Posted on 02/09/2012 8:11:47 AM PST by Paladins Prayer
It’s ironic that it is Barack Obama now ramming a contraception policy down Catholics’ and other Americans’ throats. Little more than a month ago, former Clinton operative George Stephanopoulos spent 10 minutes in a Republican debate grilling presidential contenders Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney on, of all things, contraception.
What inspired the bizarre questions? First, Santorum is a practicing Catholic who doesn’t believe in the use of artificial birth control. Second, responding to a query from ABC’s Jake Tapper about a week prior to the debate, Santorum reiterated a constitutional fact: States have a right to ban contraception should they so choose.
To place the matter in further perspective for Tapper, Santorum gave the example of the Texas sodomy law overturned by the Supreme Court. Santorum said that he personally wouldn’t support the law, but nonetheless, states have a right to pass such legislation. He then criticized the judicial activism that overturns these laws and pointed out that, if the people find such a law unjust, the proper way to seek redress is through their state legislatures. This, my friends, is Constitutionalism 101.
For having the temerity to grasp and explain the supreme law of our land, Santorum was portrayed as the second coming of Tomás de Torquemada.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
I’m sure Obama always finishes first, explaining Michelle’s perpetual pyspepsia. He rushes through a distasteful task.
There’s also the point that people who follow the rules are often sideswiped by those who are willing to do whatever it takes to achieve their goals.
Not that we need to disregard the rules, but we need to not be surprised when they don’t, and respond accordingly.
I strongly wish you hadn’t said that. I did not want that thought in my head.
I do not think it is ironic at all. I think it is an intentional and calculated strategy to move the national debate from jobs, unemployment and the economy to religion and birth control (aka as the liberals "reproductive rights").
Debate about jobs and the economy are losers for Obama - he can only spin the hard facts so much and the people hurt by his economic policies cross all demographic lines. The debate is mostly about facts.
But by moving the debate to religion and "reproductive rights" he rallies his liberal base and moves the discussion from debate over facts to emotional reaction to two of the liberals favorite social/emotional issues.
Anyone who thinks this attack on the church isn't a strategy that was completely thought out in advance has forgotten the history of this administration. Obama has some very devious but effective strategizers among his supporters - after all, they got him elected and have kept his popularity quite high in spite of his dismal performance.
Leftists don't understand this concept at all. If they don't like something, it must be insulted, outlawed, rammed into the ground, and obliterated from the face of the Earth.
Wait until November!
Very good article.
Duke is fast becoming one of my favorite columnists.
His January 31 article about the language of the left and right is one of the best I’ve read in a while.
I’m sorry.
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