At what point does Kathleen Parker give up and leave the Republican Party? If Rick Santorum wins the nomination will that be sufficient provocation? If so, then why does Ms. Parker go out of her way to say that Santorum is a good man. And if even a Santorum candidacy can’t pry her away from the GOP then why is she saying that Ricky belongs in another century?
Also, too, Ms. Parker seems to think the Republicans have been 11th-dimensional-chessed into oblivion by a clever and conniving president. But no one forced the Republicans to throw a fit over the provision of birth control as a basic medical right for all women. When Catholic universities are already providing health care plans that cover contraception, and Catholic hospitals are already providing sterilizations all over the country, your stupid “religious liberty” argument is a wee bit flawed.
It is easy to set the Republicans up because they can be relied upon to act in certain ways. But they’re also unpredictable because they’re crazy. If you set a trap to make them alienate women as a gender in a presidential election year, would they walk in that door? It’s a fun theory, but Obama just wanted women to have good quality health care and to reduce medical costs for them and for the government. Maybe Ms. Parker should focus on that last part, because she won’t convince herself to stay with the GOP by recycling Mitch McConnell’s dishonest talking points.
