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I think he finessed that. henceforth, you think they would have pushed back and said we made our point. instead they pushed forward and said let's make this a birth control issue. right? >> right. this is not their point. that was the point of certain church leaders and certain catholics who felt strongly about it. that was their point. but once that accommodation was reached and you had catholic charities and catholic health association applauding it, chris, you saw republicans whose real problem is contraception, not just the religious -- >> how can that be? how can that be a problem for the...

The sexual union should happen. >> where are we going, sherman? all the way back to 1953, debating contraception. >> my view on that is there's a reason why no presidential candidate or president has talked about this issue before, because the church itself has not talked about this. >> i haven't heard a sermon on this since the '50s. >> no. rick santorum's surge is real and now the obama campaign is considering taking him on down the road. they may have to fight this guy come november. they're getting ready. they don't want to get too ready. because in a weird way, i think they want him to ...

>> they're moving away from our leading candidates, santorum and romney, around this issue. and they have to figure out a way to stop the bleeding and retrack the conversation about the economy and other things that women are more concerned about than having a bunch of men sit down and decide what their health issues should be. >> they keep doubling down. >> they want to know about this -- keep people from having birth control as part of their lives. >> right. >> especially in modern day. we all know the situation. i want to go to this. as we pointed yesterday, michael and joan, no women were ...

Santorum is a nominee, that's a good contrast for president obama. >> that's a bonus. >> yeah. >> does rick pick up -- just to make his case, does he pick up the reagan democrats? >> that's the other side of the argument, chris. exactly right. would santorum be a tougher candidate than romney. >> older people once voted democrat are now picking up republican. >> tougher in ohio, pennsylvania, michigan, because he has that cultural down market appeal in a way that romney has proven again and again in the primary he has not. >> who has run the better campaign? santorum has no money, no endorseme...

The window. this situation is a little bit worse than schiavo. at least you had some woman who understood and probably would be with the party's position in terms of wanting to have the family make this choice or that choice. but here, this is much more personal to every woman. and so now you have the party or at least certain voices out there that have moved this off of the conversation that it was, i think, rightly on, on the role of church and state. the freedom of church and religion. now you're talking about the type of course, resource they have. now you need to get off this conversation...