Bill Maher ripped into Democratic candidates on his HBO show Friday night for distancing themselves from President Barack Obama and their own achievements on the 2014 campaign trail.
“The Democrats have three Senate candidates who won’t even admit to having voted for Obama. Kentucky’s Alison Grimes was an Obama delegate! How do you explain that?” he said. “It’s like if someone asked, ‘Do you have sex with your husband?’ and you replied, ‘I’d rather not say.'”
“Come on, Democrats. You gave people health care. Not herpes. Own it.”
Maher took particular aim at American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken, a candidate for a deeply conservative House seat, for refusing to embrace Obama or take more progressive positions. “You’re gay in North Carolina,” he said. “There actually is, in North Carolina, a liberal base that you could have energized.”
Gotta agree with Maher here. Democrats have been cowards. They have allowed Republicans to run against someone who isn’t even running without having anything of their own to run on. And refusing to do anything about it. It’s unacceptable.
This is the same Maher who supported Rand Paul, he has no room to be throwing stones.
I vote democratic and this is the sorriest bunch i’ve seen in years. The guy running against Michael Grimm
deserves to lose. Why? Why?
Maher once again doesn’t understand that all politics is local. There are 469 different campaigns, and 50 states. Expecting every campaign to be run exactly 100% the same is to be politically tone deaf. Al Franken can sing Obama’s praises all he wants to because he’s in Minnesota, which is extremely left wing. On the other hand. Grimes can’t say anything about Obama, because Kentucky is fairly conservative. All politics is local and involves getting the votes of constituents you wouldn’t normally get.
That egomaniac has the best writers.