For years, many liberals have tried to reconcile the notion of abortion and why, for instance, at 19 weeks the procedure was legal, but at 20 it wasn't. We may have supported it, but we weren't comfortable. Maybe Alan Simpson, who is usually crazier than a 6-year-old at Chuck E. Cheese, was right about how it's an issue on which men shouldn't even have a vote. But what we have discovered--and suspected all along--was that for those in the pro-life camp, the issue wasn't just about choice. It was part of a larger agenda, an agenda that included control. It was about contraception; it was about sex; it was about women with hyphenated last names; it encompassed everything from block grants, to tax cuts for the rich, to de-funding Medicare and Social Security, to a lemmings-like adherence to the 10th Amendment; mostly, it was about an America and a Democracy the GOP only wanted to share if you had the money, were Christian (or at least acceded to its domain over the country), and drank from the Kool-Aid.  

The GOP is a a CPAC convention away from issuing Hijabs to women and NBC's David Gregory is still giving Santorum the last word. Come November, the best outcome will not be that Obama wins, but that this virulent strain in American politics loses.