Buchanan To Republicans: You’re Overeaching On Birth Control

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Buchanan To Republicans: You’re Overeaching On Birth Control
By Amanda Peterson Beadle on Feb 24, 2012 at 11:53 am

<..> On C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, Buchanan described the debate over contraception as “beyond the political realm”:

I think if you get down into where [Santorum's] been discussing it on the merits and demerits of contraception…that’s a moral issue. [...] We talked about that in college endlessly, but I think you move into an area where people don’t understand yet and where it’s beyond the political realm. And I think that’s where Santorum has gone and gotten himself. He’s gotten himself tied up in some of these arguments, and I don’t think he’s handled them with clarity.

<..> When even Buchanan, who has his own history of extreme opinions, thinks it’s a wise move to back away from an anti-abortion measure, social conservatives have gone too far in their opposition to women’s health.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/02/...raception/

Pat Buchanan shows up like a lost penny.

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In taking the GOP field, and Santorum in particular, to task over their overreach in the birth control issue Pat exposes himself as out-of-touch.

Quote:I think you move into an area where people don’t understand yet and where it’s beyond the political realm.

Don't understand yet? Beyond the political realm?

Pat, listen up, your an anachronism. Out of place in time. The medical world and society in general have. long ago, accepted both the medical, social and economic benefits of birth control medications as an important part of family and economic planning as well as a treatment for many health issues for women.

To say that people "don't understand yet" is classic projection. People heard your arguments for most of the 20th century and now into this one and they have rejected those arguments. You need to understand that fact.

Beyond the political realm? What realm would you prefer? Your only argument is not that your allies are wrong on the issue, it is that they are allowing the public at large see your true stripes by having the light shown on them. Where they erred, in your opinion, is in exposing what should have been kept in "quiet rooms" until it was too late for reasonable people to reject your agenda. What you want, because your ideas are old, tired and wrong, is to have them enacted on stealth and become a "fait accompli".

That is why your allies in states like Ohio, Wisconsin and Virginia moved so fast after the wave elections in 2010. They knew their plans couldn't stand the light of day but thought that once enacted into law the opposition would be hamstrung, unable to fight back. Too bad for you that people woke up.