!
A Walkaway
Oct. 27th, 2012 at 12:14 pm
Funny that Grover Norquist is mentioned. Knowing how the “Right” hates Muslims… doesn’t he have a Muslim wife?
They scream about President Obama being Muslim (which he’s not – and it wouldn’t matter if he was), but ignore the fact that a man with control over the Republican party as a whole and Mitt Romney in particular is married to a Muslim and promotes Muslims.
Talk about wearing blinders and being hypocritical!
(Personally, I’d say more power to him for helping what is a severely persecuted religious minority. However, the rest of his politics… well, they make him less than acceptable.)
Pat
Oct. 27th, 2012 at 12:42 pm
There is a lot of truth in what this article says. There is also quite a bit of over-reactionary bull-crap. Which is fair. What so often goes unmentioned in diatribes such as this is the fact that there are just many stupid, uninformed, bigoted and dangerous (liberals/atheists/homosexuals/etc.) as there are stupid, uninformed, bigoted and dangerous (conservatives/theists/heterosexuals/opposite etc.). Until we are able to have an argument about ideals and concepts without having to refer to the worst examples of the opposing factions’ adherents as a justification for dismissing the opposing viewpoint, we won’t find any common ground. The need to be “right” makes arguments an automatic win-lose and somebody has to be defensive in that case. Neither candidate will make any substantial difference in the way that government actually works, how our money is grossly misappropriated, and how large financial interests will continue to have increasing influence on how policies and laws are made and/or not made. I once heard it said that the continued and fervent pursuit of political solutions to mankind’s problems is futile because mankind’s most fundamental problems aren’t political. Amen. I love you, Bill. I think you’re pretty deeply misguided on some core issues, but your intellect is sharp and I personally find your humor hilarious. I’m a devout Christian and I not only laughed out loud at “Religulous”, I also agree with a lot of your points as well. Religion is not the same as spirituality, and I find that my experience with Christianity is far more akin to AA than what I was raised to expect from “church people”. The song “Jesus, Friend of Sinners” says’ “Nobody sees what we’re for, only what we’re against when we judge the wounded”. I think that statement is true from both sides of the political fence as well. The fact that we’re all wounded is a more compelling basis for relationship to me than pointing making fun of the fact that your wounds…
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 27th, 2012 at 12:50 pm
I think you will find that whatever you say about one party you can say about the other.
IE “liberals/atheists/homosexuals/etc.” also fits republicans and “conservatives/theists/heterosexuals/opposite etc” also fits democrats
A Walkaway
Oct. 27th, 2012 at 1:19 pm
“I once heard it said that the continued and fervent pursuit of political solutions to mankind’s problems is futile because mankind’s most fundamental problems aren’t political.”
After decades of abusive treatment at the hands of “Good Christians” (being a “Devout Christian” isn’t a recommendation), I’ve come to consider the idea that all problems are religious and solved by “JEEZZUHS” to be a total fallacy. I’ve observed how they treated the poor and sick… we’re second class citizens IF WE’RE LUCKY. The idea that prayer or following the dictates of some preacher will solve all the problems is pure BULLSHIT. It might help in some situations, but what is needed is the very thing you deride – political solutions.
Jesus was VERY political. He advocated non-violent resistance to Rome. He opposed the rich and powerful, and rebuked them all the time (look at all the scriptures that vilify the rich and powerful or insist on economic justice – shoot, the Jubilee system was set up for the sake of economic justice as well as for the ordinary people)!
He provided free healthcare to the poor.
Example of why you’re wrong:
Medical problems are solved by having access to medicine and medical help. “Obamacare” does that… and I don’t want to go back to not being able to get medical help (except the “You brought on yourself by SIN!” preaching by “Good Christians”) again – indeed, if it wasn’t for political wrangling I would be dead right now – they tried to take the money for the program that pays for my medicines and give it to the for-profit hospitals “to recompense them for poor people going to the emergency room” and the ordinary people STOPPED THEM. Thus, I (knock on wood) won’t have another stroke.
You’re wrong. DEAD wrong. I can argue 2000 years of history have shown how wrong arguments like yours are.
harris stein
Oct. 27th, 2012 at 1:36 pm
The isms that have characterised over 2000 years of history are all either dead letters or old hat today. The only ism that makes any sense for our political leadership today is “totalitarianism.” Even political leadership on the left has listened to the siren song of inverted totalitarianism peddled by our corporate state leadership. The economic power of the corporate state has been whispering in the ear of our political leadership ever since the end of the American Civil War in 1865. What has changed today is the incredible amounts of money at the disposal of the corporate state to affect change that favors them over “we the people.”
