The Republican Nomination For President: The Race For The Race For The White House

y Paul Kane, Monday, February 27, 11:29 AM

Despite the extraordinary amounts of time, money and political energy being expended by both sides, the 2012 elections are unlikely to resolve the partisan gridlock and paralysis that have defined Capitol Hill during the past year.

A key reason is that the Senate, which will provide some of the most competitive and expensive contests on the election calendar, is likely to function, or not, in January 2013 the way it does now, regardless of which party holds the majority. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are expected to make the sort of sweeping gains at the polls that are necessary to take effective control of the chamber, where work has been hobbled by a constant flow of filibusters and other political and procedural gimmicks.

It'll probably require and new party and a revolution. What we have now stinks!

Our biggest challenge is our economy and jobs, and the candidates are talking about contraception! God, how did we get this far?

"I’m not for the bill," Romney told an Ohio news station on Wednesday, according to The New York Times. "The idea of presidential candidates getting into questions about contraception within a relationship between a man and a women, husband and wife, I’m not going there."

Now, championing someone's private right contraception isn't a bad thing, but Mitt wasn't exactly towing the party line. The Times' Michael Barbaro and Erik Eckholm note that his comments raised "furor" and report that "Mr. Romney and his aides quickly corrected his remarks, saying he strongly supports the Senate amendment, and had not properly understood the question."

I agree, but I also LOVE it.

I'm so glad that the Republicans are picking this hill to die on.

Contraception?? Really?

Oh why not, just because it may rain tomorrow does not mean you can't enjoy the sunshine today.

But yeah, it probably will be close, the country is pretty well evenly divided and in the end, the independents will probably be the deciding factor. From all indicated polls, on this contraceptive issue, they favor people having the right to decide for themselves on the moral issue of contraceptives. But its a long way until the general election and other topics might come up. (please) I am just on pins and needles on the whether the Blunt bill will pass in the senate. (allowed to talk about here as this thread has been handed over so to speak.)

Just heard its been defeated. great. 51 to 48

I just wonder how many women are still going to vote for the very people who's trying to control their bodies?

Conservative Audience Boos Birth Control During Republican Presidential Debate
February 23, 2012
By Stephen D. Foster Jr.


Republicans across the country are waging war against women’s reproductive rights and GOP voters approve. During the Republican debate in Arizona on Wednesday evening, CNN’s John King brought up birth control, drawing the ire of the audience who booed loudly. The candidates on stage used the opportunity to launch into a broad attack on birth control measures, Planned Parenthood, single parents, and President Obama.

GINGRICH: “Not once did anybody in the elite media ask why Barack Obama voted in favor of legalizing infanticide.”

ROMNEY: “I don’t think we’ve seen in the history of this country the kind of attack on religious conscience, religious freedom, religious tolerance that we’ve seen under Barack Obama.”

SANTORUM: “We have a society… the increasing number of teens being born out-of-wedlock in America, teens who are sexually active. The left gets so upset: ‘Oh, look at him talking about these things.’ Here is the difference between me and the left — and they don’t get this — just because I’m talking about it doesn’t mean I want a government program to fix it. That’s what they do. That’s not what we do.”

ROMNEY: “You ask yourself, how are we going to have a society in the future? Because these kids are raised in poverty in many cases. They are in abusive settings. And when we have programs that say we are going to teach abstinence in schools, the liberals go crazy and try and stop us from doing that.”

GINGRICH: “When you have government as the central provider of services, you inevitably move towards tyranny. I think this is true whether it’s Romneycare or it’s Obamacare.”

PAUL: “If you voted for Planned Parenthood like the senator has, you voted for birth control pills. And you literally — because funds are fungible — you literally vote for abortion. Planned Parenthood should get nothing.”

Paul doesn't know or realize that abortioin at Planned Parenthood is a very small percentage of their services.

SANTORUM: “I said, ‘Well, if you’re going to have Title X funding then we’re going to create something called Title XX, which is going to provide funding for abstinence based programs. I would say that I’ve always been very public, that as president of the United States, I will defund Planned Parenthood. I will not sign any appropriations bill that funds Planned Parenthood.”