Carl Bernstein, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine, thinks Republicans need to get over the abortion issue and dismiss “pro-life” as a litmus test for a Republican primary.
“What I’m trying to say is that our politics has been overwhelmed by this issue [for] far too long,” Bernstein said during a Friday appearance on Morning Joe. “We’ve got huge problems in this country [and] the idea that our debate is still going on over abortion, that this is the great issue for this one [Republican] party, is absurd.”
Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough suggested that the Democratic Party “is less giving on the issue of abortion than the Republican Party.”
If the parties get over the abortion issue, perhaps candidates such as Mitt Romney might feel less pressure to profess pro-choice beliefs when campaigning in a state like Massachusetts and to switch to the pro-life camp when running for president as a Republican.
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