Your desire to find common ground has been stopped in its tracks by the corporate state since “common ground” doesn’t favor their interests. This will continue until we the people take control away from the corporate state. Electing Barack Obama was a step in the correct direction. A Romney-Ryan presidency is a step in the wrong direction.
Dab
Oct. 28th, 2012 at 10:17 am
As the country song lyric goes, “The bad guys always claim / Both sides are the same.”
It serves the Republican agenda to continually propagandize that both parties are the same, as this myth discourages people from voting.
The Democratic Party has its share of bad eggs, but NOTHING like the GOP’s nest of unethical lunatic vipers. The Democratic Party has never declared war on America, like the GOP did after Obama was elected.
An exageration? Not at all. What else do you call it when the GOP deliberately did everything it could to make unemployment worse, stop attempts to stimulate the economy, and stop attempts to help homeowners stay in their homes and refinance at lower rates (because the 95 billion that homeowners would save in interest might be used to BUY things and thus act as a “back-door stimulus”) — all because if ANYTHING happened to improve the situation, that would work to Obama’s benefit in the 2012 election…?
So far as I am concerned, the GOP declared itself a traiter-party the day they announced that making Obama a one-term president was their priority. The only way to make him a one-term president was to sabotage this nation. That is traitorous behavior.
No, both parties are not the same. One is trying to improve the lives of most Americans. The other would rather destroy this nation than lose control of it.
harris stein
Oct. 27th, 2012 at 1:20 pm
Bill Maher has hit the nail on the head dead center. A Romney-Ryan adminstration will bring on mob tyranny that the founders (Jefferson, Adams, Washington) were desperately trying to avoid with the system they put in place. It’s a replay all over again of the pre Civil War days when wealthy southern plantation owners tried to expand slavery into the western and northwestern territories.
Wealthy corporate executives and investors have replaced the plantation owners of pre Civil War days. They have used their economic power to create an inverted totalitarianism and the rabid fundamentalist mob of extemists is their mass movement.
If the Romney-Ryan administration gets in, you will see among moderates and centrists who voted them in, the biggest case of collective buyer’s remorse that has ever washed over the nation. Whether we will see mass civil unrest will depend on how a hypothetical Romney-Ryan administration deals with the rabid fundamentalist extremists. If Romney embraces the far right we could have a second civil war in this nation.
mrbowdrie
Oct. 27th, 2012 at 3:34 pm
If Romney/Ryan get into the White House, you’d better put some gold coin into a jar and bury it in the back yard because you’re likely to need it. The banks? The stock market? Not on your life. A Romney/Ryan cabal will take us back to the Bush years and you’d have to be blind not to see where those 8 years took us. I have to wonder if Romney wants to increase our already huge military as a hedge against massive unrest that could befall our own country.
Anne
Oct. 28th, 2012 at 10:32 am
Republicans are good at presenting examples of false equivalency. When someone points out Willard Romney’s mendacity and greed, there’s always one Republican or another to vainly try attributing the same behavior to the president. Back in 2008, they tried to diminish him by attempting to make Simple Sarah out to be his equal, since both were considered “charismatic.” What they failed to realize was that aside from any appeal Palin had, the president was and is stratospherically superior to her in every respect. Now, they try to sell the idea that the parties are the same, and we know nothing can be farther from the truth. Of course, the truth is not their friend.
DONALD
Oct. 30th, 2012 at 10:32 pm
People need to realize that ever since President Obama took office, the Congress and Senate verbalized how they were going to sabotage the President’s every policy, law, etc. That’s why we are no further than we are today. Look at the mess the country was in before he even took office. DID YOU AMERICAN PEOPLE FORGET THAT. And oh, dont forget about the 47% that Romney is not concerned about. If you werent born with a silver spoon in your mouth, not a millionaire now, it doesnt make any difference whether you are BLACK OR WHITE, YOU WONT BE THE PEOPLE HE WILL BE CONCERNED WITH. I cant stand ignorant people and you are ignorant if you think Romney can make it better. He even stated at a campaign ralley where he was speaking to a group of people that he could relate to black people because his ancestors were slave owners. He also stated how he would go into the black communities and give the black people their sense of pride back, give them a hard work ethic, and inform them that because they were freed centuries ago, that doesnt mean they have to still be freeloaders. See the article written by Sarah Wood in the Free Wood Post or check out the youtube presentation titled “Mitt Romney/slave owner. He is wrong wrong wrong for our country.
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 30th, 2012 at 10:36 pm
More tapes were released from that same supper tonight. He doesnt have a good opinion of anyone