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.
So why couldn’t it have been both? I’ll bet SOMEONE in the WH staff wondered out loud about the Klown Kar review making this a big deal. If they didn’t then the WH staff is woefully deficient in political sense. You have to evaluate these things in a political sense. Which is probably why all this was done in January to (hopefully) avoid a thorough going over by the R’s currently then running.
Remember, that was while Cain and Perry were still running, Santorum got screwed out of his Iowa win, the Newtster was raising hell in SC and the economy was still bad enough to be thought that it could not recover in time to save Obama’s ass.
Then the economy DID begin to recover. And to recover in areas big enough to believe that it was systemic and not a flash in the pan. This after all the gloom and doom of the past 3 months were beginning to lead people to think that the R’s were cheering for American failure –>> Enter the NewtronMan with culture wars.
I love it when a plan comes together.
But no one forced the Republicans to throw a fit over the provision of birth control as a basic medical right for all women.
Especially since the ObamaCare is the same as RomneyCare re: birth control. It puts the guy who was supposed to be the GOP nominee, and who might still eventually be, in quite the pickle, I’d say.
Never. It’s her team.
When the Red Sox go for years and years without the same shortstop two seasons running, when the catching position’s an open sore, when one of the new starting pitchers has never pitched from the wind-up in the majors, do I suddenly become an Orioles fan or something?
No.
To understand American politics all you need, instead of the Federalist Papers, or Richard E. Neustadt’s presidency book, is a big foam “We’re #1” finger.
It’s the paycheck. If she fled the GOP who would bother to read any more of her opinions?
Did anyone else notice Parker’s reference to “Santorum’s surge”? This election season is proving more fun than any I can recall.