[sickoflibs]

RE :” The recent Obama mandate for universal birth control gave the Republicans an opportunity to fight for individual liberty — and they missed it by a mile. Instead of attacking government-imposed health care as a violation of liberty, they only selected a minute fraction of the leviathan and subjected it to very narrow criteria. This was an opportunity to aim for the heart of ObamaCare, but critics asked for only a minor adjustment — and that's all they got.”

Republicans in my opinion jumped on the Catholic Birth control mandate issue specifically because they saw what they thought was an opening in getting masses of Catholics behind them in opposing Obama-care as a religous liberty issue. The jury is still out but it looks like Republicans could end up stuck in a trap alone being portrayed as taking away women's contraceptives, which is a great campaign issue for Dems. Where are the Catholic Religious liberty Tea party rallies Bishops? You ever want support again?

Similarly they selected the personal mandates part of Obama-care because it looked like low lying fruit.

RE : “The recent uproar by conservatives gives the impression that only the religious have rights. How about the rest of us? What if an agnostic objects to elements of government laws on principle or, perhaps, merely on a prudential basis? There was an opportunity to put the whole government-run health care system in the cross-hairs. A passionate defense of individual rights could have and should have been the emphasis. But this wasn't important to conservatives. What did they do instead?”

I made the same point many times. Why can I be forced to buy ‘insurance’ (its not really insurance) that gives benefits that are of absolutely no use to me at all and are targeted to those who Dems think will swing the election, just because I am not part of a church business wise?

Alternatively, politicians forcing employers to give specific voters goodies while claiming it cost nothing to anyone, and claiming it's part of those specific voters rights, is a very powerful political lure to get votes.

[Gilbo_3]

Similarly they selected the personal mandates part of Obama-care because it looked like low lying fruit.

if i actually believed that the other wing of the tyranny-saurus bird, known as the rino-o-p wasnt cheering the power of bambamcare, id believe that they were 'stupid' and 'inept' in their pitiful shot across the bow...

allowing all the outrageous crap in this *law* and its edicts, while channeling ALL of their energy into 'contraception' is a joke...

raw power, that of *legal* life and death of both the unborn, and eventually the 'undesirables' of all ages is the goal of politics these days...

[LMAO]

You said....
“Alternatively, politicians forcing employers to give specific voters goodies while claiming it cost nothing to anyone, and claiming it’s part of those specific voters rights, is a very powerful political lure to get votes.”

And difficult for any politician to oppose

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks sickoflibs