Bill Maher: GOP brand is ‘pink slime’

[highplainsdem]

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Source: Politico

Maher wrote that Mitt Romney pivoted to the middle after the GOP primaries more so than other politicians have in the past, and he critiqued a Michele Bachmann campaign ad in which the tea party star called herself an “independent voice.”

“Wow. …I’m just saying. When even Michele Bachmann can’t run as a proud Republican, your brand identification has reached ‘pink slime’ territory,” Maher wrote, referring to the processed food additive that created a consumer uproar.

As for Romney, Maher wrote: “Mitt Romney lost because of the Republican brand and Republican policies.”

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The host of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” added: “There are other reasons, of course, like, Mitt being unlovable to anyone not named Ann Romney, but nothing trumps the idea that 2/3rds of America thinks the other 1/3 is a frightening conglomerate of Bible-thumpers, xenophobes and vaginophobes. (Not a word, but should be.)”


Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83590.html

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Link to Maher's blog post, "Why the Republicans Lost":

http://www.real-time-with-bill-maher-blog.com/real-time-with-bill-maher-blog/2012/11/8/why-the-republicans-lost.html

[Major Nikon]

1. I almost pissed myself

[yurbud]

2. Karl Rove is definitely a vaginaphobe given his hissy fit and running away from...

Sheryl Crow and Don Siegelman's daughter.

[ThoughtCriminal]

3. All of the GOP finger pointing and excuses

seem to be limited to failure of campaign tactics, personalities and planning.

It sounds a lot like a marketing department trying to come up with a "New advertising strategy" after the last ad campaign for "Shit Cola" failed again.

[meow2u3]

4. Pink slime? I thought the GOP brand was green slime

Even yuckier!

[PfcHammer]

5. Sour milk is how I think of it. Way past its expiration date.

Pour that shite down the toilet!

[forestpath]

6. Pink slime minus the ammonia.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Locking - not Latest Breaking News

This is opinion written by Maher on his blog, not news. It would be better in GD, Politics 2012 or Good Reads. Thank you.