Akin and Mourdock could have effected change had they curbed their tongues and actually been elected, but they had to blow their load so to speak, by being single issue purists.
There was no need for them to put their core values aside, they just needed to not scare people away by being extreme on what quite frankly should be states rights matters.
They should have just argued that it’s a states rights matter.
They would have at least moved the ball.
Now they, along with the rest of us are going to be paying for abortion and BC at a federal level.
How was that helpful to their core values?
They and their beliefs are not the problem.
>> “How was that helpful to their core values?” <<
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Christ said “Let your yea be yea, and your nay be nay.