Shooting themselves in the foot

The GOP is paying a political price for their culture war assault on womens' health issues.  The "gender gap" has favored Democrats for quite some time, but now it's widening even further in the wake of Rush's attempted shaming of Sandra Fluke, in which he exposed his own leering fantasies, and Their Totalitinesses, the Catholic bishops, who think that religious freedom means that they get to tell women what to do.

What has been the reaction among women, who, by the way, constitute as much as 57% of the electorate?  President Obama now leads Mitt Romney by 9 points, 51-42, in the most recent USA Today poll.

The biggest change came among women under 50. In mid-February, just under half of those voters supported Obama. Now more than six in 10 do while Romney’s support among them has dropped by 14 points, to 30%. The president leads him 2-1 in this group.

Looks like a full-on backfire to me, but, as Napoleon once said, "Never interfere with your opponent when they're in the process of destroying themselves."