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Bill Maher: Romney Can’t Run To Santorum’s Right, Only People There Are ‘Kirk Cameron And The Neo-Nazi Party’

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After a week of heavy emphasis on social issues and a possibly-related surge of Rick Santorum in national polls, Mitt Romney is throwing all of his egss in the Michigan basket, and Bill Maher said on his show tonight that after months of Romney being the inevitable nominee, there is now a very real chance that Romney’s coronation may not happen. And if Romney loses Michigan, the entire Republican contest may descend into absolute chaos.

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But leaving the hyperbolic pseudo-apocalyptic rhetoric aside, RealClearPolitics’ Erin McPike suggested that a Romney loss in Michigan would lead to a brokered convention this fall. Maher prayed that Sarah Palin get back in the race again (which she hasn’t exactly ruled out as a possibility). Steve Moore pinned Romney’s inability to connect with voters as his main weakness, but it is technically “his turn” in the Republican party due to his strong showing in 2008 against John McCain.

Eliot Spitzer noted the three separate wings of the GOP: the libertarians, the social conservatives, and the “corporate leadership.” The odd candidate out in this is Newt Gingrich, who has been totally eclipsed by Santorum on the “Not Romney” front. But Maher argued Romney is less effective this time around because the same strategy he used to take down Gingrich won’t work on Santorum.

“He can’t be to the left, because he’s so suspect to the Republican base as a conservative that he cannot in any way go to the left of Rick Santorum. That’s why when the idea of states outlawing contraception came up, he said, ‘Well maybe that’s a good idea.’ But he can’t be to the right of Rick Santorum because there’s nothing to the right except Kirk Cameron and the Neo-Nazi Party.”

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Moore tried to argue that President Obama successfully played to the left of Hillary Clinton in 2008, a notion which both Maher and Spitzer disputed, and Spitzer argued that in fact Obama was to the right of Clinton in the race. Maher suggested another problem of Romney’s was his inability to be human, with odd phrases spewing out of his mouth like “the trees are the right height” and “the grass is the right color.” Any candidate for office has to be able to successfully convey the message that they are from the planet Earth, but it looks like Romney hasn’t even been able to accomplish that.

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  • Anonymous

    Rick Santorum on Mad Men – Peggy and the gynecologist

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1bPoSEii2M

  • Anonymous

    The Trees are the right height…… LMAO WTF? 

  • Anonymous

    Romney doesn’t connect with average Americans because Romney isn’t and has never been an average American. That’s not a necessary prerequisite, but it helps a lot.

    Hell, even GWB got fvcked up on weekends like normal people. 

  • Anonymous

    HBO could not find anyone shorter than Maher to host the show as Verne Troyer has more important things to do and Herve Villechaize is dead.

  • Anonymous

    Before Mittens can run to the right of any of the other candidates, Mittens needs to get to the right of  center of the political spectrum.

    The only thing Mittens is running right of, is the left wing of the democratic party.

  • Anonymous

    Short jokes? puleeeze….Maher always makes me laugh..:-)

  • Anonymous

     What a weak ad hominem attack. You don’t think Peter Dinklage would host a show like this if offered?

  • Anonymous

    Republicans why are you not asking Mitt Romney for his birth certificate? or better yet the model and serial number of his motherboard?

  • Verreauxii

    So true. Honestly…that inability to connect with people will be his albatross. Optics are everything in politics. Perry looked good on paper, until he opened his mouth and looked like a buffoon on TV. It’s one reason why Obama was successful in 2008. He was an imperfect candidate, but importantly, he did not LOOK like it when he presented himself and his ideas.

  • Anonymous

    Romney just needs to do the same thing Bush did in his campaigns, read the script, don’t deviate, and don’t elaborate.  Just say your piece, smile, do that stupid wave thing and for God’s sake, do not free style.  Mitt needs a teleprompter and an electrified dog collar for himself and if he even thinks of going rogue, someone on his staff needs to push the button.

  • Anonymous

    nobody cares

  • Verreauxii

    Leave the jokes to Foster Friess.

  • Anonymous

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The type of people Obama can thank for his 2nd term.

