There must be SOME advantage the GOP hopes to gain from waging a war on women. What are they hiding?

[CTyankee]

32. There is really no place they can go. With abortion, they made up the term "partial birth

abortion," a total deceit. It worked because it played to the extreme edge of abortion politics, to our detriment once that term was unleashed on the unsuspecting public. Who could be for murdering full term babies?

This is quite different. They are trying to move this to the extreme edge of contraception with the terms "slut" and "prostitute." The problem is that you offend different types of voters, the young woman college age/ starting out professional and the parents of those young women. Hence, President Obama's telling Sandra Fluke to tell her parents he thought they should be proud of her. That was directly aimed at that demographic. You may be conservative on a number of economic issues (which according to Fluke her parents are) but calling their daughter such names is just insane, as a political strategy.

So the question is: to whom does the message on contraception coverage work politically? Once you have lost the quasi-real religious freedom issue (which the RW has) you are left with contraception itself, a stand alone topic. No matter how you look at it, it is a loser, except with a narrow group of religious fanatics.

Now we will see whether this narrow group of religious fanatics, coupled with (and more than likely overlapping) racists who can't stand the idea of a black president will overcome politically a coalition of Dems and moderate Independents in swing states. Unless there is a very big economic downturn or some devastating foreign policy turn of events, this election is the Dems to lose...the Republicans certainly can't win...