Fox’s Kimberly Guilfoyle: Romney Needs To Stand Up For America – And Use Rev. Wright To Smear Obama

When does Fox News not cheerlead for Mitt Romney? When he disapproves of featuring Rev. Jeremiah Wright in a smear campaign against President Obama. Last night, Sean Hannity forgot about how much he opposes “besmirching” in politics and was now complaining that his own candidate wouldn’t engage in it. But guest Kimberly Guilfoyle – who was liberal before it was expedient for her to be otherwise – took it a step further and suggested it was Romney’s patriotic duty to go that route. “Show us that no matter who our enemies might be… you’re going to be the president that’s going to stand for us,” she said in her most calculatedly rousing voice. I'm surprised she didn't stand up and salute the flag or start singing the Star Spangled Banner.

“I want Romney to treat Obama the way he did Gingrich and the way he attacked Santorum,” Hannity complained. As if Romney ever made such personal, below-the-belt attacks on either of them.

Guilfoyle agreed but then upped the ante:

I think too much is at stake. If you’re really passionate about the country and care about the direction that we’re going in, and I believe that he is, then you’ve GOT TO FIGHT for her. You have to stick up for the rest of us, for the American people. Show us that no matter who our enemies might be, no matter who comes against us, that you’re going to be the president that’s going to stand for us, that we can count on you not to cower.

Surprisingly, it was Eric Bolling who said that Romney was “doing the right thing.” “The economy should be the focus,” Bolling said. “Stay on his (Obama's) failures,” Bolling urged, such as “usurping the Constitution.”

Video via Mediaite.

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Dale Jones commented 2012-05-21 22:22:55 -0400 · Flag

Nice video clip…Three crypto fascist discuss if the race card should be played…

Dale Jones commented 2012-05-21 22:14:47 -0400 · Flag

Maybe the bizarre cult of Mormonism needs to come into play..Magic underwear that protects Mitt from the devil… Mitt believes Jesus and Satan are brothers?.. Mitt believes God lives on a planet called Kolab? Mitt believes that the Garden of Eden is in Missouri?..(specifically Jackson county MO where i reside ) And where the state militia fought a war against Mormons driving them out, and the Governor of Missouri issued an Execution order on any Mormon that remained on the books until 1976 …i could go on, but I’m new here and don’t want to hog up space

Visitor 55 commented 2012-05-20 13:21:32 -0400 · Flag

@Laurie – all the Obama campaign has to do is play clips of right-wing American Talibanists like Hagee, Dobson, Robertson and Falwell calling the Mormon religion a “dangerous non-christian cult”. That should damage the Rmoney campaign a bit.

zaglossus commented 2012-05-19 15:55:08 -0400 · Flag

Any conscientious executive of a news organization would pink slip these three.

zaglossus commented 2012-05-19 15:53:07 -0400 · Flag

Hannity during the 2008 campaign played the Rev. Wright clips 100’s of times. Didn’t do a bit of good. But this dim bulb doesn’t seem to realize it won’t work now either.

zaglossus commented 2012-05-19 15:50:35 -0400 · Flag

This woman used to be married to Gavin Newsom. She’s really gone over to the dark side.

truman commented 2012-05-19 10:31:14 -0400 · Flag

Etch-A-Sketch won’t soil his well-manicured fingers in direct racebaiting. He will delegate that task to his SuperPacs, including the biggest right-wing SuperPAC, AKA Fux Noise.

Thx4 Fish commented 2012-05-18 18:37:42 -0400 · Flag

I’ll assume the Romney campaign is savvy enough to realize taking campaign advice from a tabloid TV personalities is not the way to win the election. Hannity and Guilfoyle can pretend all day to be pundits offering helpful campaign advice, but the truth is that resurrecting the Wright connection would offer Hannity weeks of red meat for his low-brow viewers to nosh on, while offering Mitt more opportunity to step in a pile of dung. Something Mitt has proved to be constantly good at.

Barbara S. commented 2012-05-18 18:34:19 -0400 · Flag

Laurie- exactly. I bet the Romney camp called that superpac and begged with them to reconsider that ad. If this were any other topic, Romney could have disavowed it, while the superpac did the dirty work.

Laurie Bauer commented 2012-05-18 18:13:16 -0400 · Flag

If they bring religion to the forefront, then Romney better be prepared. The Mormon history is extremely colorful and scandalous – you cannot throw mud at someone without some of it coming back at you.

David R Woods commented 2012-05-18 17:52:56 -0400 · Flag

surly if EVER there was an American who had the RIGHT to speak his mind it would be the ex Marine aka Rev Wright he even nursed LBJ.what makes this preacher SOOOooo different from any other sunday morning mc who thinks god/america have this SPECIAL arrangement……

Barbara S. commented 2012-05-18 17:40:11 -0400 · Flag

I think the last thing Romney wants to bring to the forefront is religion.

Lakeview Greg commented 2012-05-18 17:37:55 -0400 · Flag

If those mopes aren’t on dope, they should be. Yikes what idiots.

Jeeez commented 2012-05-18 17:12:45 -0400 · Flag

I hope Mitt goes cheap and disgusting— in the sewer.
Seriously.
People on both sides already are creeped out by him, if he starts getting dirty it’s only going to hurt him.
Listen to the teabaggers Mitt!

Don D commented 2012-05-18 16:38:32 -0400 · Flag

Here’s why you cannot win an argument with partisan trolls:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/11/how_facts_backfire/

I’ve saved that link for so long because it’s spot on.

Aria Prescott commented 2012-05-18 16:08:48 -0400 · Flag

Count: Same here- All they can ever bring up is NDAA, and they shut up real fast when I link them up to that John McCain penned that provision and railed it into the vote through closed door sessions.

I know why that stops normal people, but normally you can’t shut a Neocon up with a full roll of duct tape.

Count Istvan commented 2012-05-18 15:51:14 -0400 · Flag

Iâve asked neocons before and have never gotten an answer, âlist Obamaâs failures?â

Born Black.

Visitor 55 commented 2012-05-18 15:49:49 -0400 · Flag

âStay on his (Obama’s) failures,â Bolling urged, such as âusurping the Constitution.â

I’ve asked neocons before and have never gotten an answer, “list Obama’s failures?” Not a single one of them can give me an honest or accurate answer. They just repeat what their FoxGOPTV masters tell them “Obama is a failure” but they can’t tell me how exactly.

Note to Balling: If Obama is “usurping the Constitution” (which he isn’t or hasn’t), wouldn’t that be considered a success, stupid?

Visitor 55 commented 2012-05-18 15:43:06 -0400 · Flag

Use Rev. Wright to smear Obama? Yeah, because that worked so well in 2008. Another thing is, how can Obama be an e-vile Muslim when he attended Rev. Wrights Christian church? Oh! And another thing, it wouldn’t help LDS cult member Rmoney one bit to attack anyone’s religion.

By the way, I don’t know about anyone else, but when you listen to ALL of Rev. Wright’s “chickens coming home to roost” sermon, he sounds like an anti-govt teabagger.

Dusty Rhodes commented 2012-05-18 15:13:22 -0400 · Flag

‘Kimberly Guilfoyle â who was liberal before it was expedient for her to be otherwise’ yep, she went thru gavin newsome in about a ny minute… but the word is [sorry for the perjorative] but it fits, kimmy is a whore, that will sell her soul to be on tv… i remember her in the o.c. ca. da’s office, and because she was atractive, they would trot her out for press ops…

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