  • Anonymous

     Obama wasn’t a candidate. He had passed no legislation. Keep up.

  • Anonymous

    Leave the abuse to Maher.

  • Anonymous

    Democrats, why are you online asking about Mitt Romney and other Republicans? Or better yet, why is your social life so tragic? I have my excuse. What’s yours?

    (I’m sure Pork will leave a crude comment as that is all he seems to be able to do.)

  • Anonymous

    Trees are the right height? I almost feel sorry for Romney. It seems like his brain has crashed and needs to be rebooted.  For the sake of the Republicans, we just hope his hard drive is not all fragmented. 

  • Verreauxii

    I would have loved to ‘keep up’ if you had made any fvcking sense, sport. Sounds to me a like a case of sour grapes after getting your clocks cleaned.

  • Anonymous

    “Democrats, why are you online asking about Mitt Romney and other Republicans?”

    huh?  

  • Anonymous

     Hey, remember when you were convinced that Sarah Palin was going to run and win in 2012? I do!!

    Cue excuses/explanations for how she actually serves the country more in her current role. hahahaha. silly rube.

  • Anonymous

     Because he was born and raised in Michigan.

    Barrack Hussein Muhammad Obama was born on a small American island in the pacific and grew up in Indonesia praying to Mecca five times a day.   TRUE STORY  

  • Anonymous

    I do too!!! OMG!!!!

    Remember when you had a life? Oh you don’t? I do!!!!

    I can’t wait until you watch Obama lose. It will be enjoyable.

    Popcorn ready.

  • Anonymous

    Sport? And you’re yelling at Foster Freiss? Hahahaha

    Who the heck uses the word sport anymore? You must be older than 50. Why don’t you go play shuffleboard? The game is awesome!

    I’m glad that I wasn’t taught to curse or type things like Guffaw. What weird commentary.

    Oh, I do enjoy how Palin means nothing yet garners Mediaite’s most fervent “supporters.” Keep up the good work.

  • Verreauxii

    I remember so well. She was tellng us how ignorant and wrong we were for thinking that Palin would NOT run. Ever since then, everything that WC says, the inverse should be assumed to be true. 

  • Anonymous

     Palin is running in 2012. Keep up.

  • DoNotMindMe

    The Neo-Nazi party actually supported Occupy Wall Street…. so…. Maher’s point is invalid. 

  • DoNotMindMe

    Didn’t you use this joke yesterday? 

  • Verreauxii

    I have much colorful & choicer words I would prefer to use but Mediaite police would not be too happy with me. Unlike you, I prefer maintaining my one user account status. So, maybe you can expound on that prattle you introduced earlier about Obama’s candidacy…perhaps?

  • Verreauxii

    She is? Where’s the FEC filing? You are truly delusional. Guffaw. 

    Maybe you meant she was running for city council of some backwoods town or for the Wasilla PTA. Surely not for the office of the potus. Keep hallucinating, dunce.

  • Anonymous

     The fact that you would even think to exercise such words says more about your state of mind than anything else.

    I love that you think my using a second account so odd. It looks like Palin is so irrelevant that she gets more comments than Maher does. 

    Keep up the good work, sport.

  • Anonymous

    It’s not my fault that you don’t understand what I implied.

    I like how you like to call Republicans names, yet attack small town America in one swoop. I’m sorry that you choose to live in America while you have such hate for it. That is truly sad commentary on your part.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    “why is your social life so tragic?”
    You’re posting here, too, loser.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    and you also think the moon landing was faked, and the Roswell aliens abducted Elvis. TRUE STORY

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    and they supported the tea parties.
    also, CPAC hosted white nationalists on their panels.

  • Anonymous

    MrPorkChops posts all day. Either he’s retired or he gets paid to do it. Keep up Bob.

    I also said that I had my excuse. It’s not my fault you can’t understand context. I do enjoy the liberal bullying though. Keep up the good work Bob.

  • Anonymous

     Please learn to capitalize. That is all.

  • Anonymous

    Troll Much?

  • Anonymous

    “MrPorkChops posts all day. Either he’s retired or he gets paid to do it.”

