The GOP has always danced up to the precipice before where women's issues were concerned and

[Skidmore]

then strolled away for awhile. They don't really want to lose the reproductive rights issue and are punishing Akin for making sure that the real core of their platform is front and center for all to see. They don't really want an organized voting block of women against them. GOP operatives have worked long and hard to divide women over control of their bodies and it has made an excellent campaign flashpoint for them for too long. One which has allowed them to tap that vein of resentful postfeminist movement good ole boys and their equally resentful female counter parts. When push comes to shove, most women in modern day America will not live in a society without access to birth control.

Let's remove this campaign issues once and for all. I'm sick of the elephant dancing on the bodies of women across the nation and the world.

[madrchsod]

1. i think they really fucked up this time...

to much shit has been thrown at women by the lower form of life republicans for this to go away.

i`m sure there are a lot of republican women who are wondering if there is any room left in the party for them and their daughters.

[Warren DeMontague]

2. The problem is, the base of that party wants to outlaw all contraception & institute "Biblical Law"

They need to keep these crazies happy because they are the go-to grunts for voting and canvassing. The Koch bros. will spend billions on ads, but they're sure as shit not going to spend all day going door-to-door.

But the agenda is way out of whack with what the vast majority of America- which is pro-choice and CERTAINLY doesn't want to fill our prisons with women who take the pill- believes.

So they squirm whenever the conversation gets too close to reality.

[Fumesucker]

3. Americans are perfectly comfortable filling prisons with people who take the wrong pill..

I don't see why it would be any different with birth control pills if the propaganda is just slanted the right way.

[Warren DeMontague]

4. Yeah, there's that.

Although I think things are trending away from that, now. I think people are starting to question why they have to pay so much for the drug war.

[Hydra]

5. The Core Republican female base is hopefully dying out

My grandmother was one of them- she voted against the ERA because she was afraid of unisex bathrooms and women who burned their bras.

Too many people who should have been lifelong Dems got seduced by the conservative movement when it promised them nothing would ever change and they would all be filthy rich.

[cali]

6. I disagree. The republicans have severely eroded

the reproductive rights of women, both in Congress and in state after state. In Congress the House has been doing its damnedest to cut all funding of PP and to erode women's access to birth control in the ACA.

They place anti-choice Justices on the SC and the federal bench.

It's a dangerous delusion to think they "don't really mean it". They do and they've been demonstrating it ferociously over the last few years.

[Skidmore]

7. I think the old guard lost control of the political machine.

Bush helped embolden those who were given a nod and a wink and then pushed aside after elections. McCain's choice of Palin put these people forward in a way none of them, even McCain, could have imagined.