re: #221 Charles Johnson

I’m sort-of-tracking the criticism of Trump on this particular issue on RedState, and (to the extent that RS is representative of the crazy right-wingers who realize that Trump is uber-toxic to their brand) they are fairly open in saying that the problem is that he said it out loud.

E.g.:

Yesterday, Donald Trump made the worst possible hash out of a question on abortion that you could even imagine. He basically made Todd Akin, Richard Mourdock, and Christine O’Donnell look like seasoned veterans in terms of manipulating the media minefield of abortion questions.

The Left is constantly trying to gain advantage on this issue by asking the most difficult questions, and even pretty smart candidates (which Mourdock at least certainly was) can get tripped up.

Emphasis mine. They know full well that the consequence of their desired policy would be to punish women. Note that the question of miscarriage hasn’t even been raised here but it’s an obvious, obvious hammer blow to the feeble “punish the doctors instead” line of obfuscation.