    And this bothers your life how?

  • Anonymous

     my God…stop with the “keep up”. It’s ridiculous, annoying, and juvenile. Adding a derrogatory 2 words at the end of all your posts does NOT make you sound smarter or more correct. It makes you sound like you have Less to say…therefore relying on a catchphrase. Like arguing with a clown.

  • Anonymous

    For the love of G*d Mitt call Rush on his show and pay your protection money & get it over with. If you don’t pay your respect to the mafia hit man masquerading as a radio talk show host, you have no business thinking you can close the on your own achievements merits

    Rush can make the case to his lemmings on your behalf as he did for the crooked serial adulterer, a mono-syllabic racist Texan and the 999 sexual predator… a black one mind you… all under the rubric of standing up for conservatism & it worked. Can’t argue with results. Rush is the David Blaine of politics in conserva-world

  • Anonymous

    You do know that you are a very pretentious immature person. 

    Childish also comes to mind.

  • Anonymous

    Will use it in the future as well.

  • Anonymous

    LMAO, mental picture just cracks me up.DOH.

  • Anonymous

    Romney doesn’t need to get to the right of Santorum, he just needs to use the other “n-word”: Neo-con.  Santorum for years was defined by the GW Bush era of big spending conservatism, government social engineering, and Hawkish let’s-start-wars-we-can’t-afford-everywhere foreign policy.

    All Romney has to do is convince people that 4 years of Santorum would basically be G W Bush on steroids.  It would be easy enough, but I don’t have faith that Romney’s people are that smart. 

  • Anonymous

    Mittens is vulnerable to the N word to, Neo Liberal and that He would just be another 4 years of Obama Lite, which we can’t afford at all.

    New CBO numbers put unemployment at 15%+ With 13 million unemployed on the rolls and 11 million that are no longer counted by the BLS.

    4 more years of even Obama Lite is a disaster.

  • Anonymous

    Obama has his own problems the biggest being 15%+ unemployment and adding $5.6 trillion to the national debet.

  • Anonymous

    Actually this story was about Romney.  I’m sooooooooo ready for election night.  Bring it Palin lover!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    At least she stopped with the “epic fail” comments.  You’re welcome.

  • Anonymous

    Rick Santorum – Mad Man.

  • Anonymous

    Right of Santorum – there is no “right” of Santorum.  All wrong.

  • 12voltman1

    Great clip….One of the best links in a while!
    It shows how men have control over a womans body or sex life. Not unlike the panel of all men Congress just had on woman’s rights on birth control.
    Things really haven’t changed that much.
    Maybe we should have our woman dress in the beekeeping outfits the way Arab woman have to.

  • 12voltman1

    “I love the Great Lakes and all the baby lakes…”
    LOL

  • 12voltman1

    It is still funny,

  • 12voltman1

    The Republicans have a weak field of candidates Mittens or A$$ juice.

  • Anonymous

     And who do the Mormons pray to?

  • Anonymous

     It’s more important that we attack each other than try to work together to solve the problems in this country. Keep up that “us vs. them” mentality, very constructive.

  • Anonymous

     I love Cars!

  • Anonymous

     And the Economy is improving…. it takes more than 3 years to fix what bush destroyed in 8.

  • 12voltman1

    He needs to fire his speech writer.
     Maybe an adult would be better choice.

  • Anonymous

    Make sure you pop enough to fill the hole in your head after the results are in.The only thing popping louder than the popcorn will be cons heads when the results are in,it’ll sound like bushels of burnt out light bulbs tossed over a balcony and hitting the concrete!!!LMFAO!!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Would do better just by miming the rest of the campaign.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     And I’m a snarky little (you know)

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Yes it is.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     Leave EVERYONE alone.

  • Anonymous

    What’s Mitt going to do if he campaigns in California?  Insist they chop down all the Sequoias and Redwood trees because they’re too tall?

  • http://gamewhen.com/ Michael T

    The Wall Street Journal guy (Stephen Moore) came across as a real lightweight. Perhaps Maher added him to the panel because he is not the annoying bomb thrower type.

