Meanwhile, President Barack Obama withstood a barrage of criticism by the Catholic Bishops the past few weeks over this issue — and the New York Times reports today that his popularity rating has reached the critical 50-percent mark.
The rise in his polling numbers primarily reflects the economy. However, it also shows the impotence of the Catholic bishops and how their campaign against women has backfired terribly. If Rick Santorum gets the nomination, look for a major backlash from women against the GOP and the biggest gender gap in the modern history of presidential politics.
Combine these factors with Republican Big Government overreaches on issues that affect women — such as Virginia’s draconian and intrusive ultrasound abortion bill that just passed.
The GOP’s attack on women, the intransigent extremism of the Catholic bishops, and Santorum’s Bronze Age mentality — may spell a landslide for the ever-more-popular President Obama.
I do hope Santorum gets the nomination – It will destroy the GOP and any hope they have of government in the near future.
Here’s to hoping Santorum gets the nomination.
The Dems thought in 2008 that they were guaranteed hegemony on the basis of that landslide, and a scant 2 years later the bottom fell out. We need people who are willing to do good for the public at large, not just a bunch of arrogant, mindless cheerleaders who are beholden to lobbyists. Right now the GOP looks insane by comparison to the Dems, but that doesn’t mean that all of their concerns are follies. We need politicians who can work together to fix the underlying structural faults within our economy. If we don’t, then we will continue to suffer this ineffectual see-sawing of power between elections until we are eclipsed by countries whose leadership doesn’t have its head up its collective a*s.
Santorum doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting the nomination. The Mittster and his Mariott/ Bain multimillionaire supporters will give us a long, mendacious and nasty summer and fall. In this country of religious ignoramuses and know-nothings, I have no doubt money is the deciding factor.
Sorry to be so cynical.
Paul, if money were the sole deciding factor Santorum wouldn’t be where he is now. He has a great shot at winning the nomination and while part of me wants to see that I’m not a gambler and I wouldn’t want to take the small risk that he might actually beat Obama – unlikely but as the Republican primaries have shown anything can happen.
I guess the Catholic church hasn’t gotten the memo that it’s the 21st century, not the 11th. Maybe we can start the “atomic number movement” as Santorium sounds like he belongs on the periodic table.
The fact he opposes ultrasound imaging as defective fetuses are more likely to be aborted, he proved “pro-life” is morally bankrupt as it’s pro-suffering.