We cats have never been sure that Pundit World ever had a good read on the 2014 midterms — mostly because the elections are, let's face it, unreadable.
We've gone from an Obamacare-inspired Republican "wave" (remember that?) to "Obamacare doesn't matter" to foreign policy butting in to Democrats springing back to Republicans rising again. And who knows how many more permutations we'll see between now and Election Day?
But just for the sake of it, let's consider for a moment that Democratic seats like Tom Harkin's and Mark Udall's go Republican, and Mitch McConnell becomes Majority Leader of the Senate. Aside from Joe Biden suddenly needing to worry about the state of White House security, what could that mean for the country?
One word keeps popping into our heads: Personhood.
That's because Republican candidates everywhere are engaged in a series of desperate and specious "moves to the middle." Knowing that they can't get elected if they say that fetuses have more rights than born, grown women, they are soft-pedaling, parsing or camouflaging their views — or, in "Transvaginal Barb" Comstock's case, running away from the media to avoid talking about them altogether.
So here's the question for, say, GOP candidate Joni Ernst and GOP candidate Cory Gardner. Voters in Iowa and Colorado need to ask it — on the record, on the radio, on camera — today, and every day, between now and November 4.
"Will you pledge now that — when you arrive in the Senate as a member of the newly elected Republican majority — you will buck your leadership and refuse to vote 'yes' on a personhood amendment?"
And if they won't answer, ask again. If they still won't answer — ask why not. And keep asking. We cats PURR.
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