    He sure didn’t contribute anything substantial and even made some factual errors.

  • Anonymous

    Friday night all the TV newscasts showed explosions on the Sun.  They won’t harm people on Earth because the planet has a molten metallic core that rotates with the planet, setting up a magnetic field to protect us.  Mormons believe that after death, they will become gods of their own planet!  Wouldn’t it be ironic if after Willard dies, he becomes god of a planet WITH a core, while on Earth, he didn’t have one himself! 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jo-Hargis/100002882420472 Jo Hargis

     There is actual truth to your funniness =) A month or two ago, Romney’s campaign staff was letting him ad lib, and after repeated gaffes, they put him back on a teleprompter for speeches to try to rein in the gaffes.  Every time the guy is let loose, he says the most incredibly stupid things! I’m still laughing over Howard Fineman’s comparison of Mitt to the Coneheads…”Your trees are the right height…”.

  • 12voltman1

    I can’t think of another candidate that was/is right of Santorum this primary season.

  • Anonymous

    Correct.  People with no moral, ethical, intellectual center.

  • http://twitter.com/aggsveprogressv AgressiveProgressive

    He also said that he loves cars about 20 times, he loves American cars even though the car he drives in his recent ad in MI is made in Canada.  The man’s laugh is so uncomfortably fake. It makes other’s uncomfortable. 

  • http://twitter.com/aggsveprogressv AgressiveProgressive

    I have feeling that GWB got fucked up more often than on the weekends. 

  • http://twitter.com/12barbluz Lightnin’ James

    Santorum would be the first Gynecologist-in-Chief. 

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     Takes ZERO legislation to be a candidate, Idiot.
    Does your diploma look like your mom’s handwriting?

  • Anonymous

    Better include yourself on that list Pig Maher.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TN4EO3HGP3ITIVKK3265IJQBFE John P

    Steve Moore is a drooling tool.

  • Anonymous

     Epic fail.

  • Anonymous

    Learn to capitalize.
    You assume that I’m trying to add context with my words. This is the internet. There is no context other than bored people leaving commentary. Keep up.
    Less shouldn’t be capitalized.
    I enjoy your internet bullying. Name-calling is such a good quality to teach others. Oy vey.

  • Anonymous

    Hi exGOP!!!

    How are you?

  • Anonymous

     You respond to people you can’t stand? Odd.

    But it makes your posts on Palin make much more sense.

  • Anonymous

     If you would like an agreement in which we both don’t respond to one another, it won’t. I’m willing to make such an agreement and overlook your rude commentary.

  • Anonymous

     I’m glad that you will not vote for Obama and his dividing ways then. Awesome.

  • Anonymous

     Any person on the Left talking about anything Tea Party is crazy.

  • Anonymous

    Yet you continue to talk to me. Odd behavior.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    The inability for the GOP to attract any top talent for leadership speaks volumes about this morally and intellectually bankrupt party.

    The fact that they could turn to an extremist freak like Santorum only confirms their decline.

  • Anonymous

    Do you expect any serious person to take you seriously when you say foul stuff like that?

  • Anonymous

     die painfully okay? preferably by getting your face cut to ribbons with a pocketknife.

  • Anonymous

    You could replace that Steve Moore clown with a tape machine as all he could repeat were the most hackneyed and cliched wingnut talking points.

  • 12voltman1

    Ok, who do you think will be president in Jan 2013?

  • 12voltman1

    She’s a prude.

  • Anonymous

    The CBO, Just eviscerated Obamas claims.

    23 million unemployed does not equal a improving economy.

    Just as in the Great Depression, Wall Street is making money, Main Street is dieing.

    Anyone with a bit of comprehension who looks at the BLS numbers can see that Unemployment is underreported by 30+%, and as far as a recovery? Where are the jobs? Where are the new businesses? Why is our trade deficit with other nations increasing?

    The U.S. Economy has lost 7.9 Million jobs that have not been replaced, 2.7 million just in January alone, and You are claiming the Economy is improving?

    Yes, and I have a Bridge in Brooklyn that is a sure bet to make money if You buy it today.

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