Posted on 09/21/2019 12:55:57 PM PDT by ransomnote
Bill Maher criticized Democrats for resurfacing unsubstantiated sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and calling for the judge's impeachment.
Maher, the host of Real Time with Bill Maher, used his Friday night show to attack Democratic strategy and warned of the "Kavanaugh effect" that possibly cost multiple swing-state Democratic senators their seats in 2018.
"In the 2018 election, it looks like Democrats could’ve won Indiana, North Dakota, Florida, Missouri, and West Virginia. All five were home to Democratic senators running for election in tight races. Joe Manchin, the only one that voted for Kavanaugh, won. The other four lost," Maher said, describing the "Kavanaugh effect."
"They have polling on this. People did not like going after a guy for what he did in high school. It looked bad, and now Democrats are talking about impeaching him again?" Maher asked his panel.
NBC analyst Heather McGhee defended Democratic attacks on Kavanaugh, asserting that the allegations against Kavanaugh are relevant to his Supreme Court position as a "moral arbiter."
"Yes, it was about something a long time ago, but it goes to character. We are not talking about a job like we have. We are talking about being one of the nine moral arbiters of this great nation," McGhee said.
Maher called Kavanaugh a "creep" but maintained that Democratic attacks on the judge are mistakes and that people’s actions from high school should not burden them for the rest of their lives.
"We don't have the votes [to impeach him.] And now we lost seats. Are we going to do it again?" Maher asked. "Ruth Bader Ginsburg said glowing things about him. I think he’s an asshole. I think he shouldn’t be on the Supreme Court … [but] what were you like when you were 17, you know?"
Democratic attacks on Kavanaugh ramped up again after New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly adapted an excerpt from their book for an article in the newspaper.
The article appeared to drop a bombshell accusation against Kavanaugh that had not yet been reported, but the New York Times later corrected the article to reflect that the alleged victim did not remember the incident in question.
Before the article was corrected, several Democratic presidential candidates called for Kavanaugh's impeachment, including California Sen. Kamala Harris, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
Bill,
You’re in love with idiots.
...which make you?
ACME is growing very rich right now
>>NBC analyst Heather McGhee defended Democratic attacks on Kavanaugh, asserting that the allegations against Kavanaugh are relevant to his Supreme Court position as a “moral arbiter.”<<
That is completely f’ing ridiculous. NO ADULT has the same character or even morality they did even back to college. much less high school.
Why not go back to grade school? Pulling little Wendy’s pigtail at age 11 means that kid will be a woman abuser for his entire life, right?
That fig leaf won’t cover. But I think it is time some conservative reporters do deep investigations into the childhools of major lefty politicos AND reporters.
It’s funny...Maher is becoming politically homeless as he is quickly becoming despised by the far left.
Bill Maher is likely to be thrown out of the crazy party for not being crazy enough
Not a fan of Romney, but do you remember when the Dems tried to make a big deal of him ‘maybe’ hazing a guy in high school (wasn’t it cutting the guy’s hair??)? And yet, the fact that Joe Biden wanted to ‘help out’ his ADULT son in the Ukraine, crickets. The Left is sucking eggs BIG TIME!
I think Maher has admitted something about getting stomped in a mud puddle.
Grade school? The Left wouldn’t even go back to Bubba Clinton’s terms as governor. Not to mention B. Hussein Obama’s time in Pahkeestahn.
Dems are a$$holes.
“ACME is growing very rich right now”
HAHA! Good one!
BILL MAHER WEARS RED SHOES.
“...do you remember when the Dems tried to make a big deal of [Romney] ‘maybe’ hazing a guy in high school (wasn’t it cutting the guy’s hair??)”
Yes, Demon Barber Romney.
How long a life? How rich a businessman? How prominent a pol and public servant?
Armies of oppo researchers and THAT is what they came up with. Unverifiable (the alleged victim was dead, the man’s family told the media to buzz off) but still, they ran with it.
They ran with it on the front page of the WAPO.
So, of course I am one of many who does not care what Trump does, as long as he continues to win and continues to tell the MSM to Eff Off.
The stories are all made up.
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