The Contraception Fight May Cost The GOP The White House and The Senate

[Swede]

Elizabeth Warren’s campaign has already issued a statement tying Senator Brown to the GOP presidential contenders, stating: “Sen. Brown took sides with Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and the right wing of his party against the people of Massachusetts, who in tough economic times rely on insurance to get the healthcare they need,” while New York Senator Chuck Schumer questioned Brown’s moderate credentials, saying “Scott Brown’s trying to portray himself as a moderate? Well, this vote shows he’s not very moderate.”

Put simply, voting in favor of an amendment that – as Harry Reid put it — had been hijacked by the “extreme ideological” element of the right, will make any argument that Scott Brown or Mitt Romney might have that they are in fact social moderates a much more difficult position to substantiate.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/dougschoen/2012/03/02/the-contraception-fight-may-cost-the-gop-the-white-house-and-the-senate/

[bullwinkle428]

1. I took the liberty of correcting the mistake in the opening line :

"Senator Elizabeth Warren’s campaign has already issued a statement"

[Vincardog]

2. I hope it costs them the House too. As well as all the Conservadems

[immoderate]

5. Unfortunately, it's what we need.

Any branch the Republicans control will resort to nihilism. They don't want to govern, they want to control.

--imm

[librechik]

3. oh yeah, GOP , blame it on "the extremists" when your whole party is a disgusting moronic mess!

Still, trust the 19th Century Party to dig up the contraception issuer from the distant past and turn it into the camel that broke the straw's back, so to speak

[nanabugg]

4. It should cost them the House also. nt

[GoCubsGo]

8. Yep.

That, among many other things.

[Arugula Latte]

6. It is amazing how this issue has pulled back the curtain

and revealed the breadth and depth of Republicans' absolute hatred toward women and their overwhelming desire to control and crush women. It's not just a handful of nuts -- anti-woman legislation is popular in all states where Republicans are in control.

[Ikonoklast]

7. If President Obama fully intended and foresaw the consequences of his decision on this matter,

he is the most astute practitioner of political Jiu Jitsu that has ever been born.

The Republicans are tearing themselves apart over making contraception this huge religious issue in the eyes of voters, as the vast majority of the electorate practices and uses birth control

The Republicans have either walked directly into a very sophisticated trap set by this president, or laid the mines themselves and then walked right into them.