Me thinks the lady doth protest too much? Why are you exerting so much effort futilely wiping up the mess these Republican men have created for themselves by this tone-deaf panel?

No one can hear you. It's not like ABC News is going to swoop in and bring your message here to the national platform. The deck is stacked, your shouting into the breeze.

About 7 of the last 10 posts to The Corner are about contraception and religion. No wonder Santorum is in the lead. We are about to go to war with Iran, the country is buried in debt and digging deeper by the minute while no viable candidate has any serious plan to fix it. And here the "flagship" of the conservative movement is mired in inconsequential squabbles over birth control.

The only candidate who has shown the courage to speak the hard truths has been sidelined, mocked and maligned by those whose purported principles he is steadfastly defending. The Tea Party, supposedly a limited government movement rebelling against George W. Bush's and the Republican establishment's overspending, is now rallying behind "compassionate" conservatism's point man in the Senate, a man who brags about his efficient earmarking and his disdain for individualism.

I've considered myself a conservative for most of my life. I've been a constant reader of this blog and NR in print. Never have I felt so alienated and confused. I know there are many people feeling the same, and this election (which Obama will almost certainly win) should be a watershed in terms of dissolving the alliance between libertarians, fiscal conservatives on one side and foreign interventionists and culture warriors on the other. I think it's the best thing for both sides and the country, at least in the long term.

Don't fall for this trap. This is designed to take us away from the argument we are winning.They know they're wrong so they're tossing out anything and everything to distract us. Let it go.

Employer provided health insurance is a costly anachronism. My former employer ended it for Medicare eligible retirees in 2011. In its place, each retiree now receives a yearly lump sum that they can use to buy medical insurance directly. It works well and gives the employee control and personal responsibility over their healthcare costs. Religious institutions, or in fact any business looking to control employee health insurance costs, should consider doing likewise. An additional immediate benefit to the religious institution is that this whole issue of government forced contraceptives coverage is rendered moot.

2 of 10 women doesn't necessarily mean exclusion. Muslims and Jews are a tiny minority and again, of ten people, statistically they would be zero. High degree of education is NOT required for congressional testimony (think actors - heck, think most congresscritters). And since men can be parents, too, it is a little disingenuous to bring up a mutually exclusive analogy of Muslims and Christians.

In short, sir, your logic leaves a great deal to be desired, though it goes well with the impoliteness of your post.

The Democrats are ecstatic now- these types of arguments- e.g.' how can young women enjoy sex so much??!!, and with just mere 'acquaintences''' ! - just drive independent voters away from the republican party.

And it doesn't help that the conservatives making these anti-sex comments tend to be obviously the type of people (slightly nerdy, abit socially awkward, lacking in dating experience) who never had a chance to experience the joy of sex. No offense to J-Lo, who i respect as a commentator, but she is prime example (i used to be one myself, probably still am, so i speak from experience:). It makes the whole argument comical to neutral observers.

You actually believe that a married mother of 4 who is still married to the only man she's ever slept with has never experienced "the joy of sex"?

ROFLOL!!!!!

Like fire, sex can either be a thing of wonder or a thing of horror. The context is everything.

There's nothing "anti-sex" about telling people to build their fires in a properly constructed fireplace rather than just piling wood in the middle of the living room floor, dousing it with gasoline, and striking a match.

"And it doesn't help that the conservatives making these anti-sex comments tend to be obviously the type of people (slightly nerdy, abit socially awkward, lacking in dating experience) who never had a chance to experience the joy of sex."

This kind of juvenile reaching and projection is why the left is no longer taken seriously when they try to explain their positions to those outside of the the left. They come off as middle school kids with incompetent parents who never learned how to talk to people without making utter fools of themselves. The worst part is they seem to think this kind of thing makes them look clever instead of childish, venal, stupid, unreliable, hyperemotional, and prone to being ridiculously hateful at the slightest sign of resistance.

You can't really hurt someone by expelling them from an imaginary clique or by carelessly promoting your own impressive levels of ignorance of life and people. Other people recognize such an obvious fraud almost immediately and discount such opinions as cheap infantile garbage tragically spewing from someone who should be old and sophisticated enough to know better.

So it was radical progressives who destroyed marriage? Then how come the highest divorce rates are in red states?