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newyorker: Here Comes the Culture War! The clearest set of views on the Republican side belongs to Santorum. You may, as I do, find those views (on gay rights, for starters) anathema and his rhetoric abhorrent, but he is, it must be conceded, consistent. He is, alas, who he is. Then there is Romney, who, despite his losses this week is still the odds-on favorite to win the nomination; once again, he betrays himself as utterly devoid of principle. He is a kind of moral and political vacuum, and the only convincing thing about him is that he wants very much to be President of the United States. On whose side, in defense of what—all that seems beside the point. He is a vaporous and shifting mirage. In 1994, in the Massachusetts Senate race, Romney tried to position himself to Edward Kennedy’s left on gay and lesbian issues and was almost ferociously pro-choice; he now declares himself prepared to support, in effect, a constitutional ban on gay marriage and vows to appoint Supreme Court Justices who would join Scalia, Thomas, and Alito on the right. (How can you possibly believe in a candidate who reverses himself, in late middle age, on an issue as elemental as abortion when it is so plain it is done for electoral advantage?) As governor, Romney never spoke out about state law requiring health-care plans to provide for contraception and, in 2005, he even required hospitals, Catholic-run hospitals included, to provide morning-after pills to rape victims; now he is accusing the President of waging war on faith. - In today’s Daily Comment, David Remnick writes about the GOP culture war: http://nyr.kr/ylTurW

newyorker:

Here Comes the Culture War!

The clearest set of views on the Republican side belongs to Santorum. You may, as I do, find those views (on gay rights, for starters) anathema and his rhetoric abhorrent, but he is, it must be conceded, consistent. He is, alas, who he is.

Then there is Romney, who, despite his losses this week is still the odds-on favorite to win the nomination; once again, he betrays himself as utterly devoid of principle. He is a kind of moral and political vacuum, and the only convincing thing about him is that he wants very much to be President of the United States. On whose side, in defense of what—all that seems beside the point. He is a vaporous and shifting mirage. In 1994, in the Massachusetts Senate race, Romney tried to position himself to Edward Kennedy’s left on gay and lesbian issues and was almost ferociously pro-choice; he now declares himself prepared to support, in effect, a constitutional ban on gay marriage and vows to appoint Supreme Court Justices who would join Scalia, Thomas, and Alito on the right. (How can you possibly believe in a candidate who reverses himself, in late middle age, on an issue as elemental as abortion when it is so plain it is done for electoral advantage?) As governor, Romney never spoke out about state law requiring health-care plans to provide for contraception and, in 2005, he even required hospitals, Catholic-run hospitals included, to provide morning-after pills to rape victims; now he is accusing the President of waging war on faith.

- In today’s Daily Comment, David Remnick writes about the GOP culture war: http://nyr.kr/ylTurW

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    This is what I’ve been talking about. Everything is done for votes instead of principle.
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