>Romney should have spoken up in support for Mourdock and Akin
No. Those two and anyone like them need to be avoided like the plague.
America is running out of voters that support meddling in personal affairs.
As long as taxpayer dollars are funding birth control and abortion its not a personal issue.
Telling proLifers to shut up won’t get that vote either and people who support abortion will also support taxpayer funding of it- not Conservative is that.
Your #40-—absolutely right.These two are exactly the kind that are pointed to as “representative” of what the Republican party stands for, even though they are, were , and continue to be fringe players with their weirdly fundamentalist views on this permanently hot “wedge-issue”.
It’s of course thoroughly dishonest of the Left to bring these two up, but they do it all the time, and for their current purposes, managed to nullify them at least in their local elections.