If you want to go to war over that you will lose and lose badly. No military strategist I ever heard of thought Pickett's Charge was a good idea "in principle."
I just found it odd that Michael Barone, a supposed conservative, is attacking Rick on the basis of Griswold, which was pushed through by the same activist Judges who gave us Roe v. Wade. You can argue that states should not ban or limit contraceptives, but there is nothing in the Constitution to say that there is an absolute right to contraceptives, and that they should be in the aisles of every drug store and supermarket.
Actually, I think Rick could make a pretty good case around contraception. Two points immediately spring to mind. One is that Obama is going to force abortificient contraceptives on Catholics and others who think they are wrong, whether they like it or not. That is a violation of religious freedom and the First Amendment. And since when did contraceptives become a “health” issue? If people want them, they can pay for them themselves.
The other is the way these guys have been pushing condoms in our public schools. Do we really want condom dispensing machines in our schools? If people want their kids to have free “protected” sex of all kinds, then they should buy their own condoms and give them to their kids. Why are the public schools encouraging sexual activity from the age of 6 on up? Should taxpayers be funding this sort of thing?
The GOP-e seems to think that these issues are losers. I don’t think so. Of course, the MSM will try to twist it, but they need to be careful or they will expose Obama for the extreme abortion lover that he is. I presume that’s why they didn’t attack Newt when he raised that issue.