{"id":26214,"date":"2012-02-08T14:27:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T21:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/is-this-the-battle-that-the-gop-wants-to-fight-this-year.html"},"modified":"2012-02-10T22:45:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T05:45:41","slug":"is-this-the-battle-that-the-gop-wants-to-fight-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/is-this-the-battle-that-the-gop-wants-to-fight-this-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Is this the battle that the GOP wants to fight this year?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There'd been some indications that the whole culture wars \/ social conservatism thing was supposed to go a bit into the background this election cycle. Instead, it was all going to be about the economy for the GOP.<\/p>\n

But … the economy's actually, slowly, improving. And as the string of zany challengers to Mitt Romney have shown, there's still a very active, vocal fringe of the GOP base (the types the come out for caucuses and primaries) who want to fight that battle.<\/p>\n

But is that how they can actually win the general election? Some Republicans are warning that getting all fired up about denying contraception coverage in the name of religion isn't the way to win in November. #ddtb<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Talking Points Memo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Pro-choice Republicans are begging their party to drop fight over contraception before it turns into a disaster:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPro-choice Republicans are begging their party to drop this fight over contraception before it\u2019s too late. Turning to a discussion about access to birth control will be nothing short of a disaster, th…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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There'd been some indications that the whole culture wars \/ social conservatism thing was supposed to go a bit into the background this election cycle. Instead, it was all going to be about the economy for the GOP. But … the economy's actually, slowly, improving. And as the string of zany challengers to Mitt Romney … Continue reading “Is this the battle that the GOP wants to fight this year?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99,134],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","category-health-care","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130737,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/23\/just-lie-back-close-your-eyes-and-think-of-reagan.html","url_meta":{"origin":26214,"position":0},"title":""Just lie back, close your eyes, and think of Reagan"","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 23-May-16 9:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Sen. 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