I have been puzzled over President Obama's stance on this whole birth control issue.
Why bring it to the forefront now? -
Was it a terrible mistake on his part? -
My guess is no mistake - and perfect timing on the President's part.
He is boxing in the "uber" right conservatives at CPAC. Right now Romney, Gingrich and Santorum cannot get their anti birth control stance far right enough. Their speeches, wrapping themselves up in the hate of their CPAC audiences cannot get base enough.
The issue for the President has been solved very nicely - but the 3 GOP stooges are now stuck with their rhetoric cutting down health care for women. It will not matter that they will claim that it was about freedom, churches -- while all women know that those 3 just chose to cut the women off -- their choice -- and it was the women that was dispensable for them.
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