On Wednesday night, Jon Stewart checked in on the race for the Republican presidential nomination to see which candidate had an edge in courting the reddest of red voters among the party’s base.
Dubbing it the race for the presidency of ‘Base-istan,’ Stewart ran through comments several prospective GOP candidates have made on the party’s hot-button issues.
There was Herman Cain who, believing the base to be “God fearing” but “Allah terrified,” said he would appoint no Muslims to federal office. Newt Gingrich also warned of the creeping influence of Islam, saying in one speech that he feared his grandchildren would grow up in an atheist, Islamist society.
“How could a secular atheist country be dominated by religious extremists?” Stewart asked.
“What is an atheist Islamist? Do they pray five times a day to a God they don’t believe exists?”
On abortion, Stewart brought up a comment by Rick Santorum that abortions, by depleting the number of workers in America, were causing a shortfall in Social Security.
“I guess you could then also make the argument that we wouldn’t be in this Social Security predicament in the first place if more of the baby boomers had just been aborted,” Stewart said.
Watch the videos below:
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Indecision 2012 – Base Race – Bachmann, Cain & Gingrich | ||||
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| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Indecision 2012 – Base Race – Santorum, Barbour & Trump | ||||
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