Posted on 10/15/2011 4:00:11 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
Bill Maher may be anti-religion, but he's got faith in one thing: Herman Cain won't be the the 2012 Republican Presidential nominee.
Maher bet CNBC correspondent Michele Caruso-Cabrera $1 million that Cain won't earn the GOP nomination, and shook hands on the wager during Friday night's taping of his HBO political comedy show Real Time with Bill Maher.
Caruso-Cabrera was arguing that Cain's "incredible likeability factor" could carry him all the way when, Maher snarked back that he'd put a million dollars down against her one dollar that Cain won't win the nomination because Republicans can't deal with a non-white candidate.
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In Maher’s mind he is so powerful and important that Republicans will go out and vote en masse for Cain ONLY because Maher dared them to, and in his mind Cain would lose to Obama, so he’ll be able to claim he single-handedly stopped the racist Republicans.
Why anyone gets worked up over his schoolboy mentality silliness is beyond me. He’s not only obnoxious and intellectually desolate, he’s boring.
I'm not a lemming, but you are one snarky SON OF A PIG.
Take your condescending remarks and shove them, as there are many well versed financial people, like Paul Ryan, that think the 9-9-9 plan is a very good first step toward total tax reform.
Ignorant postings like yours, with only your smart assed comments about how stupid and non-thinking us TEA party "LEMMINGS" are, offer no facts just your smart mouth, no brain opinion.
This is more of the same vicious, divisive race baiting by Maher - she should have walked off the show.
He called American soldiers cowards as well.
Someone who knows so little should not shout so loudly.
Calling this POS disingenuous is a compliment.
very true
The lack of understanding on this board of how capitalism works is very discouraging.
Market forces will compel the employer to pay most or all of that 7% to the employee.
How does this make sense when Cain is the front runner?!?
Socialist hate-fiends just pull this stuff right out of their bums and don't even blink before they present BS as truth.
Cain should offer to take him up on that bet
I will too
I think Cain is on the move at the right time- and all we have to do is do something about mitt-for-brains before new hampshire.
Golly, I wish someone would bet me a cool mill that Cain can’t win.
The IRS has a stake in this public bet.
If the million changes hands, they will take at least 20%..
This is why any bets should be kept private.
I’m with Maher on this one.I believe that the fix is in for Rommy. Which will lead to a second term for obama.
That's why Art Laffer, Steve Forbes and the Club for Growth have endorsed it. They all said it would create an economic boom and fantastic job growth.
And there will be other endorsements of the plan coming along, I'm sure.
There have been many useful threads, but ICYMI, here's a good one that covers pretty much all the pros and cons that freepers could think up at this point. It's a helpful discussion for people wondering about 999 - but, please, spare yourself reading the article! :) It's the thread that's useful. The article will make you hurl.
Glad you asked, and I am with you 100% on totally ignoring any stunt that gnome BM comes up with.
I just see the 9-9-9 plan as something that switches the debate from “let’s lower the cost, size, and intrusion of the Federal Government”, to “how do we collect the money the Federal Government requires of the people to at least maintain its present scope and role in society.”
And, addind a balanced budget amendment to the 9-9-9 would not help, because the sales or VAT tax part of it hides the amount of money it extracts from you. How? Easy - the sales tax is not charged at point of sale, it it collected from the business on their Schedule C or Federal Corporate Income Tax Form (in addition to the 9% corporate tax), and the whole plan does nothing to get rid of the worry of trying to comply with the tax code, filing forms, hiring accountants and tax attorneys, audits, collections etc. So what if it gets rid of a few deductions to calculate and loopholes for some - others are written and quickly take their place (see 1986 tax reform).
There is so much wrong with it, I could not possible list them here right now - my main point is - it changes our focus from the real problem: Federal Government size and over-spending, to how do we extract the money from you!
Strong is He with the Force.
Isn’t making this bet technically illegal?
Grounds for indictment?
Grounds for conviction?
Grounds for execution?
I see something more here. Maher is not the first lib I’ve heard make this claim. It’s going around (I heard some guy say it on Sean’s show the other day & have heard others) - that Republicans are too racist to have Cain as our nominee.
To make a million dollar bet on it? I’d say it appears as though they are goading us. The way they think, the worst thing you can call a person is a racist - so in their twisted minds - they think that by goading us into proving we are NOT racists, we will make sure that Cain is our nominee.
Think about it - they always project what they do onto what they accuse us of doing - rigging voting machines, being racists, etc. They did this themselves - put Obama out there as their candidate - knowing that their white voters will vote for him to prove they are not racist. And it worked.
Stay with me now. So this latest meme is that we are too racist to have a black nominee, specifically Herman Cain. They THINK that will make us work hard to see that he is the nominee to prove that we are not racist.
There has to be an ulterior motive for this. There has to be something more - below the surface that they are plotting with this latest theme, there always is. And one thing we know beyond a shadow of a doubt, is that they don’t want us to win.
I don’t know, maybe they are holding something that they will put out there once Cain becomes the nominee - there is some reason that they want us to do this.
They may be stupid, but they are passionately determined and diabolically cunning.
If you enjoyed that soundbite, you just have to check out the whole speech. It was a barn-burner!
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