The Contraception Fight May Cost The GOP The White House and The Senate [View all]

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Elizabeth Warren’s campaign has already issued a statement tying Senator Brown to the GOP presidential contenders, stating: “Sen. Brown took sides with Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and the right wing of his party against the people of Massachusetts, who in tough economic times rely on insurance to get the healthcare they need,” while New York Senator Chuck Schumer questioned Brown’s moderate credentials, saying “Scott Brown’s trying to portray himself as a moderate? Well, this vote shows he’s not very moderate.”

Put simply, voting in favor of an amendment that – as Harry Reid put it — had been hijacked by the “extreme ideological” element of the right, will make any argument that Scott Brown or Mitt Romney might have that they are in fact social moderates a much more difficult position to substantiate.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/dougschoen/2012/03/02/the-contraception-fight-may-cost-the-gop-the-white-house-and-the-senate/