Bill Maher: Rick Santorum ‘Thinks Life Begins At Erection’

[pokerfan]

The absurd premise of Maher’s joke underscores a running theme in socially conservative politics. Being a socially conservative man doesn’t require you to do anything at all, other than telling women what to do. Can you imagine a law requiring men to look at their swimmers under a microscope before they masturbate, or requiring a penile probe under any circumstances? Legislatively speaking, having a penis, if you’ll pardon the expression, comes in handy.

Maher went on to observe that this election has recently been sidetracked, from the economy to social wedge issues like contraception and gay marriage. “I think it’s funny that — you know, this election, remember, up until recently, it was going to be — election. all about money, all about deficits and jobs and the deficit and they’re spending too much. This is what the — the Tea Party was so upset about, right?”

Maher continued, “And then, you know, somebody shoves a big gay penis in their face and they jump at it.”

While Maher’s overall point is correct, recent events have this election shaping up to be the Year of the Vagina. From the right’s all out assault on Planned Parenthood (thus far, a spectacular failure), to the Catholic church’s effort to control the vaginae of non-religious employees, to the Republican War on Contraception that the Obama administration drew them into, to the forced vaginal probing law that Virginia’s legislature is now considering, the 2012 election has become a fight for control of vaginas, by the bepenised. Come November, these guys might finally learn that this kind of control should be exercised by kegel muscles, not the government.

Here’s the clip, from The Tonight Show:

Video: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-rick-santorum-thinks-life-begins-at-erection/

[tech_smythe]

1. If that were truly the case i'd be guilty of genocide

[K Gardner]

2. LOL! I missed this episode, thanks for posting. n/t

[Mosaic]

3. Can we please stop wasting hot air on rw wedge issues?

Don't let them set the conversation for the year. Don't let them have power over you.

[pokerfan]

5. Wedge?

It's a much bigger wedge problem for them than it is for us. Even repukes (some/many) use birth control. (I mean, aside from their natural contraceptive method, i.e. their personalities) and the fact that they are still pushing the issue after the compromise proposal is political suicide on their part.

Even setting aside the political machinations, I would still fight it because I don't want to live in some kind of Talibanesque theocracy where basic reproductive rights are illegal, with the penalty being what, stoning?

[ScottLand]

4. I thought it began with the twinkle in father's eye.