In the words of Captain Kirk, “I’ll give him this: He’s consistent.”
Bill Maher assessed the outcome of the midterm elections by restating his past position that the pro-Republican electorate was driven mostly by the president’s race.
“I know the Republicans are going to hate me for saying this, but I think the issue in this election was still the first black president. I really do,” Maher said Friday night. “I think it was still resentment about his winning re-election and it was just those people who came out to vote, wanted to prove to the rest of America that they were right all along about how much Obama sucks.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a guest on Maher’s “Real Time” program, said the results were more about how the GOP successfully blamed the president for the middle class’ struggles as the economy continues to heal from the financial crisis. That prompted Maher to back off a tad — but he found a way to work in a brand new racially charged metaphor.
“OK, so it’s not about race. I was crazy. And yet, I noticed that Georgia’s John Barro, he lost his race. He is the last white Democrat. The South is now solid Republican the way it was solid Democrat at one point. It seems to me like the Civil War is still going on, it’s just being fought politically now.”
On Tuesday, South Carolina elected the first black senator from the South since reconstruction. Additionally, Utah chose the first black congresswoman in the Republican Party’s history.
